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MALTEPE UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION FACULTY
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT
2010-2011
LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS EVALUATION
N 401
FALL TERM
N 401
required
English
Weeks
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
COURSE OUTLINE
Refreshment
Warm welcome to the prospective teachers of the 4th grade. To give information on
syllabus, deliver students manual.
Needs analysis: to decide and schedule the way of analysing needs
Approaches to evaluation; Deciding on a checklist;Selecting course books-the
essentials
Selecting the best available course book; Selecting course books-the essentials
Specifying aims and analysing the learning/teaching situation;The role of course
books; Selecting course books-the essentials
Selecting course books; Uses of course books; Analysing and Evaluating course
books: A Rationale and some Guidelines
What the course book claim; Types of materials evaluation; Purposes of materials;
Analysing and Evaluating course books: A Rationale and some Guidelines
Midterm
Evaluating for potential and evaluating for suitability; Guidelines for evaluation;
Analysing and Evaluating course books: A Rationale and some Guidelines
Revision: Evaluating for potential and evaluating for suitability; Guidelines for
evaluation;
The guidelines in practice. A case study
Analysing and Evaluating course books: A Rationale and some Guidelines
The make-up of the course book package; The organization of course books;
The course book package
Language form and language use; Grammar
Evaluating the grammar content: a case study
Vocabulary
Phonology
The language content
Integration of pronunciation teaching with other work
Discourse
Style and Suitability
Varieties of English
The syllabus base; Content-based syllabuses; Structural and functional syllabuses;
Situational and topic-based syllabuses
The ESP materials
Teachers books
Selection and Grading
Assessment methods:
Contrastive and evaluative analysis of different books/materials in class; for midterm exam, 40%.
Project work for Final Exam: Each student is to visit private and state primary and secondary schools and survey on
material selection and the learning and teaching outcomes and write report of evaluation for final exam, 40%.
- mid-term exam
%40
- final exam
%40
- overall assessment
%10
- others (attendance, extensive reading, etc.) %10
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
IN-TERM STUDIES
Contribution
Laboratory
praxis
Field Study
Extensive studies for the course (Extensive translation, preparation, review,
consolidation)
Assignment
Presentation
Projects
Seminars
Midterm exam
Final
TOPLAM
Effect of semestral work/studies/exam to the termly GPA
Effect of Final exam to the termly GPA
TOPLAM
Prerequisite
Amount
Effective
Proportion
%80
34 hours
%10
%10
1
1
%40
%40
%100
%40
%60
%100
: NONE
Textbook/Recommended Reading:
Choosing Your Coursebook by Alan Cunningsworth. 1995, Heinemann.
Recommended
Class Materials
No
Level of Effect
Via programme outcomes/competence one will be able to
1
5
x
3
5
26
Number
Duration
(1 teaching
length)
Gross
workload
in hours
42
1
(50 mins)
42
14
42
14
1
1
3
1
1
42
1
1
150 hours