Students’ perception of “American English File Multipack 3” – a study at people’s security university
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American English File Multipack 3, coursebook, perception, studentsAbstract
Coursebooks are of the utmost importance to language classes, and selecting a good textbook is of great value. Amongst them, the coursebook American English File Multipack 3 (AEF3) was chosen and has been used at People's Security University (PSU) for six years now. This study was designed to have a more critical view of AEF3 that could help identify features of the coursebook from PSU students' perspectives. Due to the scope of the study, only five aspects, namely Layout and design, Activities, Skills, Language type and Subject and content, were chosen to be investigated. In this study, a quantitative method was opted to conduct, and the data were accumulated through coursebook evaluation form returned by 85 students. The findings of the study revealed that under students' perspective, although there existed certain drawbacks in AEF3, was still evaluated positively. And thus, it is obvious that AEF3 is an appropriate coursebook for the context of PSU.
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