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Unit 14
Evaluating and Adapting Textbooks
1 Why and what do teachers evaluate and adapt?
2 How do teachers evaluate textbooks?
3 How do teachers select textbooks?
4 How do teachers adapt textbooks?
Teaching aims
Why and what?

methodology
Why do teachers evaluate textbooks?
With the rapid ELT development in China, more and more textbooks have made their way to the market. Choosing the right textbook is ing more and more important at all levels.
What do teachers evaluate?
A great variety of resources used in language classroom besides “textbooks”:
Audio cassettes, videos, CD-ROMs, dictionaries, grammar book, readers, workbook, teachers’ book, photocopied materials, flashcards, and other authentic materials, such as newspapers, photographs, advertisements, radio/TV programmes, etc
methodology
Discussion:
Evaluating textbook

What are the features of good textbooks?
Attract the students’ curiosity, interest and attention
Help students to feel at ease
Help students to develop confidence
Meet the students’ needs
Expose the students to language in authentic use
Provide the students with opportunities to use the target language to municative purposes
Take into account that the positive effects of language teaching are usually delayed frequent and ample exposure)
Take into account that students differ in affective factors
Maximize learning potential by encouraging intellectual, aesthetic and emotional involvement
Selecting textbooks
Evaluating textbooks is one thing, selecting textbooks
is quite another. For one thing, teachers may be
overwhelmed by the rich contents of the textbook,
which usually has several volumes .For another,
teachers do not always have a clear awareness of what
their students need. In order to make the job of
textbook selection easier, materials researchers have
developed several practical and operational checklists
for classroom teachers.

 Task: Choose two similar textbooks which are used in the middle schools o