Textbook Writing

Program Pengembangan
Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris
5th Meeting
 Who am I?
• Ask me questions and try to know who I
am.
• So, who am I?
My Portfolios
What’s in your mind when you hear
the word ‘textbook’?
 Negative or Positive?
Negative
• Fail to present appropriate and
realistic language
• Fail to contextualize language
activities
• Inadequate cultural
understanding
• Fail to address discourse
competence
• gender problem
• Deskill teachers
Positive
• More accountable than
teacher-made material
• provide material, reviews and
visual record of progress for
students
• also give secure feeling to
learners
• provide various activities
• with good design and lay out
motivate learners to study
 Steps to Design a Textbook
• Consider a textbook as a system
• Define the context
• Articulate your beliefs
• Conceptualize the content
• Develop your material
 A System in a System

Process

Input Output
 Defining the Context
When we design a textbook we design it
for a specific group of people, in a specific
setting, for specific amount of time, in
short, for specific context.
Understand: the people (students &
stakeholders), physical setting, nature of
course, teaching resources, time
 Articulate Your Beliefs
beliefs about language
beliefs about the social context of language:
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociocultural issues
- Sociopolitical issues
beliefs about learning and learners
beliefs about teaching
 Conceptualizing the Content
 Thinking about what we want students to learn
in the course, given who they are, their needs,
and the purpose of the course.
 Making decision about what to include and
emphasize and what to drop.
organizing the content in away that will help us
to see the relationship among various elements
so that we can make decisions about objectives,
materials, sequence and evaluation.
 Writing a text book
1. Formulating the concept
2. Mapping
3. Drafting
4. Sending the draft to the editor
5. Checking the feedback
6. Sending the revised material for the lay out
7. Checking the white printed
8. The material is ready to be printed
Questions?
Thank you and see you!