A. Choose the best answer for the following questions.
Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Petter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Petter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGreagor. Petter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Petter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, milk and blackberries for supper.
1. The text tells the story of ….
a. The rabbits
b. The naughty rabbit
c. Mopsy
d. Mr. McGreagor
e. Flopsy
2. Who was the naughty rabbit?
a. Flopsy d. Petter
b. Mopsy e. McGregor
c. Cotton-tail
3. We know from the second paragraph that
Petter….
a. had some bread, milk, and blackberries.
b. was sick because he was frightened.
c. didn’t obey his mother’s advice
d. went down the lane.
e. likes to drink medicine better than milk.
4. What is the purpose of the text above?
a. To retell events for the purpose of informing about rabbit
b. To persuade the reader that we should obey our parent’s advice
c. To entertain and deal with actual or problematic events which in turn finds are solution
d. To persuade the reader that the naughty rabbit is the case.
e. To retell an event with a humorous twist.
5. Petter was very frightened and and rushed away as fast as he could.
What does the italic word mean?
a. moved d. hid
c. jumped e. ran very fast
d. cried
To make fried rice, you will need some rice, vegetables, meat and eggs. The best vegetables to use are onions, garlic, tomatoes, and cucumber.
First, cut up the meat into very small pieces and fry it in a pan. Then cut up the onions and garlic and fry them. Now you can break in two or three eggs. At the same time, cook the rice in another pan, when the rice is cooked, add it to the meat, vegetables, and eggs in the pan. Stir the mixture and add salt, pepper, and other spices. Put the fried rice on the plate and serve it with sauce, if you like. Finally cut up a cucumber into thin slices and place the slices on top of the rice. Fried rice is ready to be eaten.
6. The text describe how ….
a. to make fried chicken
b. to slice onion
c. to make fried rice
d. to eat fried rice
e. to serve fried rice
7. When shall we stir the mixture of all ingredients?
a. after the rice added to other materials.
b. before we cook the eggs
c. before the rice added to all materials
d. at the same time we cook the rice.
e. at the end of the step.
8. Add it to the meat … (paragraph 2). The word ‘it’ refers to….
a. meat d. onion
b. rice e. cucumber
c. salt
9. The type of the text is….
a. Analytical exposition d. spoof
b. Descriptive e. procedure
c. hortatory exposition
10. Finally cut up cucumber into thin slices,
The antonym of the italic word is….
a. fat d. thick
b. small e. slim
c. round
Young generation mostly like music concerts; rock concert even dangdut concert. But we must concern with them because music concert especially dangdut concert usually present wild impacts on young generation.
Many controversies have sprung around this kind of music. Those who cannot tolerate dangdut music consider it a negative influence on young people.
There are those who don’t approve of the way dangduters dress and behave. They often considered their acts as such kinds of pornography and porno action which really contradicts with religious ideology.
There are also occasions where teenagers commit suicide after going to such a concert or listening to the music. Such cases strengthened the conviction of many people that dangdut music is truly a bad influence.
From those cases we must concern with our young generation and appeal the entertainment promoters not to hold dangdut concert because it usually present wild impacts on young generation.
11. The text mainly tells about ….
a. Young generation
b. Music concert
c. Pornography
d. The impact of music concert
e. The negative influence of dangdut concert.
12. Which one of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
a. Dangdut concert gives positive impact.
b. People allow the Music promoters to hold dangdut concert.
c. Dangut concert presents negative impact on young generation.
d. We don’t have to concern with young generation.
e. Dangdut music is my country.
13. …we must concern with young generation…(paragraph 4).
The italic word means….
a. pay attention
b. patient
c. kind
d. hold a concert
e. punish
14. …it usually present wild…(paragraph 4). The word ‘it’ refers to….
a. young generation
b. dangduters
c. Dangdut concert
d. people
e. entertainment promoter.
15. What is the social function of the text bove?
a. To share with others an unusual incident
b. To represent and describe a particular place
c. To entertain, to amuse the reader
d. To persuade the reader/ listener that dangdut concert has to be avoided by
teenagers.
e. To retell the story of someone’s experience.
While John Gilbert was in hospital, he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused to do so.
The following day, the patient asked for a bedside telephone. When he was alone, He telephones the hospital exchange and asked for doctor
16. What is the best title of the text above?
a. Hospital d. John Gilbert
b. The operation e. Wrong number
c. I am the patient
17. Which is NOT TRUE based on the text?
a. John Gilbert was a patient
b. John called the doctor
c. Dr. Millington told him the result of the operation.
d. The doctor knew that the caller was John Gilbert.
e. The operation had been successful.
18. What is the type of the text?
a. Spoof d. Narrative
b. Descriptive e. procedure
c. Recount
19. …but the doctor refused to do so… (Paragraph 1). The underlined word means….
a. rejected d. accepted
b. avoided e. liked
c. Agree
20. What are the organizations of the text above?
a. Identification-description
b. Abstract-orientation-crisis-reaction-coda
c. Orientation-complication-resolution
d. Thesis-argument-reiteration
e. Orientation-events-twist
My uncle has four beautiful great villas. One of them I ever visited is located in
In front of the villa there is a fountain. It is surrounded by some beautiful flowers. Not far from the fountain is a large swimming pool. The pool is divided into two parts; one for adults and one for children. There are some large umbrellas and some chairs under the umbrellas.
