Title : An Evaluation of the Coursebook for Second Year Students of Co-operative University Using the Criteria for Textbook Evaluation of Jeremy Harmer

Authors : Lwin Lwin Myint Tin

Publication Date : 2017-12-01

Description : Students of the Cooperative University, Thanlyin have to learn Business English as the minor subject from first year until third year. “Business Result” is prescribed as the coursebook for the Cooperative University, Thanlyin. First year students’ coursebook is Business Result: Elementary; second year students’ coursebook, pre-intermediate; third year students’ coursebook, intermediate respectively. Of them all, the present study is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of “Business Result: Pre-intermediate” prescribed as the coursebook for second year students of the Cooperative University. The objectives of the research are to evaluate the effectiveness of the coursebook, to find out the students’ needs about their foreign language, and to discover whether the coursebook helps the students improve their language skills or not. In this study, this coursebook was evaluated by the students to find out whether it can help the students improve their language skills. The data were gathered from the results of the students’ responses to the respective questionnaires. This study shows the effective ways to help the students overcome the difficulties that they face whenever they learn Business English through their prescribed coursebook.