A tool to analyze oral competence development in EFL textbooks

  1. María Camino Bueno-Alastuey
  2. Gloria Luque Agulló
Revista:
Revista española de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 0213-2028

Año de publicación: 2015

Volumen: 28

Volumen: 1

Páginas: 73-96

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.28.1.04BUE DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Revista española de lingüística aplicada

Resumen

Even though the Common European framework of reference for languages has placed great emphasis on the teaching and learning of oral aspects and there is general agreement about the need to analyze oral competence development through checklists, the inventories developed so far to analyze textbooks are too general, not explicit enough or devote too little space to oral skills. Consequently, there is currently no specific instrument created to evaluate how oral competence is being fostered in English as a Foreign Language textbooks. This paper aims at filling this gap in research by presenting a tool to analyze oral skills development in EFL course books. The checklist was divided in four sections named background information, listening, speaking, and pronunciation, and included quantitative and categorical measures. The tool is presented in an abridged and an extended version to allow for a shorter and a more detailed scrutiny. A preliminary analysis using it showed a highly significant and excellent inter-rater agreement of 0.995 for numerical items and of 0.907 for categorical ones.

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