Potential Student Decision Making in Academic ESL Grammar Textbooks
✍ Scribed by Joan Lesikin
- Book ID
- 104353881
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-5898
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✦ Synopsis
This article presents research on the potential of four intermediate-level ESL grammar textbooks to provide student control of learning, based on the textbook authors' presentation of student decision-making opportunities in tasks. Textbook tasks were analyzed for the potential controller of learning conditions related to content choice, procedure options, and evaluation techniques, based on the studies of Grannis. The findings suggest that students potentially have few choices and thus little control of the educational process. The majority of tasks may train students primarily for bureaucratic jobs while the focus on right answers may impede language learning. ESL teachers need to mediate a textbook's potential to control if the goal is to create learners who have some control over their own learning through curricular decision-making.