AN EVALUATION OF ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS COURSEBOOK PRESCRIBED FOR FIRST YEAR BA (EPP) STUDENTS
Abstract
- This research evaluated English for Business Coursebook prescribed for first year BA (EPP) students. English for Business course has been offered in the Bachelor of Arts specializing in English for Professional Purposes (BA (EPP)) Programme since 2004-2005 Academic Year with the purpose of fulfilling the needs of graduates who want to work in various business fields when they graduate. The reason of doing this research was to investigate whether the coursebook is matched the level of first year BA (EPP) students. Firstly, the prescribed coursebook was studied and analysed using the criteria for business English coursebook evaluation proposed by Romanowski (2016) which were based on the theories of Hutchinson and Water (1987), Cunningsworth (1995), McGrath (2002) and McDonough and Shaw (2013) in order to examine what knowledge and skills the coursebook contain. Secondly, teachers who have taught English for Business Course in the first year were given a questionnaire to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the coursebook based on their teaching experience. Then first year BA (EPP) students were given a questionnaire to find out their views and opinions on the lessons in the coursebook. After that, the data collected from the questionnaires were analysed. Finally the results of coursebook evaluation and those of questionnaires were compared and contrasted. The finding was that the contents and skills included in the prescribed English for Business coursebook were suitable and helpful for first year BA (EPP) students. The suggestion was to add communicative and challenging grammar activities for a better teaching-learning process.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Mya Mya
Subject
- English
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)