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Do you think
coursebooks are
important?

Importance of
coursebook

What are your

criteria for
choosing a
coursebook?

Criteria for
choosing a
coursebook

Which part(s) of
the coursebook do Parts of CB most
you frequently
used
use?

Which part(s) do
you seldom use?

Parts of CB seldom
used

When do you
Context/Reasons
supplement the
to supplement
coursebook? Why?

How do you
supplement the
coursebok?

Procedure or
activities to
supplement

What kind of help

would you like to
have from the
Kind of help in
coursebook in the teaching grammar
teaching
grammar?

What kind of help

would you like to
Kind of help in
have from the
teaching
coursebook in the
pronunciation
teaching
pronunciation?

What kind of help

would you like to
Kind of help in
have from the
teaching lexis
coursebook in the
teaching lexis?

What kind of help

would you like to
Kind of help in
have from the
teaching skills of
coursebook in the
the language
teaching skills of
the language?

Participants
I do think course book are necessary, they are good guide for
teachers, they can help you to get many ideas to plan your own
lesson and to guide your lesson in the way that you want,
course books would be very good or could very bad depending
how you use them, it can become addict, but that is something
else. In a general views are good for guiding teachers.
Lets see At the university level our criteria has to do with the
goal we need to achieve, is the kind of level we want from the
student, so based on that , we chose textbook related to the
Cambridge tests. In school it would depends what the stress of
English classes in school, depending on the hours, if I have two
hour a week I will choose a very simple book, if I have six hours
a week I will choose a book that will give me more activities
including maybe a work book to work with and audios.

I would say almost everything, because books are divided in

the four skills, but the most frequently would be speaking
activities then listening, reading and writing in that order, and
also I find the teachers book a very good resource as well.

Writing, I do not stress the writing skill that much or the

writing exercises, because its a little bit time consuming for
the class.
When the grammar point or when the structure is a little bit
difficult for the students depending on the level, I would add
extra information and when there is time, if I have a good
balance of time and I can do extra activities apart from the
course book I usually put them there, If not, If I find that the

I use the grammar as a guide and then I bring more exercises

related to that I would create worksheets or I would use the
laboratory on the students will work on line the exercises that
they already done on the web mmm and then maybe some
in media practice or practice that the students can do in the
moment, yes.

Usually the definition of the grammar point are very brief, are
not very clear if the student should learn only from that
grammar point I dont think it would be enough, so I would say
that the grammar point should be more explanatory a little bit
more, it should have a little more information for the students,
for me its okay because we can find information somewhere
else or we can base also we can trust in the teachers book for
that, but I would say that the grammar should be extend a
little bit, its too short.

When there is a pronunciation or there is a text that it should

been the audio, its important to have the audio and maybe the
transcript as well that you can usually get through the
teachers book and that the book brings all the material. The cdroom or the audio that come from the book, the coursebook
audio or the cd.

Usually brings, shows a lot of words It brings at the end of

the book they usually gives you or at the end of lesson or at the
end of the book they usually show a list of words, usually by
alphabet, it sometimes is divided by unites and the definitions
are not very clear, sometime it only have the words and the
pronunciation maybe but not the definition or not the part of
the speech, for example it doesnt say if it a noun or a verb or
maybe only that, but theres not definition, but only for the

I think with the teaching skills aaah, it depends on the

teaching style, you have all this exercises, you have a topic, you
have a way to teach it and then you adapt it to your own style,
so Im okay to have the topic, the grammar point and the
exercises and with that I can get my own point of view when
teaching the different language skills, I think I can adapt it, I
like what I see If I like what I see I can expand it or not, so its
okay how it comes, it helps me with the idea and with the idea
I can expand it a little bit more.

COMMENTS
The teacher explained that the use of the coursebook depend
mainly on the use that it receive, if the teacher utilizes it in a
good way he/she can have good results in terms of
teaching/learning. Also, the teacher explained that a teacher
can take many activities of it, because most of these are good
and it can be used as a guide in the class. So he/she allows the
use of coursebooks.

The teacher explained that he/she chooses a coursebook

depending on the goal of the course and the level in which it
would be used; the numbers of hours and the activities that it
brings it is an important factor as well.

The teacher elections of the activities are very accurate,

because he/she prefers activities related to the speaking ability
and then immediately activities related to listening, those skills
are very connected because their use reinforce each other and
allow a good complementation in the process of learning a
language. The same with reading and writing which are his/her
second option.

For the teacher the writing part implies too much time
implementing in a class and the learning process to apply it
would be slow.
The teacher explained that if he/she considers that the
coursebook is too difficult for students, maybe because they
do not have the knowledge for that level of demanding or the
activities are not very well explained mainly in the grammar
point, he/she will add extra activities and information for the
This answer is similarand it is a complementation to the
previous answer, because the teacher explained that the
grammar point could be difficult in coursebooks but he/she use
it as guide for his/her classes, and he/she prefers develop
hi/her own method of work in class, for example, create
his/her own worksheets or work in media practice, which is
very useful because we can find lots of activities on internet.

The teacher follows his/her posture saying that the grammar in

coursebooks is not good for teaching the students, it is not
explanatory, but for the teacher is not a real problem because
he/she is able to find information somewhere else, this is good
because show that the teacher interviewed have creativity in
terms of realize activities in class, also he/she mention the
teachers book saying that is a good resource as well in this
case.

For teaching pronunciation the teacher focuses in the extra

resources that the coursebook should have which is the CDROOM, nowadays most of the course brings with it and it is
very useful, because it have the audios and activities related to
the specific level, also the teacher mention the transcript that
the teachers book should bring as a help for them to teach it to
students.
For teaching lexis (vocabulary) the teacher said that the
coursebooks are good, because it brings the words that the
students should know by the end of the lesson, but there is
missing something, it could be better if it brings the definition
and the part of the speech in the list of words that it has. It is
really true, because according with the coursebook that we
analized the list of words are normally at the end but there is
nothing else, just the words, and if we do not know the

For the teacher teach the skills of the language depend mainly
on the criteria of every teacher and their style, every teacher
adapts the content of the coursebook and teachs it in the most
comfortable way for them.