1. Coursebook interview and coursebook analysis
Students: Graciela Concha and Francisco Oñate
Teacher: Maria Gabriela Sanhueza
Course: Methodology

2. Coursebook Interviews
Interviewers: Graciela Concha and Francisco Oñate.
Eliciting teacher’s view on coursebooks
Teacher’s name: Hector Vega.
1. Do you think coursebooks are important?
Answer: Coursebooks can be very important and can facilitate teachers’ roles in many
occasions. I believe they are important because they give you general guidance.
2. What are your criteria for choosing a coursebook?
Answer: when we began this programme we had to choose textbook and we tried to find
a textbook which was challenging, comprehensive and which included or integrated skills.
That, I think is an important issue. And that it can be clear for teachers and clear for
students, so that when as students check the coursebook you clearly know what you are
going to be learning.
3. Which part (s) of the coursebook do you frequently use and which part(s) do you
seldom use?
Answer: I believe that the one that I do not use very much is the one about pronunciation,
the one that deals with stress and pronunciation patterns. I use the grammar tips, the
grammar lesson, listening, and vocabulary items. I do not usually skip a lot from a
textbook except some phonological aspects which I usually do not have time to deal with.
But I would usually use most aspects of the coursebook.
4. When, why and how do you supplement the coursebook?
Answer: when I feel that students need extra help. Usually all books can be supplemented
with extra material, websites, videos. To supplement it or not will depend on students
proficiency, if they are proficient enough maybe you do not need any extra material but if
you feel that students are weak you may provide some extra material or help so that
students can really get to command the linguistics aspects that you are intending to teach.
5. What kind of help would you like to have from the coursebook in teaching grammar
or any other aspects of the language?
Answer: It would be interesting to have a coursebook in which you could deal with
grammar in a context of a text or discourse and from there you could get some
grammatical aspects. So, not just items in isolation.

3. Eliciting learner’s view on coursebooks
Learner’s name: Isaias Cruces (second year student)
1. How often do you use your coursebook?
Answer: Once a week for Communicative competences.
2. Which part (s) of it do you use most frequently and which part(s) do you seldom use?
Answer: We frequently use the grammar part of the coursebook. The one that we seldom
use is the speaking part.
3. Which part of the book do you like best and which part do you like least?
Answer: I like the reading part of the book but I don’t like the speaking part because it is
too controlled and organised.
4. Is the coursebook important to you?
Answer: yes, it is because it helps to develop vocabulary skills
5. What kind of coursebook would you like to have?
Answer: I would really like to have a grammar coursebook in which I could have more
practise in the aspect of use of English.
6. Do you like the coursebook you have now?
Answer: I have the straightforward coursebook and I like it because it has many exercises
and it is very helpful for students.

4. Coursebook analysis
Factual details
Author(s): Tonya Trappe & Graham Tullis
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Price: 41.99 $
ISBN: 9781408255995
Nº of pages: 176
Components: Course book and audio CD
Level: Intermediate
Physical size: 216mm x 279mm x 8mm
Length: 1 year
Units: 15
Lessons/Sections: 15 units without specified individual lessons.
Hours:
Target skills: Reading, listening, writing, speaking
Target learners: International business men
Target teachers: Teachers who apply communicative approach
Rationale: Communicative approach
Availability: Hard to find in Chilean store books and expensive
User definition: The book is designed to develop grammar and vocabulary in written and
spoken contexts, and to develop communicative skills and strategies according to the
current business context
Layout/graphics: The book contains pictures which cover 25% of the whole pages. There
is not a great variety of colours; the predominant ones are white and grey.
Accessibility: Not available in Chile
Linkage: Exercises are linked with a text, oral or written. Grammar and vocabulary are
shown in a context, not in isolated examples.
Selection/grading: The book follows a sequence, but the units are independent among
them.
Physical characteristic: The book has a small size, it is light and do not use much space in a
backpack or handbag.
Appropriacy: The coursebook is for an intermediate business class. It has an area which
deals with the student’s personal life as a professional. Also it combines vocabulary with
speaking which is fundamental for them when trying to work with foreign people. We
think that it is appropriate for the kind of students it is supposed to be.
Authenticity: This coursebook is mostly authentic. It uses several texts which were written

5. for native speakers.
Educational validity:
stimulus/practice/revision: the coursebook states three main steps of the class. We can
find for instance, pre-reading activities, while-reading activities and post-reading activities.
Flexibility: this coursebook gives the teacher the chance to adapt some activities and also
to supplement it.
Guidance: this coursebook is easy to be use by a businessman with a intermediate level of
English but with some guidance needed.
Overall value for money: the price of the book is $41.99, an accessible price for a
professional person.