Criteria for Coursebook Assessment

        

CRITERIA FOR COURSEBOOK ASSESSMENT
Criterion	Importance
Objectives explicitly laid out in an introduction, and implemented in the Material	√
Approach educationally and socially acceptable to target community	√
Clear attractive layout; print easy to read	√√
Appropriate visual materials available	√√
Interesting topics and tasks	√√
Varied topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learners levels, learning styles, interests, etc.	√
Clear instructions	√√
Systematic coverage of syllabus	√
Content clearly organized and graded (sequenced by difficulty)	X
Periodic review and test sections	X
Plenty of authentic language	√
Good pronunciation explanation and practice	X
Good vocabulary explanation and practice	√
Good grammar presentation and practice	√
Fluency practice in all four skills	√√
Encourages learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent in their learning	√
Adequate guidance for the teacher; not too heavy preparation load	√
Audio cassettes	?
Readily available locally	√

Reflection

In our point of view, the Global English book it is a very organized book respect to the topics and skills. During our evaluation, we found that the book have interactive activities, easy to work for the students and also for the teacher. However, this book does not have phonetics. This is a problem because the students will not know how to pronounce a word. Another problem that we  found was the lack of sentence structure (explanations) and finally, for listening activities the teacher have to search some audios or videos because the book has not any CD.

In other words, this book is a good tool for a language teaching, however the topics where does not exist depends on the teacher, but  think that this is not a big problem and it is easy to solve.