General English Textbook Evaluation: A Closer Look at “Four Corners”

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2325
Author(s):  
Nastaran Chegeni ◽  
Behrooz Kamali ◽  
Atousa Noroozi ◽  
Nasrin Chegeni
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Textbook Evaluation ◽  
Four Corners ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Materials Used

There is no doubt choosing specific language teaching materials can influence the quality of teaching and learning procedures. The textbooks can often play an essential role in students’ success or failure as a part of the materials used in the language classrooms. Consequently, special care should be taken in evaluating educational materials based on dependable and valid instruments. Some of the usual instruments to evaluate the English Language Teaching materials are the checklists. An evaluation checklist is an instrument that allows the evaluator with a number of features of successful teaching and learning materials. Regarding this, the present study is an attempt to evaluate the recent general English textbook by Richards and Bohlke (2012) titled “Four Corners” using Daoud and Celce-Murcia’s (1979) evaluation checklist. The finding of the study supports the strengths of the aforementioned textbook putting it in one of the reliable available textbooks.

scholarly journals Integrating Cloud World Synergy in ELT to Adults: Perspectives of Handheld Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdulgalil Abugohar ◽  
Kamariah Yunus ◽  
Ghaleb Rabab'ah ◽  
Tarig Awad Eltahir Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
The Rich

<p>The outcomes of modern technology have turned real-world interaction into a virtual community, then into a cloud one. These giant leaps aided by the excitement created by the possibilities inherent in learning through handheld technologies made using mobile devices in English language teaching (ELT) indispensable. This paper is aimed to deeply overview available handheld technologies and their features that can enable teachers in their mission. It investigates the synergy of a group of mobile devices of smartphones, tablets, iPods, iPads, E-readers, and classroom response systems, among others. These devices have been effective in everyday activities, and are expected to enrich ELT, especially in communities where there is a lack of community of practice (CoP) on the target language. To this aim, this paper was cored around reviewing the potential handheld technologies have in language classrooms. The main data were obtained from the rich body of literature, shedding more light on their properties in creating interactive communication in and out of classrooms. The findings revealed that handheld technologies can be successfully integrated into English language teaching and learning. Pedagogically, teachers are encouraged to exploit mobile devices into their classroom practices after closely testing their specifications, and scanning their advantages and shortcomings.</p>

Chief Editor’s Epilogue: Toward a More Creative Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Creative Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Creative Studies

Changes in society need creative changes in education, including in English language teaching and learning. Society 5.0 needs more creative educators and researchers to help learners getting prepared for the future. This journal’s first volume (issues 1 and 2) reports fourteen creative studies and a review. In the next issues, more creative and innovative studies need to be done to open new horizons of language creative uses, innovations in language teaching, and innovations in teaching materials.

scholarly journals A Study on 'English Language Teaching' (ELT) in Telugu Speaking States

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dr. V. N. Ch. Ranganath ◽  
K. Vijana
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Official Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Educational Field

The importance of the English language in the educational field is clear from the fact that many countries have made English an official language. Consequently, English language teaching (ELT) has become one of the significant growth industries around the world in recent years. The English language teaching tradition has been subject to tremendous change, especially throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps more than any other discipline, this tradition has been practised in various adaptations in language classrooms all around the world for centuries. While the teaching of Maths or Physics, that is, the methodology of teaching Maths or Physics, has, to a greater or lesser extent, remained the same, this is hardly the case with English or language teaching in general. As will become evident in this short paper, there are some milestones in the development of this tradition, which we will briefly touch upon, in an attempt to reveal the importance of research in the selection and implementation of the optimal methods and techniques for language teaching and learning.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of English Learning Materials for Information and Technology Students Department at Politeknik Negeri Padang

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Indri Astuti
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Information And Technology ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed to get the criteria for English language teaching materials needed by Padang State Polytechnic Information and Technology students and evaluate English teaching materials that were used to determine the level of compatibility of teaching materials used with criteria obtained in terms of language, content, and methodology. This research was an evaluation research. Questionnaires, interviews, and analysis formats were used to obtain data. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) criteria for English language teaching materials were needed by students majoring in Information and Technology in terms of language indicated that the teaching material used was in accordance with the needs of students, majors, and their level of English; in terms of the content of teaching material used had an emphasis on speaking and listening skills and teaching materials used for writing and reading were still lack; in terms of the methodology of teaching materials used were equipped with activities that train speaking skills so that training and assignments were focused on practicing speaking skills. (2) The level of compatibility of teaching material in terms of language was 58%. (3) The level of compatibility of teaching material in terms of contents, namely 42%. (4) The level of compatibility of teaching materials used in terms of methodology was 42%. Based on the results of the study, it could be concluded that students majoring in Information and Technology needed material that could improve their listening and speaking skills, then the material used in writing and reading was further reproduced.

scholarly journals Using Soleh English (SE) Teaching Materials with The Integration of Cultural and Islamic Values: Islamic Preschool Teachers’ Voices

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Siti Hajar Hassim ◽  
Azlina Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Question ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Islamic Values

English Language Teaching (ELT) materials are significant as tools in facilitating a second language teaching and learning including for preschool level. Also, it is necessary for teachers to opt for appropriate ELT materials which encompass cultural and local identity to generate a meaningful and relatable context of teaching and learning. Nonetheless, most of the materials currently available for preschool education in the publishing market are foreign and therefore little focus on local context. It is more evident in Islamic preschools, as the ELT materials need to be infused with Islamic values to align with the philosophy of Islamic preschools. Hence, this paper presents and discusses a part of a study on Islamic preschool teachers’ perception of the Soleh English (SE) teaching materials developed in the attempt to integrate Malay culture and Islamic values with ELT. The study employed a Case Study design involving five female Islamic preschool teachers in the Klang Valley Region. They were purposely chosen based on their experiences using the SE teaching materials. The data was obtained through semi-structured interviews and triangulated with a questionnaire and document analysis. The interview data reported in this article were thematically analysed. Findings illuminated four key themes for each research question which indicated that there is an integration of cultural and Islamic values in the SE teaching materials as well as in ESL teaching. This enabled the teachers to instil Islamic and cultural values in their English language teaching in contribution to generate noble citizens.  Keywords: materials, ESL teaching, integrated values, islamic preschool, cultural.

scholarly journals Investigating cultural contents in English language teaching materials through textbook evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-145
Author(s):  
Amna Arshad ◽  
Syed Kazim Shah ◽  
Muhammad Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Textbook Evaluation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Target Culture

Abstract The shift in the status of English as a lingua franca has challenged native-speaker culture in English language teaching and learning. That is why it is not enough to expose language learners through monoculture language teaching. Rather being communicatively competent, learners may require inter-cultural understanding. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the representation of cultures through different senses in Oxford Progressive English (OPE), Level-10 (Rachel Redford, 2016). As OPE caters the needs of Pakistani language learners, it is hypothesized that learners’ source culture prevails more than other two cultures (i.e. international, and target). To confirm this hypothesis, a detailed content analysis of cultural senses (prevailed in OPE) is carried out through Adaskou, Britten and Fahsi (1990). The results show that the frequency of reading texts in OPE is highly imbued with learners’ target culture that is followed by the international culture, and least by learners’ source culture. Moreover, culturally neutral texts lack in inter-cultural understanding, and appear to be disseminated to marginalize L2 learners from target and international cultures.

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