A Material Analysis And Evaluation On21st College New English

English coursebooks, as the main tools for teachers to organizeteaching activities, connect teachers’ teaching with students’ learning. Theyprovide the language learning resources and quantities of language input forstudents. Coursebooks are the core of English teaching, which determine thecontent and organization of teaching. Therefore the quality of coursebooksplay vital roles in language teaching. One of the fundamental abilities ofteachers is to analyze and evaluate the coursebooks. The evaluation ofcoursebooks is of great importance. It can help teachers and educatorsanalyze the quality of coursebooks and identify their strengths and problemsso that appropriate material can be chosen for specific students. It also canhelp teachers who do not have the right to choose coursebook make someadjustment according to their teaching situation so that student’s learningneeds can be meet. Most researchers at present only focus on the analysisand evaluation of the coursebooks from the theoretical perspective, while interms of the practical study, they mainly concentrate on the analysis andevaluation of textbooks for middle and senior high school in China. With thereform of college English language teaching, a variety of coursebooks arepublished and introduced on the market which are claimed to be in line withthe National College Syllabus (1999). As one of these coursebooks,21stCollege New English has been adopted by the Basic Education Institute ofInner Mongolia Normal University since its first publication in the fall of2011.This thesis makes an analysis and evaluation of21stCollege NewEnglish from the comprehensive perspective. Based on the relative theoriesof pedagogy, linguistics as well as language learning and teaching, thisthesis first analyzes the purpose, the design and the content of the coursebook. After the textual analysis, an investigation is conducted aimingat perceiving the students’ and teachers’ opinion on this book throughquestionnaire survey, interview survey and classroom observation. Thesubjects of the study are the students and teachers in Basic EducationInstitute of Inner Mongolia Normal University. Then a conclusion is made tofind out the possible problems of this book and to give some suggestions tothe editors and coursebooks users so that it can be better and fullydeveloped.Combined with the textual and investigation analysis, the researchobtains the following results: the arrangement system of the coursebookembodies the requirement of National College Syllabus (2007edition),focusing on the cultivation of comprehensive ability of the students. Everyunit is arranged on the topic, language is natural, the theme and genres areof great diversity. The classroom teaching activities equipped withmultimedia are organized according to various language skills elaborated inthe coursebook. However, the writer and editors should add some topicswhich students desired most and adjust the proportion of various genres.Teachers should add some knowledge about the learning skills and strategies.They can adjust the teaching content according to their teachingrequirements. Students should combine their language input with output,and cultivate their learning autonomy and improve the comprehensive use ofvarious skills.This thesis consists of five parts in all:The first part servers as introduction, which gives a brief statementabout the background, significance, purpose and research methods.The second part gives a literature review of the relevant theories andprevious research of the coursebook evaluation in China and foreigncountries. Guided by the National College English Syllabus (1999), thisthesis puts forward the evaluation standards and detailed rules on which theresearch is based..The third part is the theoretical analysis of21stCollege New English. from the viewpoint of the compiling system, features, content, structuraldesign, language knowledge, cultural conscious, emotion attitudes, learningstrategies and so on. The analysis is carried out from the points of NationalCollege Syllabus and Cheng Xiaotang’s criteria of internal and externalcoursebook evaluation.The forth part focuses on the description of the practical investigation.The investigation instruments adopted are the questionnaire for studentsand interview for teachers. Then the writer collects the data and relativeinformation about the investigation and summarizes the students’ andteachers’ views about this coursebook and tries to find out possibleproblems.The last part presents the research conclusion and puts forward someproper suggestions to both editors and coursebook users on how to compileand use the coursebook which can be better and fully developed so as toplay the vital role in language teaching.