Evaluating ‘English Language Teaching’, an ELT training textbook in use on the second-year pre-service B. Ed course, Yangon Institute of Education, Myanmar

Abstract

With the increase in numbers of students learning English due to its status as a global language, English language teaching (ELT) and ELT teacher education have become engaging areas of interest for many scholars and researchers. However, despite growth in the literature on ELT teacher education, a systematic evaluation of ELT teacher training materials seems to have been ignored. This research study was carried out to evaluate the ELT teacher training materials in use at public teacher training institutions in Myanmar, and includes a document analysis, where the textbook in question is analysed and a questionnaire survey to find out the opinions of the textbook users. The research indicated that the textbook reflected neither widely accepted principles and practices of teacher learning nor those of language learning, revealing that there was a need to update and upgrade the textbook.