TASK 6: EVALUATING ENGLISH TEXT BOOKS

Text Book: English Sentence Structure

Krohn, R. (1971). English Sentence Structure. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.

Based on website exploration, our group learned from:

https://www.slideshare.net/roerien/structural-syllabus-funtional-syllabus that structural syllabus is:

“Structural syllabus is constructed based on the theory that assumes that the grammatical or structural aspects of language form are the basic or useful.”

Krohn’s (1971) “English Sentence Structure” fits this definition of structural syllabus, therefore our group decided that this text book is developed based on structural syllabus.

According to wilkins:

“A synthetic language teaching strategy is one in which the different parts of a language are taught separately and step by step so that acquisition is a process of gradual accumulation of the parts until the whole structure of the language has been built up.”

Wilkin’s description on how structural syllabus is organized fits the way Krohn’s (1971) organize the material in textbook. The textbook contains explanation about grammatical features and forms.

References:

https://www.slideshare.net/roerien/structural-syllabus-funtional-syllabus  Retrieved on June, 5 – 2017

http://tanvirdhaka.blogspot.co.id/2009/11/structural-syllabus.html Retrieved on June, 5 – 2017