Evaluation of 3rd Year Secondary School Textbook “New Prospects” in Terms of: Target Culture Integration, Activities, and Tasks
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2024
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the textbook New Prospects of 3rd year of English of secondary school, and perceive teachers’ opinions and views towards the integration of Target Culture in the activities of New Prospects. In order to reach our objective, we opted for a descriptive method in which a questionnaire and a checklist are designed to evaluate the integration of the Target Culture and activities of New Prospects. Therefore, thirty (30) teachers are chosen randomly from different secondary schools in Khenchela and were asked kindly to complete the questionnaire to help us carry out our study. Moreover, a checklist is adopted in order to see to what extent the elements of the Target Culture are presented in the textbook of English of 3rd year. Results show that teaching language requires teaching its culture, and learners could be motivated more to learn foreign languages when they are exposed to its Culture. However, New Prospects doesn’t deal deeply with the Target Culture and designers of the book neglected many elements that should be taught to students such as: customs, food, beliefs, values… and they emphasize more on Education and History. Thus, some improvements should be done on the level of the educational curriculum of secondary schools.
Key words: textbook, evaluation, Culture, New Prospects.
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Boulouize, Moubarek., & Kouchar, Aazzeddine., & Ouniss, Salim. (2024). Evaluation of 3rd year secondary school textbook “new prospects” in terms of : Target culture integration, activities, and tasks (UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA). UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA.