Implementation of the Principles of CBA for the Teaching of English in the Algerian Middle Schools An Analysis of Spotlight on English and My Book of English

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2017-06

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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou

Abstract

The present dissertation attempts to investigate the implementation of the principles of Competency-Based Approach on the teaching of English in the Algerian middle school textbooks of first year learners, namely Spotlight on English issued in 2003 and My Book of English that is issued in 2016. It checks whether the principles of CBA as concerns the raise of competencies and the use of the English language in real life situations are integrated in the two textbooks. It bases on the analysis of Spotlight on English and My Book of English at the level of content, design as well as visuals. For the sake of collecting data about the issue addressed, we relied on two different qualitative and quantitative research techniques namely: a checklist of cunningsworth offered in his book titled ‘Choosing Your Coursebook’(1995) and a Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis. A further dimension of this study deals with drawing a comparison between the materials under scope. Our research findings reveal that the two textbooks implement the principles of CBA. Additionally, the comparison of these results reveals that Spotlight on English and My Book of English share similarities as well as differences in the way that, they are both made up of activities and follow the same way in dividing the sequences, but they are different in the way of presenting the activities are and in the sections they contain…etc. The Social Semiotics Multimodal Analysis reveals that even the two textbooks are multimodal, but the new generation which means the new textbook is the one that gives more prominence to the visual resource than the previous textbook. The research comes out with a conclusion which exposes the implementation of the types of competencies of CBA which are: interacting orally in English, interpret visual, verbal and non-verbal text and produce visual, verbal and non-verbal in the two textbooks. Besides, it highlights the importance of combining the linguistic and visual modes to reinforce and add meaning

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70p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)

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Competency-Based Approach, Competency, Textbooks

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Linguistique Appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale