BUSINESS RESULT: ADVANCED - STUDENT’S BOOK, SECOND EDITION - REVIEW AND CRITICAL EVALUATION

Boglarka Kiss Kulenović

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP2203557K
First page
557
Last page
562

Abstract


The article reviews and critically evaluates the second edition of Business Result: Advanced – Student’s Book by Kate Baade, Christopher Holloway, John Hughes, Jim Scrivener and Rebecca Turner. After a brief overview of the structure of the coursebook, the article evaluates the coursebook and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, taking into consideration characteristics such as suitability of topics to the interests of target learners, suitability of teaching approach to the needs of target learners, recycling and revision of material, coverage of all four language skills, use of authentic materials (texts and audio), use of authentic tasks and flexibility of use. The article concludes with a recommendation for course instructors on the use of this coursebook.


Keywords

coursebook evaluation, review, communicative language teaching approach, authentic tasks, Business English, Business Result: Advanced

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP2203557K

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