Journal Report (The Result) "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs"

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Welcome back to my blog. So in this section, the author explained about the result of his research paper. The journal I read was about education with title "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs". 

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Some teachers expressed concerns about students’ inability  to  cover  all  the  materials  included  in  one lesson  within  the  45-minute  period,  especially  with mixed-level  groups.  Though  in  the  Writing  Module learners  were  required  to  create  the  draft  of  their written product in class and then self- or peer-assess it according to the set criteria, it was not always possible to do so.

As  such  misunderstanding  of  methodology was    revealed,  the  approach  taken  was explained in  Teachers’  Notes.  In  the  course,  the  attempt  was made  to  combine  product  and  process  approaches to  writing. Based   on   teachers’   evaluation,   flaws   and inconsistencies   in   instructions   were   corrected.

Each module  (skill)  was  evaluated  separately though  the  participants  were  also  encouraged  to describe the overall impression. However,  there  were  learners and  teachers  who  requested  such  tasks  to be  set  as homework.

To satisfy  those  needs,  more  activities  were 

developed and introduced. These tasks were aimed at the  development  of  learners’  linguistic  competence, in terms  of  reception  and  production,  and  they also  included  strategy  training  and  microskills development (such as using appropriate word order, or achieving cohesion and coherence in writing).

Learners were also encouraged to give quantitative and qualitative feedback on the materials they tried in the classroom. As  for  difficulty  of materials, some learners found them too challenging and some too easy.

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Journal Report (3) "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs"

Halo people!! 

Welcome back to my blog. So in this time I want to review the journal that I read. The journal I read was about education with title "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs". 

So let's start !!!

As it has been mentioned, the essential learners’ needs,  the  microskills  they  need  to  master  to successfully  function  in  the  academic  environment and the texts they have to deal with, were identified at the first stages of the project. However, the materials evaluation  stage,  piloting  in  this  case,  gave  the authors an opportunity to discover more needs and to redesign the materials in accordance.

What  teachers  and  learners  were  asked  to  assess were:

1. Timing

2. Difficulty of materials

3. Relevance

4. Variety

5. Clarity of instruction (classrooms materials)

6. Clarity of guidance (teachers’ notes)

7. Language support

8. Visuals

9. Sequencing

10. Learners’ motivation

Both  teachers  and  learners  were  encouraged  to complete  the  evaluation  survey  and  to  give  verbal qualitative feedback in the written form, the learners gave  their  evaluations  in  Russian  and  the  teachers in  English. survey  and  to  give  verbal qualitative feedback in the written form, the learners gave  their  evaluations  in  Russian  and  the  teachers 

in  English.  However,  not  every  teacher  managed to cover all four modules with the number of responses in each section may differ. 

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Journal Report (2) "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs"

Halo people!! 

Welcome back to my blog. So in this time I want to review the journal that I read. The journal I read was about education with title "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs". 

So let's start !!!

There is no uniform view on what constitutes needs analysis. Needs analysis is viewed as both a process aimed at determining the needs for which a learner or groups of learners  requires a language and arranging the needs according to priorities and techniques for collecting and assessing information relevant to course design. 

There  are  multiple  ways  in  which  needs  analysis can  be  carried  out.  Long describes  the following methods nonexpert and expert intuitions, unstructured  and  structured  interviews,  surveys  and questionnaires, language audits, observations, diaries, analysis of corpora and discourse, etc.

Researchers claim that the outcomes of a needs analysis are more objective when the triangulation method is implemented, that is  information  from  various  sources  is  considered. Moreover,  "To  increase  reliability  and  validity,  data should ideally be collected from two or more sources using two or more methods". 

It is necessary to acknowledge that needs analysis cannot be the only source of information for course designers to base their decisions on; more factors have to be taken into account. For example, in the  case  of  the  "English  for  Academics" project,  the experience  of  which  is  going  to  be discussed  in  the article.

However, Hyland points out that needs analysis should be on going to dynamic. Normally, teachers are responsible for adjusting materials to the immediate of their learners. 

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