從學習者觀點研究台灣國小英語教科書審定標準

A Study of Textbook Evaluation Criteria for Taiwanese Primary English Textbooks: Learners' Perspective

鍾佳臻(Chia-Chen Chung)

指導教授 ： 徐文正

中原大學/人文與教育學院/應用外語研究所/碩士(2009年)

https://doi.org/10.6840/CYCU.2009.00761

摘要

自從教育部實施開放教科書出版的政策後，台灣的教育市場就充滿了琳瑯滿目的教科書籍。一本良好的教科書不僅可以加強學生在學習上的效率與能力，更可以使老師在教學上更得心應手。隨著1994年教科書出版權的開放，管理教科書的品質對教育部來說，儼然成為一個重要的任務。隨著時代潮流的變遷，多年前教育部所提出的教科書審定資格可能將有不符潮流的情況，因此，此研究計畫以兩大不同方面來評估教育部的教科書審定是否適當，而兩大方面為：不同的教科書審定資格及受訪實際使用者(如：學生)的資料。本研究參考兩本著名，具代表性有關教科書審定之文獻- Cunningsworth (1995) 和Skireso (1991)，探究教科書審定的重要條件及標準，且與台灣學習環境做比較，選擇出適用於台灣的審定條件。而使用者實際的意見資料，提供本研究教科書目前實際使用情況的重要資訊。使用者的意見資料由問卷及訪問兩方面進行，問卷資料以SPSS分析工具來分析，而訪問的過程以錄音帶錄音並應主題來分析。本研究希望透過這個研究，可以提供適合及有效的教科書審定條件來確保及提升台灣的英語教科書的品質。

關鍵字

國小英語教科書 ； 教育部教科書審定 ； 英語教科書審定規準

並列摘要

After practicing the policy of releasing the right of textbook publishing to public in 1994, various types of textbooks have filled the market in Taiwan’s formal education. A good English textbook can facilitate students’ learning as well teachers’ instruction. Regulating the quality of the textbooks is an important task for the government, and thus standardized guidelines have been passed down from the authority. With the change of the trend, the existing English textbook evaluation criteria proposed by the government a decade ago may have grown out of fashion. Thus, this research examined the official criteria on the basis of various studies of textbook evaluation criteria, the features of the Taiwanese context, and the empirical data from questionnaires and interviews with the users (i.e. students). This study took two famous books in textbook evaluation, which are Cunningsworth (1995) and Skireso (1991) as reference to identify the significant factors in textbook evaluation. This study also compared the Taiwanese learning context to select the suitable factors that can apply for the textbook evaluation of Taiwan. The empirical data from the users provided important reference for checking the actual situation of textbooks in Taiwan. The empirical data were obtained from questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire data were analyzed by SPSS tool and the interview procedure was recorded by tapes and analyzed thematically. This research hopes that through the study of three perspectives, it can produce suitable and effective textbook evaluation criteria which can ensure and promote the qualities of English textbooks in Taiwan.

並列關鍵字

primary English textbook ； English textbook evaluation criteria ； evaluation criteria of MOE.

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