Original scientific paper

CRITERIA FOR THE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS FROM THE ASPECT OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROPRIATENESS OF TOPICS

Nataša Košuta orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-6047 ; Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to provide a list of suggested criteria for the
analysis and evaluation of foreign language textbook topics in regard to
their developmental appropriateness. In teaching foreign languages, the
text is at the same time the source and the goal of learning and teaching.
We have therefore chosen to analyse text topics in textbooks with a special
emphasis on their developmental – emotional and social – appropriateness
in class, assuming that developmentally appropriate text topics will
motivate learners to communicate. The suggested criteria is based on the
most significant characteristics of the emotional and social development of
the target group (first-year students of German Language and Literature)
and the existing criteria for the analysis and evaluation of texts and tasks in
textbooks. The criteria was applied to two selected textbooks for German as
a foreign language used in higher education in Croatia and the
methodological implications drawn were based on the analysis.

Keywords

criteria for textbook evaluation, text topics, developmentally appropriate teaching, German as a foreign language, higher education

Hrčak ID:

289925

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289925

Publication date:

25.6.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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