Abstract

Nicaragua published its first series of textbooks for the teaching of English in public secondary schools in 2016. This article reports on an investigation of the first three textbooks belonging to this series. The aim was to see how the textbooks follow up the Nicaraguan national curriculum, which emphasizes the need for learners to develop communication skills. We discuss the approaches with reference to principles of communicative language teaching and Nation’s four strands for a well-balanced language course. We identify significant discrepancies between the three books and, thus, a lack of progression in the course. The investigation is also an example of the affordances of our analytical tool for textbook analysis.

中文翻译：

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教科书分析：第一个尼加拉瓜ELT系列的案例

抽象的

尼加拉瓜于2016年出版了其第一本公立中学英语教科书系列。本文报道了对该系列前三本教科书的调查。目的是了解教科书如何跟进尼加拉瓜国家课程，该课程强调学习者必须培养沟通技巧。我们将参考交际语言教学的原则以及国家均衡学习语言课程的四个方面来讨论这些方法。我们发现这三本书之间存在重大差异，因此在课程中缺乏进步。该调查也是我们的分析工具可用于课本分析的一个例子。