AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPEAKING EXERCISES IN THE 11TH GRADE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ACCORDING TO THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

Abstract

Well-written textbooks help teachers organize their lessons and inspire students affecting their destinies and guide them through linguistic, cultural, and communicative complexities. Fluency in a language and global relationships are fostered and as a result 21st-century talents empower students to be adaptive architects of tomorrow's innovations, competent at navigating the changing terrains of education, job, and living with adaptation, ingenuity, and collaboration. This study examines how the “Spice Up” textbook for 11th-graders in Turkish public schools incorporates 21st-century skills through its speaking activities. The multidimensional character of 21st-century abilities and implicit links between these activities and their outcomes are examined within this study. The qualitative study uses document analysis to get data from the textbook. The findings obtained show that 11th-grade textbook speaking tasks largely match 21st-century skills. Communication is stressed most in the activities, whereas technology use is least.