The Content Analysis of the English Text-General Certificate English

Abstract

The O level schools in Pakistan prepare students for General Certificate English of Cambridge. These schools are popular to create competent, resourceful and creative students in entirely different cultures of the world. The O level qualified students are comparatively successful in getting elevated positions in service and turnout to be more resourceful professionals in their future enterprise. The prominence of O level education is by virtue of its well-defined content-based books and updated assessment and evaluation system. In view of the pivotal role played by O level textbooks the researcher is interested to analyze General Certificate English (Textbook) as a main corpus, and will assess its overall worth for second language learners. The main content areas of the text under focus are: cultural input, range of study skills contents, vocabulary criteria and the themes and topics. The research attempts to analyze how given contents introduced into the book help out non-natives to develop their language for academic and professional needs in Pakistani context and provides suitable recommendations.