"Adopting and Adapting an Existing Course Book" Chapter 11

INTRODUCTION The curriculum design is more than just an invention, it is a creation based on existing courses and books. Teaching must be matched to the learners’ current knowledge; and course books are supposed to be an effective support to continue building knowledge. “After working through this chapter you should be able to choose and adapt a course book in a systematic way, and justify your decisions...” Language curriculum design / I.S.P. Nation and John Macalister. The process must be carefully studied and evaluated with some interesting points which would be developed in the next chapter by way of a reaction essay. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The main topic regarding this chapter is a book. It is all about dividing the parts of the book and planning course material. I believe that, the author tries to convince us, about the idea of having to follow one book. On the other hand, I disagree in one thing; I know it is good to have a very well book in order to make classes easier, but at the same time it makes teacher and students more dependant of it and whenever they do not have it, they feel lost. It is undeniably necessary; to have a book course only if it would be used as a guidance and not as the supplant teacher. Moreover, I would love the idea of having a very organized and advanced book for teachers as well, so that we make the classes more interesting, significant and worth it for the students. Finally, I consider a source and a course book, both, should be available for teachers and students at any time. As well as teachers should be ready to teach the students with internet and multimedia stuff as a supporting-extra matter. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the topic of a course book in a curriculum design should not be definitely taken lightly. Instead, it should bring to our minds the idea of considering goals, content and sequencing, as well as the format and presentation and the monitoring and evaluation. For many teachers the evaluation of course books are more important than designing courses because their teaching situation decides that they should work from a course book. For me, it should be clear that evaluating a course book is a small but important exercise in curriculum design. No matter if we like to following an standardized book, we need to comprehend it is an important part of a curriculum design and so should be for us when it comes to teaching.