An Evaluation of Vocabulary Components in the Fourth Year Middle School English Coursebook'On the Move'

Abstract

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