Targeting communicative performance in national English education program- a supplementary book for the 9th and 10th graders

This thesis investigates the targeting of Communicative Performance in the NationalEnglish Education Program and presents a supplementary textbook for 9th and 10thgraders. The purpose of this study is to understand the extent to which developing thespeaking, listening, reading, and writing skills of students through prepared activitiesmotivates the teacher and students in English language teaching; to explore the kinds ofmaterials to be used in a communicative language class; to prepare a checklist based on?Task-based and Communicative Language Teaching, as well as Whole LanguageInstruction and four skills-based teaching methods adopted world-wide. Theapplications are for Public School 9th and 10th graders, which correspond to the A1 andB2 levels prescribed by the European Language Portfolio.The checklist will be analyzed by experts, and later on, a suggested activity bookletwhich has been prepared for use in public schools of the National Education will bepresented; and thanks to the checklist, the relevant National Education books shall beevaluated, and an activity book to accompany the National Education coursebook shallbe prepared in accordance with this information and needs.