Textbook survey and analyses

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Textbook survey and analyses

• AHT5087 SLA in the Classroom
• Sarah Petersen Mikiko Suzuki
• June 22, 2004

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Reviewed textbooks

• In Contact 1A (Units 1-6), 1B (Units 7-12), 2A
  (Units 1-6), 2B (Units 7-12)
• Level beginning
• Publisher Addison Wesley Longman
• Date of publication 2000
• Beginning level of 4 levels of Scott Foresman
  English series each level has 2 books (1 2)

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Textbook evaluation summary
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Textbook evaluation - Input
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Textbook evaluation - Output
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Pattern of presentation
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Textbook evaluation

• Usefulness to SLA
• PPP assumes a linear process of learning ?
  incompatible with the SLA process
• Book 1 Focused Unfocused Book 2 Focused Unfocused ? reflects more focus on form in
  earlier chapters of the textbooks
• book units, naturalistic input ?
  exposes learners to a gradual increase of
  input thus more chance for the learner to
  receive comprehensible input throughout
  the process

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Textbook evaluation

• Usability
• Great amount of pair-work interaction with
  other pairs ? assumes a good of students in
  the classroom
• Listening activities in Listening Getting
  started sections ? need to assure the
  availability of audio equipments

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Textbook evaluation

• Reflections
• Variety of topics with communicative goals, but
  activities do not seem to take SLA processes into
  consideration.
• PPP model does not address the learner variation.
• Can any textbook accommodate all students styles
  of learning a SL?