Textbook Evaluation: Vocabulary Development in My Book of English
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Date
2018-09
Authors
Nabi, Souhila
Oualmi, Sara
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Publisher
Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present research work is an attempt to evaluate an English textbook used in the
Algerian middle school entitled My Book of English, the focus being on vocabulary
development. Throughout the research work, we have tried to find out whether the
rubrics devoted to vocabulary development in the textbook comply with the techniques
and strategies put forward by applied linguistics and EFL teaching. To reach our
purpose and carry out our research, we have relied on Paul Nation’s (2001) approach
to vocabulary learning. This theory is based on three major strategies for leaning
vocabulary: planning, source and process.Our analytic categories are borrowed from
Alan Cunningsworth’s checklist for evaluating a textbook, since a checklist is one of
the most common instruments used in textbook evaluation. Our study corpus consists
of the sections and rubrics that concern vocabulary development in the textbook under
scrutiny. For the sake of analyzing the data, we have made use of a mixed-method
research, a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as a
descriptive analytical method which is content analysis for the interpretation of the
results
Description
54p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
vocabulary development, textbook evaluation, strategies, techniques.
Citation
Linguistique appliquée et sémiotique sociale