Refering to Materials, I am very interested in examining a coursebook which was used my son in 4th grade elementary school, it is called "Super Bus 4". The idea is to have an opinion about it and to know specific information about its content. Was it a good tool for him in language classes?
To give responses to this examination, I would like apply it with grades, in a scale from 0 to 7, which 7 is the best result for the criteria, which it is totally included in the Coursebook and at the other hand 0 is totally not included.
To give responses to this examination, I would like apply it with grades, in a scale from 0 to 7, which 7 is the best result for the criteria, which it is totally included in the Coursebook and at the other hand 0 is totally not included.
CRITERIA FOR COURSEBOOK ASSESSMENT
- ( 0 ) Objectives explicity laid out in an introduction , and implemented in the material.
- ( 5 ) Approach educcationally and socially acceptable to target community.
- ( 7 ) Clear attractive layour; print easy to read.
- ( 7 ) Appropiate visual materials available.
- ( 7 ) Interesting topics and task.
- ( 6 ) Varied topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learners levels, learning styles, interests, etc.
- ( 5 ) Clear instructions.
- ( 0 ) Systematic coverage of syllabus.
- ( 5 ) Content clearly organized and graded (sequency by difficulty)
- ( 0 ) Periodic review and test sections.
- ( 0 ) Plenty of authentic language
- ( 0 ) Good pronounciation, explanation and practise.
- ( 0 ) Good vocabulary explanation and practise.
- ( 5 ) Good grammar presentation and practise.
- ( 5 ) Fluency practise in all four skills.
- (4 ) Encourage learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent in their learning.
- ( 7 ) Adequate guidance for the teacher; not too heavy preparation load.
- ( 5 ) Audio cassettes.
- ( 7 ) Readily available locally.
Reflexions :
Well, as you see it is impossible for me to recognize as a well material to work with this type of books, it seems not clear in any sense... I suppose it had other type of materials to work with, but children didn't have extra material with this book ( a cassette, video, etc ), the only one thing that they had it was a workbook, which was used to do some extra exercises to practise different grammar studies... So if you ask me if it possible to work with it as a good tool for applying to acquire english language? well, in my opinion it could be possible, but as in many other cases, you have to add aditional material to focus your unit as an integrated course developing different skills, working with authentic material, etc..
After that, to be more precise the marvellous thing in this book are the activities, they show us different type of projects, which children will be motivated to develop, and in the case of units are introduced like different types of comics, it's totally amazing...
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