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What is the teaching aid that usually shapes much of what happens in the English classroom?
The textbook
Who could choose the textbooks to use in the English classroom?
The teacher, the administrators, the committees of teachers, the Ministry of Public Education
What is the first area included in textbook analysis?
The Fit between Curriculum and Texts
What are the three major elements of textbooks?
Content (and explanations), examples, and exercises or tasks.
What is the second area included in textbook analysis?
The Fit between Students and Texts
What is the third area included in textbook analysis?
The Fit between Teachers and Texts
When it comes to analysis for implementation, what is evaluation about?
Evaluation is about making a judgment call.
What does a teacher need to do prior to implementing a textbook?
A teacher needs to read the whole book.
What is a basic rule of textbook implementation?
You can only implement materials if you know they are there.
What kinds of units does the book have? How is each organized? These two questions are examples of what a teacher should ask about ______________.
Presentation-Format
What are the two strands of content that ESL/EFL textbooks tend to have?
the linguistic content and the thematic content
What are some resources of support that teachers have when implementing a textbook?
The instructor’s manual, a curriculum statement, course syllabi used in previous terms, copies of handouts used by previous teachers, and talking to colleagues.
What does the teacher need to consider when assigning activities in the textbook as homework?
The purpose that homework has in this particular class.
What can a teacher do if there are things in the textbook that might not fit his personality as a teacher?
He can skip them.
What do teachers have to do once a text has been selected?
Teachers need to analyze the resources in the textbook to create a plan for daily lessons.