The purpose of this study is to critically review the 6th curriculum for English and analyze the middle school English textbooks being currently used. After criticizing the problems of the 6th curriculum itself and the English textbooks, I suggest som...
The purpose of this study is to critically review the 6th curriculum for English and analyze the middle school English textbooks being currently used. After criticizing the problems of the 6th curriculum itself and the English textbooks, I suggest some reform measures in the curriculum planning and English textbook production in the future.
First of all, the 6th curriculum draft of Korea was critically reviewed, and the listening skills of the textbook produced by the 6th curriculum was analyzed. Among four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), listening skills are analyzed on the basis of the communicative language teaching principles.
The results of the textbook analysis on the basis of listening skills are as follow: the teaching contents designed for listening skills are not various, but concentrate on the specific teaching types. The teaching contents for listening skills are not according to the students' development priniciples stated clearly in the 6th curriculum.
As a conclusion, we need to develop move communicative techniques for listening skills in our English textbook. And we must take the problems revealed in the textbook analysis into consideration so that we can plan more developed curriculum and produce better English textbooks in the near future.