Dr. Shree Deepa works with the University of Hyderabad.

English Text books are indispensable entities in the language class room. Newspapers are mere ‘aids’ or additional decorative material. Text books are printed and published in different editions and remain in print for years. One edition of the text book lasts for a particular period of time and to introduce new and spanking information is almost impossible and the syllabus designers need to wait to incorporate the latest notes.  The situation hard to ignore is that all the prescribed text books are a collection of prose, short stories and some poetry. The skills of the language are taught drawing from these selected texts. These texts are often battered through the years and the ‘experienced’ teacher would have usually lost the interest in ‘teaching’ from such a text. The teaching process in such a class room is often monotonous and dull bereft of life. (more…)