A Comparative Evaluation of Materials Selection in the Integrated Course of NHCE and NPCE

Lingjie ZHU, Qian HUANG

Abstract


Based on the theories of textbook evaluation, this research chooses materials from the first and second volumes of the Student’s Books in New Progressive College English Integrated Course (short for NPCE, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press in 2017) and New Horizon College English Reading and Writing Course (short for NHCE, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2015) as research subjects for comparison and analysis. The paper analyses the two sets of books in terms of language, contents and exercises according to the College English Course Requirements, and tries to find out which one can better cater for the needs of students. The comparative analyses mainly includes word quantity, word difficulty, word frequency, the proportion of new words, the total number of sentences and their complexity, the genres and topics of the texts and the comprehensiveness of exercises. Results indicate that NHCE is more suitable for students in terms of language and picks passages which have different emphases from NPCE and focuses more on arousing students’ thinking, while the topics and exercises in NPCE are more comprehensive. Both sets of books have their advantages and disadvantages. It is expected that this research will provide textbook compilers with help and reference in their future work.

 


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College English; NPCE; NHCE; Textbook evaluation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/12916

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