Reflection on Tutorial Task Week 4/5

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10:32 PM
For this task, we are asked to choose one article regarding to the checklist for evaluating materials and the article title is “Choosing & Evaluating Textbooks” by Neville Grant.

This is what I can conclude from the lesson:

1. Textbook evaluation is crucial as it gives teachers the opportunity to adjust what they want to distribute to the learners. Different learners require different approaches. Therefore, teachers need to know who their students are, what are their levels what kind of approaches that are suitable for them and so on. From this lesson, I realize that we need to evaluate textbooks or even any materials that we want to adapt in our classroom. This is where we expect the effectiveness of the material or precisely, the textbook.

2. Teachers need to become aware of the range of textbooks and also evaluations available out there. There are abundant textbooks and also evaluations that we can pick and adapt. During this lesson, I realized that there is a need to choose the suitable evaluation checklist in order to end up adopting the right book. There is always a right book for the learners, teachers just need to figure it out.

3. I personally liked the evaluation because it is really easy to use, it is not complicated compared to other checklists. It is also quite moderate and user-friendly in terms of its arrangement. There are also stages where we need to look at the surface, and also in-depth.

There is a lot that we gained from this week lesson as we can apply it later in the future especially the exposure that we get about the importance of textbook evaluation and how to evaluate it critically.

About the author

Nur Nabilah Huda Binti Hamdan, 21 years old from Kuala Lumpur. Currently pursuing Bachelor of Education with Honours in TESL, University of Sabah, Malaysia.

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