TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS AN IN-HOUSE EFL TEXTBOOK

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Published: Apr 1, 2015
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In-house textbook textbook evaluation teachers’ and students’ perceptions

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Apisara Sritulanon

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The in-house textbook, ‘English for Work’, was developed for use as English teaching materials and professional preparations. This study aimed to examine teacher and student perceptions towards the in-house textbook, after using it as the core teaching material of GE1003 English for Communication II course focusing on English used in the workplace. The participants were divided into two groups. The first group comprised eight teachers who taught GE1003 in the second semester of 2011 academic year. Those teachers had different teaching experience.  The second group were seventeen students from different faculties studying GE1003 English for Communication in a certain class. The interview was employed as a research tool to examine teacher and student perceptions. The group interview was used to examine teacher perception, whereas individual interviews were used to examine student perceptions. The data analysis was categorized based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards. The results showed that teachers and students had positive perceptions towards the in-house textbook, “English for Work”. In addition, they gave constructive comments which were useful not only to strengthen the good points of the textbook, but also to improve its weaknesses for the purpose of supporting students’ different learning strategies.

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Sritulanon, A. (2015). TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS AN IN-HOUSE EFL TEXTBOOK. Panyapiwat Journal, 7(1), 136–148. retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pimjournal/article/view/34036
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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): January-April
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Research Article

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