SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

MY ORDER TO BUY DIFFERENT PACKAGES IS:
　

PACKAGES	SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
1°	A set of books for teachers; including: grammars, dictionaries, various specialized textbooks, hanbooks of activities and a suscripción to a teachers´journal of your choice.
2°	Computers and printers for teachers´use each computer has a hard disk with the latest word processor and various programs that enable you to compose your own computer tasks for learners.
3°	A set of computers for learners´use, with accompanying language-learning programs on floppy disk.
4°	A number of overhead proyectors and slide proyectors, with all necessary film, slides and markers.
5°	Video equipment, with assorted cassettes, including language-learning material and film in the target language.
6°	A wide variety of posters and sets of coloured pictures, plus board and card games for language learning.
7°	A library of simplified readers in the target language, ranging from very simple to advanced. These would be enough books in this library to enable all students to borrow freely.
8°	Several cassettes recorders with accompanying earphones, a selección of accompanying cassettes for language learning.

　
Explanation
If we have a good base in books or materials like those, we can start our work in classroom. To complement that, we use technological resourses as computers to create extra materials. It is the teacher work.
If we want to follow a specific approach, according to these materials, we are presenting visual input, packages 3 to six, which provide a way to capture the atención of the students and simplify our work.

COURSEBOOK ASSESSMENT

CRITERIA FOR COURSEBOOK ASSESSMENT
COURSEBOOK ANALYSIS
TRAVELLERS, 8°BÁSICO .
LINA ALVARADO JANTUS

CRITERION	IMPORTANCE	IS OR NOT?
Approach educationally and socially acceptable to target community.	7	ü
Clear attractive layout; print easy to read.	6	ü
Appropriate visual materials available.	6	ü
Varied topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learner levels, learning styles, interests.	6	ü
Adequate guidance for the teacher; not too heavy preparation load.	6	ü
Interesting topics and tasks.	5	ü
Systematic coverage of syllabus.	5	ü
Objectives explicitly laid out in an introduction and implemented in the material.	4	ü
Clear instructions.	4	ü
Content clearly organized and graded.	4	ü
Good vocabulary explanation and practice.	3	ü
Good grammar presentation and practice.	3	ü
Plenty of authentic language.	2	ü
Good pronunciation explanation and practice.	0	×
Fluency practice in all four skills.	0	×
Encourages learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent in their learning.	0	×
Periodic review and test sections.	0	×
Audio cassettes.	0	×
Readily available locally.	0	×

Comment:
According to the analysis, coursebook is presented as a resourse to connect students and their reality.
Coursebook shows them different topics and they are related to the target language they develop in their school as a communicative resourse.
the strengths of the coursebook are related to the coursebook itself, it means, printing, edition, atractive colors, easy to read.
On the other hand, the weaknesses are: lack of authentic language, it doesn´t have a Cd to complement the work, it is too easy.
This coursebook is basic, it needs a lot of changes to help students to develop their learning strategies. Besides, activities presented need to be complemented with extra materials because it shows us a little review of the topics. Sometimes, we need add extra information to clarify ideas or more activities to understand the content.

MODULE 13: MATERIALS

COURSEBOOK


It is used to mean a textbook of which the teacher and each student has a copy, and which is in principle to be followed as the basis for a language course.
In favour of using a coursebook
　

Coursebook	Why?
Framework	It gives us a sense of structure and progress.
Syllabus	If it’s followed a planned and balanced selección of language content will be covered.
Ready-made texts and tasks	It provides texts and Earning tasks which are likely to be of and appropiate level for most of the class.
Economy	A book is the cheapest way of providing Earning material for each learner.
Convenience	A book is conveniente package.
Guidance	It can provide useful guidance and support.
Autonomy	A student without a coursebook is more teacher- dependent.

　
　
　
　
　Against using a coursebook
　

Coursebook	Why?
Inadequacy	It can´t supply every class needs.
Irrelevante	Topics may not be relevante OR interesting for your class.
Limitación	It may inhibit teacher´s initiative and creativity.
Homogeneity	It doesn´t provide a variety of levels of abilities and knowledge or learning styles and strategies.
Over- easiness	It too easy follows a coursebook.

　
　
Comment If I need expressing my point of view I have to say I´m for the use of coursebook instead against. However, coursebook must be taken as a guide, a structure to follow when we are organizing our course.
Points like inadequacy and irrelevante will be present in our life as a teacher because we can prepare a very good class, we have considered each factor but our class can be a complete failure.