The purpose of this study was to provide basic data to design a textbook by analyzing and comparing communicative functions of the textbooks most frequently used in the present first and second elementary school students.
To achieve this purpose, mai...
The purpose of this study was to provide basic data to design a textbook by analyzing and comparing communicative functions of the textbooks most frequently used in the present first and second elementary school students.
To achieve this purpose, main dialogue parts in a total of six English textbooks were analyized according to the spiral communicative functions categories under the 7th national curriculum. Elementary English textbooks are designed based on the structural communicative principle of the syllabus design, a mixture of the structural syllabus and the notional-functional syllabus, so as to make up for limitations of the pure communicative syllabus. The language syllabus design is an important comtempoary feature of effective language programs. Especially the systematic language syllabus and textbooks are pertinent to helping teachers set up appropriate EFL curriculum in Korea.
For this reason, the specific procedure of this study was each communicative functions and language forms have to be recycled proposed by Finocchiaro & Brunfit.
First, in a spiral, the communicative functions return to a functional category after its initial presentation.
Second, a familiar function may review, but give learners the possibility to handle more complex concepts within a grammatical category or within notions.
Third, the material studied previously is recalled, reviewed, and integrated with the new learing in the curriculum, a number of different functions may be clustered in one unit.
With the result of the analysis, as for communicative functions, all the textbooks try to cover various communicative skills, but more emphasis on such items as 'factual informing' and 'describing thing', which reflects the main goal of communication is the transation of information. And we can divide domestic textbooks and imported textbooks. In the domestic textbooks, various communicative functions was recycled, but language form was more reviewed in the imported textbooks.
In conclusion, the textbooks used for our learners are imported from the countries where English is primary used, and most of them are constituted on the basis of communicative competence. But the disposed communicative functions and language forms in those textbooks are considerably different from domestic textbooks. Communicative language learning could be the most effctive when students learn a systematic course of textbooks. Considering these, developing textbooks is urgent for the first and second elementary school students.