AN EVALUATION OF THE TEACHING OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS OF ENGLISH AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL IN BANGLADESH: CURRENT PRACTICE AND PROSPECT OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

Teaching is a matter of passion. A teacher is not only a guide but also a facilitator, role model, information provider, resource developer, planner and assessor. A good teacher is more than a mere lecturer. So the research paper focuses on the teaching part of the two important parts of learning a foreign or second language; reading and writing. This study investigates an important area of English language teaching and the importance of the innovative techniques followed by the teachers in Bangladeshi context. It examines how the innovative techniques nurture the student’s motivation towards foreign language learning, the level of improvement learners are receiving at their primary level of education, the developing syllabus and curriculum followed by the teachers as facilitators in Bangladesh. The study discusses the recent developments in reading and writing pedagogy. It also presents an evaluation of teaching reading and writing skills through an empirical study. The empirical investigation examines whether the innovative techniques are adopted in the reading and writing pedagogy in teaching reading and writing in Bangladesh or not. The study includes students’ and teachers’ questionnaire survey, students and teachers’ interview, classroom observation and administering reading and writing syllabus.