Résumé:
Textbook evaluation plays an imperative role in unveiling the weaknesses of the activities
meant for the teaching of the different aspects of a language as vocabulary. This study
attempts to examine the appropriateness of the vocabulary activities in the fourth year
middle school (MS) coursebook ‘On the Move’. The current study hypothesizes that if the
vocabulary components are presented adequately in ‘On the Move’ activities, fourth year
MS learners will develop their vocabulary. Hence, the dissertation in hand is composed of
three chapters, the first one concerns the vocabulary instruction, and the second one tackles
the issue of textbook evaluation. The third chapter, which is the practical part, explains
plainly the research methodology relied on in conducting this research. Concerning the
tools of research an adapted checklist to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the
coursebook in terms of the inserted vocabulary components and activities is used.
Moreover, a questionnaire was submitted to 15 fourth year middle school teachers of
English language who teach at 7 different middle schools in Jijel city in order to gather the
necessary data about their perspective towards the appropriateness of the vocabulary
activities and components included in ‘On the Move
