Coursebook Evaluation- Reflection

The coursebook evaluation was an efficient tool to realize how useful a text

book could become for our students. One of the requirements for this task was a

teacher’s point of view, about what he/she thinks about them, and how much they

depend on them; however, it was surprisingly that as it is expected nowadays,

most of us rely on sources such as internet, and more importantly according to our

student’s demands. Furthermore, I consider that we must be concentrated on how

to keep our student engaged with the class, in order to accomplish the aim, we

need to fulfill the student’s demands, it would not be worthy to just keep using a

course book, if we do not think on what it is best for our student. The first step is to

consider what we want our students to learn, and then, how they are going to learn

it.

Following with the previous idea, one of the facts that we must to take into

account is that most of the text books are focused mainly on grammar features.

And it has been a while, since we have been listening that our students should end

up their secondary studies, by speaking fluently. However, there is a contradiction

between what the government wants to accomplish, and what the textbook really

contributes to our students. Consequently, I would say that coursebook should not

be underestimating; rather there should be an interaction between the teacher’s

activities and the textbook. In addition, if the current reality asked students to

develop communicative competence, then teachers should come up with the

essential techniques for students to improve their communicative skills.

Makarena Sánchez Campos