Résumé:
The present research has been conducted to investigate the effectiveness and
appropriateness of the writing tasks in the third year middle school course book ‘My book
of English’. It also attempts to shed light on the teacher’ perspectives and whether the
course book meets their expectations and objectives in teaching the writing skill. It based
on the hypothesis that if the course book ‘My book of English’ provides sufficient and
appropriate content for teaching the writing skill third year middle school(MS) pupils
would improve their writing. Hence, this research is composed of three chapters, the first
one is about text book evaluation and the second one concerns the writing skill under the
major teaching methods. The third chapter, which is the practical part, concerning the
research tools, an adapted checklist is used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the
course book ‘My book of English’ in terms of writing tasks. Besides, a questionnaire was
submitted to 15 third year middle school teachers working at eight different middle
schools in Jijel in order to gather the data about their perspective towards the
appropriateness of the writing tasks included in ‘ My book of English’ course book. The
results obtained showthat ‘My book of English’ coursebook is not really effective and
appropriate in teaching the writing skill and it does not match pupils’ actual level.
