Teaching ELT Course Materials at Tertiary Level: Suitability and Challenges

Abstract

Recently, students are flocking in a big number for job-oriented courses in different private universities in Bangladesh, and they need to take Basic English and Communicative courses in the very beginning of the semesters. Even after taking these courses, the reality check investigation of the standard of English of the students of different private universities tells a different story. The university authority concerned grapples with this problem, and has taken steps to address the new realities; one of them is the design of course materials even though ELT course books and materials are in rampant in the market with the time of globalization in Bangladesh. The present study takes a research-study of a private university in Bangladesh, and demonstrates that a book entitled as “Complied English Course Book” brought to the English Language Institute with concentrated focus on four language skills, following exercise-based stress, through communicate approach proves to be successful in a greater way.