THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE STANDARDS IN EXPERT EVALUATION OF ENGLISH COURSEBOOKS
The consistent tendencies towards the standardization of education result in the implementation of language standards in different countries and regions of the world. The conditions of their emergence and functioning define the language conventions specified in the standards as the basis of foreign language learners’ linguistic competence. The language of coursebooks of English is considered to be the source for their linguistic experts’ evaluation. The language standards being used to evaluate the coursebooks lead on to developing a set of criteria for such an evaluation including the area of cross-cultural communication and communication strategies in general as well as the acquisition of concrete lexical, grammatical and functional units of language.
Keywords: language standards, competence, competency, competency-based approach, the language of coursebooks of English, linguistic analysis of coursebooks, expert evaluation of coursebooks
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Issue: 1, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 1
Rubric: TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN HIGH SCHOOL
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