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The Communicative Aspect in the Post Listening/Speaking Tasks of Comet and New Prospects Textbooks: A Comparative Study
(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2015) ABBAS, Kenza; BOUNAZEF, Nadia
The present work deals with the evaluation of the post -listening/speaking tasks encompassed in the previous version of the Algerian EFL textbook Comet (2001) and the new version New Prospects (2007). It has attempted, to find out whether the oral tasks in both course books are communicative, and if New Prospects as a substitution to Comet has been improved as regards communication in post listening /speaking tasks. To carry out our research, both qualitative and quantitative methods are used; we have conducted an investigation of the textbooks’ speaking tasks following the framework for communicative tasks analysis suggested by David Nunan (1989). For the sake of gathering more data to consolidate our work, a questionnaire is administered to high school EFL teachers in Tizi Ouzou and analyzed using both statistical method for close- ended questions and content analysis for open- ended ones. The results reached out have confirmed that the newly designed course book’s post-listening/speaking tasks are more communicative than those of the previous one.