ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS IN TERMS OF TRANSVERSAL SKILLS

Abstract

In Europe in the second half of the 20th century, events such as radical economic and social change, globalisation and its expression in culture, politics, the economy and the environment, and progress in scientific and information technology had an impact on education. At school, today's students must be taught such knowledge and skills so that they can survive and be successful in the changing 21st century. Preparing students for life and work is in the spotlight in 21st-century education. The aim of the study is to explore and analyse the development of transversal skills in English language textbooks and to explore the possibilities in order to evaluate English language textbooks in terms of transversal skills. In this research, five English textbooks for 1st-3rd grade were analysed. Qualitative research, descriptive research and content analysis were used in this research. The author reveals that in the latest English textbooks, issued in 2017 and 2018, there are significantly more tasks, thus creating transversal skills for students. In turn, older English textbooks, issued in 2013, lack tasks based on a transversal skills approach. The result of this study shows which English textbooks of the five the author of this study recommends using at school in terms of their transversal skills. From this study, the author has created a recommended checklist for teachers in order to analyse foreign language textbooks in terms of communicative skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking and creativity skills.