Annales de l’université d’Alger
Volume 20, Numéro 2, Pages 75-79
2011-11-30
A Review Of A Reading Textbook: Reading First
Authors : Hamitouche Fatiha .
Abstract
This article is a review of a reading textbook. It examines and comments on Reading First, a textbook on reading by Robertshaw et al, as concerns the form, the content, the level and goal it is intended for, as well as its overall organization: textbook, texts, skills, tasks. These points are discussed in relation to issues and principles in reading. The textbook examined is intended for foreign students at beginners‘ level of English as a second language (ESL) at an English speaking university. It seems, however, that the term ‗beginners‘ is not clear, does it refer to low-beginners, high-beginners, low-intermediate, intermediate ? The use of these terms, to mean different things by different people, is relative. However, from the kind of texts and activities offered in the book, it seem s that the students it is intended for are not "real" beginners but rather high/upper beginners or lowintermediate / pre-intermediate entering an American university. It is assumed for instance that they already possess the basic grammatical notions.
Keywords
textbook;texts;tasks;skills;These;English speaking;real;American university
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