Week 4 Tutorial- Reflection

Week 4 Reflection- Developing Criteria for Textbook Evaluation- David Williams

 For this week’s tutorial, we had been given an article of David Williams with the title of “Developing Criteria for Textbook Evaluation”. After I went through the article, I found that the evaluation checklist proposed by Williams was quite simple and easy to be used especially for a pre-service teacher. In the checklist itself, Williams divided the criteria into different section, namely grammar, speech, vocabulary and few more. We can easily evaluate the textbook accordingly by referring to the checklist. On the other hand, it was found that the rating sections were not clearly explained in the article. This had aroused a bit of confusion as the ratings from 1-4 was not being mentioned which is good and which is bad. This was the only problem we encountered when using the checklist.

As a pre-service teacher, doing the evaluation was a new thing for me. However, after I had done with that, I can now come up with the idea on how to modify and develop new teaching materials when necessary.