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