The Communicative Aspect in the Post Listening/Speaking Tasks of Comet and New Prospects Textbooks: A Comparative Study
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2015
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present work deals with the evaluation of the post -listening/speaking tasks
encompassed in the previous version of the Algerian EFL textbook Comet (2001) and the
new version New Prospects (2007). It has attempted, to find out whether the oral tasks in
both course books are communicative, and if New Prospects as a substitution to Comet has
been improved as regards communication in post listening /speaking tasks. To carry out
our research, both qualitative and quantitative methods are used; we have conducted an
investigation of the textbooks’ speaking tasks following the framework for communicative
tasks analysis suggested by David Nunan (1989). For the sake of gathering more data to
consolidate our work, a questionnaire is administered to high school EFL teachers in Tizi
Ouzou and analyzed using both statistical method for close- ended questions and content
analysis for open- ended ones. The results reached out have confirmed that the newly
designed course book’s post-listening/speaking tasks are more communicative than those of
the previous one.
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154p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
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Language and Communication