Abstract

Coursebook plays an important role in English language teaching. It not only offers teacher curriculum aims and contents, but also guides teacher's teaching and students' learning. Nowadays, the wealth of published materials for English language teaching available on the market makes selecting the right coursebook a challenging task. So to make effective evaluation on coursebook depending on certain evaluation criteria is of essential importance. Firstly this paper makes a brief introduction of the evaluated coursebook and the evaluation criteria. Then it makes evaluation on four skills of Unit 7 in the coursebook. Lastly it makes a conclusion on the evaluation.

Highlights

  • The evaluated coursebook I chose is 9th Grade English coursebook published by People’s Education Press (PEP), which is widely used by many provinces and schools

  • Evaluation Questions Q1 What kind of listening material is contained in the course? In the Unit 7, all listening activities play a secondary role compared with speaking

  • From what we have discussed above, I make a conclusion about how to choose a coursebook from skills as following: Firstly, the coursebook teacher chose should provide skill works which can equip students to use language in real situations

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Summary

The Evaluated Coursebook

The evaluated coursebook I chose is 9th Grade English coursebook published by People’s Education Press (PEP), which is widely used by many provinces and schools. This coursebook has 15 units in total. Each unit consists of four parts——Section A, Section B, Self-check and Reading material. I chose Unit 7 Where would you like to visit? To evaluate from four skills——listening, speaking, reading and writing. Through the evaluation on the skills of this unit, I can have a general understanding of the book’s advantages and disadvantages in compiling language skills

The Evaluation Criteria Used in the Paper
A General Evaluation on Four Skills
Evaluation on Listening
Evaluation on Speaking
Evaluation on Reading
Evaluation on Writing
Conclusion

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