W
HAT DO YOUR LEARNERS NEED FROM A COURSEBOOK
?
Children want a coursebook to be colourful and interesting. They
hope the coursebook will contain exciting games and activities. They
hope the cassettes will contain exciting stories, amusing dialogues
and entertaining songs and rhymes.
But what do the children need? We all know
that children have short
memories. They find it difficult to retain ideas and language from
one lesson to the next. So the children need a coursebook which
becomes an accessible and understandable record of their work.
A good coursebook gives the children:
•
a
sense of progress, progression and purpose;
•
a sense of security;
•
scope for independent
and autonomous learning;
•
a reference for checking and revising.
T
HE
P
ERFECT
C
OURSEBOOK
The Perfect Coursebook for every teacher and every class does not
exist. When selecting a coursebook you always need to make a
compromise.
There will be things which you don’t like about any coursebook. How
important are those things? Can you create
materials to substitute
those aspects? Has the coursebook got something missing? Can you
find or create materials to fill that gap?
Remember that you work in partnership with your coursebook.
Never expect the coursebook to do everything for you. You will
always need to personalise your teaching with your own personality.
W
HAT CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE COURSEBOOK
?
As a teacher you have a collection of skills. There are some things
which you may be very good at doing. Are you a great artist who
can draw all the pictures you need? Are you a musician who can
play and sing any songs you need? Do
you know hundreds of simple
games for your learners to play? Do you have a good competence in
English? It may not be enough to be a native speaker, you also
need to be able to analyse and grade the
language which you teach
your learners.
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