Course Book Analysis And Evaluation Based On Learner Autonomy

Course book, as an important teaching resource, plays a significant role in school education. In China, English course book carries the requirements stipulated by the curriculum for senior middle school English education and determines English teaching content and teaching methods in senior middle school education. The study about how to choose course books which is practical and helpful on students autonomy learning is still absent. Based on the current study result of both abroad and home, this thesis will analyze the Senior English for Schools published by Chongqing University Press(SEFS) based on the National English Curriculum Standards(NEC), combining with the learner autonomy needs. It will enlarge the study of course book analysis and evaluation, at the same time it will help the teachers and student to use this course book more efficiently.The main study question is listed as follows: Does SEFS suit the standard of NEC? Does the course book meet the students’ need on learning autonomy? What are the strong points and weakness of this course book and what should be redeveloped? The evaluation are the standards combining NEC, Cunningsworth, Breen & Candlin, and David & Lindsay. Both the Internal and External evaluation will be done. The Internal evaluation is consist with Macroscopic Evaluation and Microscopic Evaluation. The Macroscopic Evaluation will be analyzed from complication, teaching aims, teaching approaches and the organization, the Microscopic Evaluation will be analyzed from in terms of language knowledge, language skills, and learning strategies. Through Qualitative Analysis method, Quantitative Analysis method, questionnaire and Investigation study, it is found that SEFS adopts a synthetic viewpoint concerning views s on language learning and language teaching, emphasizes the cultivation of students’ overall language ability, which are quite in accordance with the NECS. Besides, SEFS pays attention to the cultivation and development of students’ learning strategies, chooses rich topics, presents authentic language use and proposes the whole person education. Nevertheless, Vocabulary size is considered too big for the students and the listening speed is too fast. Additionally, they think SEFS should consider more to better satisfy students’ examination needs. In the end, suggestions for teachers, compilers and students are given.