Task 1 - Evaluating English Text Books

Book Cover

Example Content

This book is use Structural Syllabus

Text Book: Side By Side (Third Edition)

Molinsky & Bliss, (2010). Side by Side Third Edition. Pearson Education

Based on website exploration, our group learn from: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/grammatical-syllabus that structural syllabus is:

“A grammatical syllabus is based on the structures of a language. It can be compared to other types of syllabi based around tasks, vocabulary, functions or topics.”

Molinsky & Bliss, (2010) “Side by Side Third Edition”  fits this definition of structural syllabus, therefore our group decide that this text book is developed based on structural syllabus. 

The grammatical syllabus has been defined as one which consists of a list of grammatical items selected and graded in terms of simplicity and complexity (Nunan, 1998 in Baleghizadeh 2012)

Nunan (1998) in Baleghizadeh (2012), description about grammatical syllabus is organized fit the way Molinsky & Bliss, (2010) organized the material in the textbook.

References

Baleghizadeh, (2012). GRAMMATICAL SYLLABUS AND EFL TEXTBOOKS: THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING ACTIVITIES. Journal of Language Learning. Per Linguam. From https://perlinguam.journals.ac.za Retrieved on May 26 2017

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/grammatical-syllabus Retrieved on May, 26 2017