摘要
The evaluation of an English course book is very important for a language teacher to gauge whether the book is effective or not in developing the learners' language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. There are a wide variety of English course books for non-English majors at present in China. In addition, there are various evaluations of English language teaching materials in foreign countries. There is also some evaluation of English course books available in China. However, the evaluation in China seem to be book reviews, which focus on the design of the course books, the content of the book and so on. This article proposes an evaluation plan based on Ellis (1997,1998), which involves the approach to be adopted, content, methods to collect data and data analysis, hoping to raise awareness of evaluation of teaching materials in China and to provide some rationale for the evaluation of a course book. The course book used as an example for the evaluation is the New College English (students' book) edited by the English Language Department of Zhejiang University and published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, China. The evaluation focuses on the grammatical items, vocabulary, reading practice, listening practice and functional speaking in the book.
英语教材的评估对语言教师评价教材在开发和培养学生听、说、读、写等的语言能力方面是否有效和有用起着很重要的作用。目前我国面向大学非英语专业学生的英语教材种类繁多,国外有英语教学材料的评估,但国内尚无有关英语教材的评估,因而本文依据Ellis(1997 ,1998)提出的有关教学材料的评估的理论提出了一套评估非英语专业教材的方案,目的是让教师了解如何评估教材从而确定教材是否有效和实用,从而为如何评价教材提供一定的理论依据。本方案涉及评估采用的方法,评估内容,数据收集及数据分析(Ellis 1997 ,1998)。该方案以浙江大学主编、外语教学与研究出版社出版的《新编大学英语》(学生用书)第一册第四单元为例,侧重于对该套教材的语法、词汇、阅读及听力内容的编排的评估。
