Adopting and Adapting an Existing Course Book

Reasons why course books are used
1. School Policies
2. Ministry of Education policies
  1. Stardards
  2. Distrust in teachers' skills
3. Teachers feel safe by using textbooks
  1. Reliance
  2. Minimal adaptations
  3. Teachers consider that textbooks are of high quality
4. Teachers' inexperience
5. Lack of training
6. Learners' wish
Adapting a course book considering needs and principles
1. Changing the format
  1. Change the order to develop activities or exercises
2. Adding content considering the principles
  1. Comprehensible input
    1. Extensive reading
  2. Extra items
  3. Fluency
    1. Spaces to use the language
  4. Time on task
    1. The use of the second language in the course
3. Omitting content
  1. Skip some parts
    1. Confusing
    2. Unimportant
4. Changing the sequence
  1. Change the time to present items
    1. Erlier
    2. Later
5. Add or omit monitoring
  1. Guided
  2. Independent
  3. Peer monitoring
6. Add or Omit assessment
7. Changing the presentation
  1. Different techniques
Considerations to select a course book
1. It has more positive than negative feaures
2. It allows flexibility for teachers and learners
  1. It can be connected with the curriculum
  2. It can be use as homework
  3. It can be used as extra material
3. There is time to use it.
4. Language Items
  1. structures
  2. Vocabulary
5. Students proficiency
6. Content
  1. Activities
  2. Types of content and presentation
  3. Topics
7. Students' age
  1. Interests
Evaluating a course book based on the curriculum design
1. Features to consider
  1. It is suitable to the environment
  2. It does not have offensive content
  3. Availability
  4. It applies teaching and learning principles
  5. Price
  6. It is connected to the goals of the course
  7. The book fits with the length of the course

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