Communicative Language Teaching

Do Tasks and Activities in School Textbooks Facilitate Learners’ Development of Communicative Competence

Bibliographic Data

ID21805341
AuthorsCang Trung Nguyen (0000-0002-3885-797X), Diem Thi Kieu Le, Diem Le (La Trobe University)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue5
Pages688
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language Teaching and Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1798-4769 • E-ISSN: 2053-0684
PublisherAcademy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17507/jltr.1105.04
OpenAlexW3080810553
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

This paper reports a theoretical evaluation and findings from teachers’ and students’ evaluations of activities and tasks in English 6, an English textbook from a series of four textbooks which have been used as the compulsory textbooks for all students from grades 6 to 9 (ages 12 to 16) in all junior secondary schools in Vietnam since 2001 (Nguyen, 2005). It presents results from a study which involved 8 teachers and 126 students in four secondary schools in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Combining a theoretical evaluation and the analysis of the data collected from the questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and classroom observation. It is concluded that there is a lack of a variety of activities and tasks and they mostly focus on form. Therefore, they do not help develop learners’ communicative competence. The present study also draws implications regarding how to use teaching materials effectively for EFL/ESL for developing learners’ communicative competence

Communicative competence · Communicative language teaching · Language education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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