An evaluation of junior high school English textbooks in Taiwan. Link to this page 1. Introduction 1.1. Background In order to keep up with the trend of globalization, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan had to outline some proposals for educational reform, including several proposals for the area of English language instruction. Educational reform in the country started in 1997 and is still an ongoing project at present. According to the Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum Guidelines
The Trophies textbook series has an overall good quality of information and lessons that can help a teacher teach an effective language lesson. The textbook gives full lessons, which can greatly assist a teacher who is not confident in their language teaching. The worksheets are effective and able to help the students learn the correct material. These worksheets can be used as daily assignments and effective assessments. The textbook gives great differentiation for the teacher to look back on for
spread globally as a result of religion, not English. It is clearly stated on pg. 184 of the textbook that “a large percentage of the world’s Muslims have at least some knowledge of Arabic because Islam’s holiest book, the Quran(Koran), was written in that language in the seventh century”. Arabic spread because being that Islam is a universalizing religion, the large amount of people that converted to the religion also had to learned the Arabic language, thus helping it spread. Therefore, Arabic spread
Study Learning English has become primary necessity in this era, for the better or worse, by choice or force, English has ‘traveled to many part of the world and has been used to serve various purposes’ (Sharifian in Naji Pishgadam, 2012 : 84 as cited in Setiawati , 2015 :1). According to Chang as cited in Setiawati, “English has been the prevailing foreign language in the curricula of educational institution and in foreign language learning”. By the end of the twentieth century English was already
Nowadays, English language has become one of the most important languages in the world in which we need to learn and to teach in order to communicate effectively with others from all over the world. Al-Jarf (2008, cited in Alhaysony, 2012) indicates that about one million students are learning English worldwide, which highlighted the importance of English teaching and learning for academic purposes. Graddol (2000) states that English Language "is the main language of books, newspapers, airports and
first weak point of the textbook English 6 is lacking of information about the authors' formal education, experience in teaching, administration, curriculum and materials development experience. Undoubtedly, it is a main factor which shows a vivid picture of the authors having a recognized standing in the field of education and a good reputation for producing innovative and efficient materials. For instance, on the contrary, publishers often attach the authors’ views on language, methodology or teaching
IN NORTH CAROLINA, THE 2004 STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY FOR ENGLISH IV (twelfth grade) focuses on British literature. Textbooks begin with the Anglo-Saxon period, most prominently Beowulf, and move through the Middle Ages to The Canterbury Tales. Each textbook provides commentary about the oral tradition and Chaucer; each textbook explains the role of the epic hero and the structure of the frame story; each textbook tells us that these are great works of enduring literature. An epic and a pilgrimage
activities of English textbook grade 5(P.T.B). Chapter I Introduction Communication is a necessity for survival. It is an innate human desire that man wants to the other people around establish commonness by sharing, information, exchanging message, signals, ideas, signs or behavior. Language is believed to the primary element of most human communication throughout human civilization the basic mode communication is by spoken means. For which different languages are generated. Language itself
of English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Languages have a prominent status in all societies and in all developed and developing countries. The languages take this status because they are devices for communicating between humans. In many countries, there is more than one language that the people speak. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for example, the Arabic language is the official language in the country, and the English language is the second language that the citizens speak. The English language
the part of the citizens. Without this, Nigeria will be linguistically, politically, educationally and socially isolated from her francophone neighbors. This realization informed certain provisions guiding language study in Nigeria education system. The learning and use of the foreign language is not only peculiar to Nigeria. It is a worldwide phenomenon. Early bilingual education was advocated by the Renaissance humanists but in more recent times, international organizations are reiterating that