Seameo regional language centre
Teachers’ beliefs about the new textbooks
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- 2.5.1. Strengths of the new textbooks
| 2.5. Teachers’ beliefs about the new textbooks
This section reports teachers’ opinions about the quality of the new textbooks. As mentioned earlier, teachers’ opinions were collected via a survey questionnaire which consisted of five open-ended questions concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the books. The 250 teachers surveyed in this study were the key staff in various schools and education services throughout Vietnam. Among them 173 were female and 77 were males. Their ages ranged between 25 and 55. Most of them had been teaching English for at least ten years. Concerning their experience with the new textbooks, 210 teachers had been using the book for one year, which means they had been using English 10. Twenty two had been using the books for more than two years, which means they had been using all the three books. Eighteen of them had not yet taught the new books but familiarized themselves with the books in a number of teacher-training workshops. Thus, the teachers’ opinions discussed below were mainly concerning English 10. 2.5.1. Strengths of the new textbooks The teachers identified the following as the strengths of the new books: Clear objectives. Balanced coverage of language skills and language elements. Provision of systematic knowledge of language. Communicative and learner-centered. 52 Varied, realistic, relevant, interesting and update topics and texts. Clear, helpful layout and beautiful visual illustrations. Allowing regular revision and self-study. Training teachers in teaching methods and procedures. Helpful glossary. In general, they all agreed that the new textbooks possessed several advantages over the old series. The most important advantage, according to them, was the books had brought about positive changes in the way English was taught at secondary school, making it significantly more communicative and effective. tải về 421.94 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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