Evaluating language material

MID-TERM ASSESSMENT ON IC ON FLT:
“EVALUATING LANGUAGE MATERIAL”

Group 2021 Students name
Date_______ Students mark________
Write a report of about 400 words based on the following:
Choose a piece of teaching material (1 unit) on all aspects (grammar, vocabulary and phonology) from the existing local school course books (Kid’s English, Fly High, Teen’s English)
Evaluate how the language is treated in the light of the relevant theories and approaches.
Give examples to support your points. Suggest ways of adaptation.



Follow these criteria in evaluating the teaching material:

Pedagogic Analysis

1. 
   Methodologically, the book is in line with your school's approach to language learning.
   
2. 
   Methodologically, the book is in line with current worldwide theories and practices of language learning.
   
3. 
   Pronunciation: there is sufficient work on recognition and production of individual sounds.
   
4. 
   Pronunciation: there is sufficient work on recognition and production of stress patterns and intonation.
   
5. 
   The balance between listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills development
   
6. 
   Skills integration receives sufficient attention.
   
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   book contains adequate formal learner achievement tests.
   
10. 
    There are activities for communicative interaction and the development of communicative strategies
    
11. 
    The balance between individual work, pair-work, groupwork, and whole-class work in the book
    
12. 
    One goal of the book is enabling learners to use English outside the classroom situation.
    
13. 
    New structures are presented systematically and in a meaningful context.
    
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