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    Project-Based Learning in the Algerian Secondary School Syllabuses and Textbooks
    (2011) AIMEUR, Roza
    The present work represents an attempt to investigate the implementation of ProjectBased Learning in the Algerian Seconadry School syllabuses and their corresponding textbooks, namely At the Crossroads, Getting Through and New Prospects. It strives to find whether these instructional documents, issued within the framework of the recent reform of the Educational System, favour the integration of the pedagogy of the project into English Language Teaching. To this end, we have first conducted a thorough examination of the syllabuses in relation to the principles of the project-based syllabus proposed by Finch (2008), Nunan (2004) and others and Dubin’s and Olshtain’s framework for the components of the language syllabus that they offered in their book bearing the title Course Design: Developing Programmes and Materials for Language Learning (1986). We have then drawn attention to the textbooks relying on Fredricka L. Stoller’s model (1997) for the completion of project work in the language classroom. For the sake of collecting more information about the issue addressed in this study, we have adopted a checklist as a research technique. Although some drawbacks are noticed, our research findings reveal that the conception of learning proposed in the textbooks and in the syllabuses they flesh out give prominence to Project-Based Instruction