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Arts and crafts denote to a wide range of activities concerning to make things with one's own hands, in other perspectives. All the handiworks based upon making attractive and useful things by hand are given the names as arts and crafts. EFL learners enjoy arts and crafts as due to these activities, they may learn skills such as colouring, paintings, making crafted items or making things (Prins, 2008). Moreover, Prins (2008) indicates that arts and crafts are a form of expression or an aptitude to do human doings and the products of these events, typically relating to creative or practical skills. Picture making, paintings, sculptures, music, dance, drama, and visual arts are included in this field. In the course of teaching/learning process of L2, it is very significant to have learners motivated with the things they love, and they like to do, they requisite to have the selfassurance and low nervousness and anxiety so that they have better results and not to produce any perceptual barrier which will upset them in their future. Such kind of approach was propagated by Stephen Krashen`s Affective Filter hypothesis. Krashen (1982) claims that foreign language learning should occur in an anxiety-free situation. He asserts that anxiety produces an emotive difficulty that restricts the normal ability to learn languages. Krashen states this barrier as an ‘Affective Filter’. In this regard, it is the duty of teachers to mitigate their learners` this state of affairs as much as they can do by developing program based activities that involve their attention and concentration to encourage them to communicate in the target language and facilitate them to feel efficacious. This ‘Affective Filter’ hypothesis speculates the concept of an effective filter which is a mental barrier that stops the learners from entirely consuming the understandable response they obtain for the target language learning. Abstract: The purpose of the current study is exploring and comparing the representation style of arts & crafts which is projected in the local and foreign textbooks in Pakistani context at primary level. The content analysis was employed to find out percentages of categories and sub categories of reading passages and exercises of the prescribed English textbooks in this research. For relevant data collection an eclectic model was devised as some of the major categories with slight modification were taken from Stern, H.H. (1983) model. The analysis of the two selected textbooks revealed that the Oxford textbook tends to promote activities based on arts and crafts as they help the child to unfold his/her creativity, intelligence and sense of beauty and aesthetics. They help to enjoy the pleasure creativity and beauty through the study of music, pictures/paintings and sculptures. On the contrary the PTB textbook plays an inactive role as it offers insufficient instructional material to its learners in this indispensable area of learning. and activate their artistic talent.

Exploring the Role of Arts & Crafts Projected in Local and Foreign English Textbooks in Pakistani Context at Primary Level