Evaluation of an ESP Textbook Entitled “Practice Your English Competence”
Teacher’s and Students’ Perspectives
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.085How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English for Special Purposes, multimedia, needs analysis, textbook evaluation, Vocational High Schools
- Abstract
Students’ needs should be taken into consideration in choosing textbooks for a vocational high school. This research aims to evaluate the relevance of a textbook entitled “Practice Your English Competence” to students’ needs of the multimedia major based on teachers’ and students’ perspectives. Data of this research were obtained from a multimedia class of a vocational high school in Bandung in the form of questionnaires and interviews. The data were analysed based on needs analysis proposed by Hutchinson and Waters, Nation and Macalister, in addition to evaluation survey questionnaires for students and teachers suggested by Litz. The results show that the book contains texts related to future employment, but the topics are not related to Multimedia. In other words, the book is not relevant to the students’ needs. However, this research suggests that the teacher should consider texts that are both related and unrelated to students’ expertise and future employment in choosing a textbook. The texts unrelated to the students’ expertise could be texts containing moral messages based on Curriculum 13 to balance students’ character development and skills for future employment.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Susan Santika AU - Yanty Wirza PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - Evaluation of an ESP Textbook Entitled “Practice Your English Competence” BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 562 EP - 567 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.085 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.085 ID - Santika2021 ER -