An Analysis And Evaluation On Viewing, Listening And Speaking Series Of New Standard College English

Teaching materials, which play a vital role in the teaching of collegeEnglish, determine in great degree the teaching methods and class models ofcollege English. Textbook evaluation is important for both teaching andlearning in many aspects, such as selecting textbooks, promoting teaching andhelping the users make the better use of the material.The correct evaluation of teaching materials is of great importance fortextbook selection. With the reform of college English teaching, a few coursebooks are compiled and published in the market which is compiled inaccordance with the newly-issued English Curriculum Requirements (CECR)in2004. As one of those books, New Standard College English are publishedby Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in2009, which is writtenfor the realization of systematic teaching, from primary school to university.The importance of listening and speaking skills are emphasized in CollegeEnglish Curriculum Requirements (for trial implementation) published in2004. Therefore, the thesis attempts to analyze and evaluate in-use NewStandard College English--Viewing, Listening and Speaking Textbooks, onemain component of the series of New Standard College English.Through the analysis and evaluation, we could know the concerningproblems caused by the book in the students’ studying, and the strengths andweaknesses of the series of New Standard College English--Viewing,Listening and Speaking Textbooks in order to give the teachers, colleges andthe compilers of the course book and some related management departmentssome suggestions.Based on some major relevant research theories and results of thematerial evaluation at home and abroad, the author designs a working modelfor the evaluation which includes two processes, preliminary evaluation (theanalysis of the material as it is) and in-use evaluation (taking students andteachers’ views into consideration). First, a preliminary evaluation of the textbook as it is is conducted. The author analyzes the course book from theaspects of the background, principles, unit organization and features of thecompiling. Then an in-use evaluation is carried out by interviewing thestudents and teachers’ opinions from the angles of items analysis including thestructure, design, content, topic design, language skills etc. During theassessment phrase, an in-use evaluation is conducted by sendingquestionnaires to7teachers and310non-English major students from twouniversities in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, by which the data arecollected and analyzed based on the statistic software of SPSS17.0. Moreover,interviews are carried out to seven college English teachers and30students toinvestigate the strengths and weaknesses of this book.The result shows that New Standard College English--Viewing,Listening and Speaking Textbooks satisfied most of the learners’ needs. Thoseusers express their satisfaction at the choice of topics, rich content, diverseactivities and the innovative design of materials, which can help most of thestudents to improve listening and speaking ability. However, it is a bit farfrom perfect, which are needed to be taken into consideration in materialadaptation, such as, its related materials still need to improve, degree of thetext’s difficulty varies largely, spoken materials are not used fully at class.