Material Evaluation

Material Evaluated:TIENG ANH 11 CO BAN

Aspects Evaluated: TEACHER FRIENDLY, REALISTICAND AFFORDABLE

  1. Teacher- friendly
  1. Is the book easy for teacher to use?
  • Size + Weight: suitable and convenient for teacher to bring along to the class.
  • Has been popularly used in every high school in Vietnam

 similar to teacher.

 The book is easy for the teacher to use.

  1. Organization
  • Book map:  help teacher look up the page for each unit and know the objectives for each lesson.
  • Theme: spiral development in the series of Tieng Amh 10-12 (You and Me, Education, Nature…)

 Teacher has experiences with teaching similar themes in many different grades.

 Teacher may feel bored with the repetition of these themes.

  • Division of 5 main sections for each unit with fixed order:

Reading Speaking  Listening  Writing  Language Focus.

Clear stages in each section.

Ex: Reading: + Before you read

+ While you read

+ After you read

 Easy for teacher to follow when preparing lesson plan.

  • Test yourself: After each theme (2-3 units), covers the main notions for each theme (vocabulary, grammatical structures,…)

 help teacher to review the lessons.

easy for preparing lesson plan.

  • Glossary: supplies main content words in each unit.
  • Pronunciation and phonetic symbols: supplies the pronunciation of all vowels and consonants according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

 easy for teacher to look up the words, checking pronunciation and

teaching vocabulary.

 The book is well- organized.

  1. Index: The book doesn’t have index.

 take teacher more time to find a notion in the book.

  1. Answer key:
  • No answer key in the textbook.
  • Provided in the teacher’s book.

 convenient for teacher.

 guarantee that students do the tasks by themselves  teacher evaluates students more correctly.

  1. Teacher’s preparation time
  • Most sections include 3 parts (Before-, While-, After-) corresponding to 3 stages of a lesson.

 help teacher to prepare lesson plan more easily.

  • Some tasks in Language Focus and Writing are not interesting and communicative enough  teacher takes time to adapt the activities.

 do not help teacher save preparation time.

 The book does not help teacher to save preparation time in every lesson.

Conclusion: The book Tieng Anh 11 co ban is quite friendly with teacher. According to the a bow evaluation, our group think that the book gets 70% of teacher- friendly.

  1. Realistic
  1. The authenticity of communication
  • Most of conversations between students are not used in their daily lives.

Ex. + Students talk about the solutions to the problems of overpopulation (Unit 7, Speaking, Task 3).

+ Students talk about some facts and opinions of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Unit 16, Speaking, Task 3).

  • Some conversations are based on students’ imagination.

Ex. + Unit 1, Speaking, Task 3

+ Unit 3, Speaking, Task 3

  • In some conversations, students have already known the information they intend to ask their friends.

Ex. + Unit 1, Speaking, Task 1

+ Unit 12, Speaking, Task 1, 2

  • In some dialogues, one student just asks and the other one just answers.

 not common in real interactional communication.

Ex. Unit 13, Speaking, Task 12

 The communication in the book is not authentic enough.

  1. The language used in the book
  • Some words are not true-to-life.

Ex. Unit 10, Reading, page 115: They reference Human beings

In original English: We reference Human beings

  • Includes many words in current.

Ex. Stock-market, solar panel, geothermal heat...

 The language is quite current.

Conclusion:The book Tieng Anh 11 co ban is not realistic enough (50% of realistic)

  1. Affordable
  • The book is affordable:

+ The price of the book is 12.3000đ. In current, this is a small amount of money that all 11th grade students nationwide can afford

  • The book is worth the price that the learner will have to pay

+ The book contains 194 color-printed pages. In the market, a color-printed page costs 2000d so 194 pages costs 388.000d. The price 12.3000d of the book Tieng Anh 11 is so cheap

+ The knowledge included in the book is valuable

-The book has 16 units and 6 tests. Each unit includes four skills (reading, speaking, listening, writing), pronunciation, grammar that help students develop their language skills.

-The book also gives students more new information such as: the space conquest, the wonders of the world, the new sources of energy….

Conclusion: The book Tieng Anh 11 co ban is affordable

Evaluation Criteria

Criteria / Description
Knowledge & application / Students demonstrate a good knowledge of ELT and a successful application of theory to practice.
Creativity / Students demonstrate a degree of creativity in the application.
Clarity / The assignment is clear and understandable.
Criteria / Score
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Knowledge & Application / 
Creativity / 
Clarity / 
Total score: / 12/15