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Selecting a textbook

Selecting a textbook. FLLT622 Dr. Cubillos. What criteria should be taken into account when selecting a textbook?. Start developing a Textbook Selection Checklist (this will be the opening segment of your next report). Superficial Elements: Size Number of chapters Quality of design

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Selecting a textbook

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  1. Selecting a textbook FLLT622 Dr. Cubillos

  2. What criteria should be taken into account when selecting a textbook? • Start developing a Textbook Selection Checklist (this will be the opening segment of your next report)

  3. Superficial Elements: Size Number of chapters Quality of design Pictures Colors Fonts Fancy ancillaries Pedagogical Considerations: Solid linguistic foundations Solid philosophy of learning Quality and variety of activities Quality and variety of ancillaries “User Friendliness” Possible Criteria

  4. Key Question: How effectively will this textbook support my pedagogical goals?

  5. Agenda • Focus on the Language • Focus on the Learner • Focus on the Learning Process

  6. Examining a Textbook • What is “language”? • Purpose(s) • Components • Sequence • Emphasis

  7. How does the author view language? • Nunan’s Perspective: • Definition of linguistic competence • Components of linguistic competence (grammatical, socio-linguistic, strategic) • Relationship among those components • Shrum & Glisan’s Perspective: • Modes of communication • Interpersonal, Interpretive, Presentational

  8. Vocabulary • Forms of presentation • Context • Connections with other linguistic components (grammar, pronunciation, etc.) • Recycling

  9. Grammar • Grammar rules (explicitly stated, implicitly, inductively, deductively,etc.) • Dimensions of grammar: • Form • Meaning • Use

  10. Discourse • Textual connectivity • Cohesion • Reference • Speech acts

  11. Interpreting Language • Schema theory • Strategies • Authenticity • Frequency • Tasks

  12. Language Development Metaphors • Linear (Building block) • Organic

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