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College of Teacher Education English For Specific Purposes Book Evaluation Jhamil L. Amponin BSED-1201
College of Teacher Education English For Specific Purposes Book Evaluation Jhamil L. Amponin BSED-1201
BOOK EVALUATION
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2. What are the aims of your course? Basically, the aim of this course is to
develop communicative competence and
literary competence which is also associated
with the appreciation of literary art of both
Filipino and American writers. It also aims to
develop a functionally literate student who
can develop critical and logical thinking
skills.
3. What kind of language description In his book, Transformational Generative
do you require? Grammar (TGG) is used since the course
deals with communicative competence which
is a set of rules used for formulating
grammatically correct sentences.
7. What text types should be included? This should include both factual and
literary text types. For literary text types, the
use of different approaches such as in the
form of short stories, poetry and narrative is
recommended for the enhancement of
learners’ flexibility in understanding different
forms of written works. For factual, the use of
informative texts and contexts must be
properly applied.
10. How should the content be The content of this book should be
organized within the course units? organized according to the courses which
allow a clear focus on the reading and writing
skills. The topics must be able to allow a clear
focus on certain skill areas in critical thinking
and in-depth reading.
12. How should the content be The content should be sequenced within
sequenced within a unit? Should a unit from comprehension to production. The
there be no obvious sequence? learners will be given an example of literary
work to be read. Afterwards, this would be
followed by activities in relevance with the
topic that would measure and test their
knowledge prior to what they have learned.
13. What theories of learning should the The theories of learning that the course must
course be based on? be based on are:
15. What kind of exercises/tasks are The course must impose reading and
needed? writing practices that would improve the
students’ comprehension skills. The students
must be able to answer questions in a
substantial manner to test whether they have
or have not understood what they have
learned.
16. What teaching-learning techniques The course must focus more on a teacher-
are to be used? centered approach. Meaning, he/ she is
required to explain and elaborate a literary
work based on a deep level of understanding.
He /she may use pair or group works in
giving activities so that students may share
their thoughts to their co-students and have an
interactive learning.
17. What aids are available for use? The most available aid for teaching
nowadays is the overhead projector. The
facilitator here may project the topics they are
to teach using the projector and also the
activities for better learning. They may also
use visual presentations such as videos and
images in relation to the topics presented.
18. What guidance/support for teaching The prior source of guidance and support
the course will be needed? for teaching the course that may be needed is
by listing vocabulary and language-skills
points. The teacher may ask the students to
give their prior knowledge of the topic before
it has been introduced to hem. Later on, they
may be asked to compare and contrast their
answers given to what is really meant by the
topic.
19. How flexible do the materials need The materials both used in teaching
to be? and learning must first possess relevance to
the topics presented and given so that it will
be easier for the student to acquire the
knowledge imposed to them without
confusion. The materials is required to have
versatility that the students may not only use
them at school but also in other places.
20. What price range is necessary? The suggested price range is from Php 250-
450.00 only. The course must not only be
efficient and effective in the students’
learning processes, but also it must possess
cost-efficiency. Other students who are not
financially-fortunate may not be able to afford
the book because of its price.
21. When and in what quantities should The production of these materials must
the materials be available, etc? meet the number of population of student
learners who takes up the course. If not, there
would be lack of materials for the student
learning.