21. What is the best title for the passage?
a. A beauty of a house’s scenery.
b. My uncle’s beautiful Villa
c. A large swimming pool
d. My Beautiful Villa
e. A colorful park
22. How many villa does uncle owned in
a. one d. four
b. two e. none
c. three
23. Where does the swimming pool placed?
a. near the hill
b. behind the villa
c. between the fountain and umbrella
d. in front of the villa
e. inside the villa
24. The word “them” in the sentence “One of
them I’ve ever ….” (p. 1) refers to…
a. The Swimming pool d. The villa
b. The umbrellas e. The flowers
c. My uncle’s villas
25. Gina : Did you see the news last night on TV?
Nuri : Yes I did. It was said that the suicide bombing in
Gina : Yeah, …..
a. isn’t this great?
b. I’m so sad to see that.
c. don’t annoy me please.
d. I’m really anxious.
e. I’m glad it’s done
26. Look at the boy’s eyes! There’s no ….
a. frighten
b. frightening
c. fear
d. frightened
e. afraid
27. “Your son will be operated tomorrow, so he …. have a good rest tonight”, the doctor said.
a. might
b. may
c. can
d. would rather
e. must
28. Lenny : Did Ronny go to the party last night?
Lily : Yes, …. he had a lot of assignment, he insisted on going.
a. however
b. since
c. moreover
d. but
e. although
29. If he worked harder, he would get a better salary.
We learn from this sentence that ….
a. a better salary makes him work harder
b. he works hard and gets better salary
c. working hard makes him get better salary
d. he gets a better salary for his hard working
e. he does not work hard to get a better salary
30. Dodi : What are you looking for, Jon? Have you lost ….
Joni : Yes, I’m looking for my pen.
a. something
b. anything
c. everything
d. nothing
e. neither
31. “Will he be punished?”
“Yes, …. he apologizes.”
a. if
b. unless
c. because
d. when
e. furthermore
32. The teacher must give the students an opportunity to finish ….. work.
a. his
b. your
c. her
d. their
e. our
33. Mother : Next week end we are going to
Nana : …. I can visit many beautiful places there.
a. It’s terrible
b. I’m so sad
c. It’s a pleasure island
d. I can’t take this anymore
e. You’ve such pain in the neck
34. Wiwin : Nunik, your skirt is dirty. Did something happen to you?
Nunik : I’m embarrassed. On the way here, I didn’t see there was a banana peel. Then I slipped and fell. Moreover, some boys laughed at me.
The underlined utterance expresses …
a. pain
b. relief
c. sadness
d. embarrassment
e. pleasure
(36) …. to English language radio, especially KGRE is a great way to improve your English language skill. But (37) …. English language film and television are also great way to (38) …. your English. Just as Ari Wibowo, who says that watching early morning news programs such as ‘Metro This Morning’ cannot only (39) …. your English but it allows you to find out what is (40) …. in
35. a. listen
- listening
- to listen
- listened
- listens
36. a. to watch
- watch
- watched
- watches
- watching
37. a. practice
- practicing
- practiced
- practices
- is practicing
38. a. to improve
- improve
- improving
- improves
- improved
39. a. happen
- happened
- happening
- happens
- to happen
2 comments:
My name Resti Fadillah. the student of Senior high school. I was trying answer of materials that I think there is not difficulties. and My opinion, it is reading skills nor listening.
dear my beloved lecture,
I have read the materials evaluations (page 97-105) and evaluations (page144-156). In my oppinion, this is the difficult part on English for Specific Purposes. To conduct materials with define criteria - subjective analysis - objective analysis - matching. Besides, We must know much of what our students needs. So, as the instructions of ESP someday, we have to good both in English and how to give materails evaluation for our students. This what you are going for our final task to practice us conduct the materials and evaluation.
thank you
Erwi Trestyuha
031104020 / VIII-A
June 5, 2008 12:38 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass… Bu.. I am M. Baskara D. Y . Class C/VIII
I had read your book about Material Evaluation. But this opportunity I want to give comment about material and I want to add only little about Ten Steps to a Research Paper Evaluate Materials. I think this steps connected with your subject. I got the material from internet
Ten Criteria for Judging
• Author's qualification or credential
• The timeliness of the publication
• Accurate and factual information supported by evidence (
• Coverage of information
• Organization and arrangement of information
• Bibliography, references included
• Reputation of publisher
• Type of publication
• Editorial board of periodical
Ok. Thank you Bu.
Wass…
June 5, 2008 2:45 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass Bu, How are you? I hope the students who participate in the writing competition will win and you come back to Bogor safely. I had read the material about the material evaluations (page 97-105). bu, I want to know about concept model of the evaluation because in your textbook there is no material about it. but I get the concept model from the internet like this.
Conceptual model of evaluation:
1. choose tools for evaluation
2. develop evaluation question
3. collect data
4. analyze data
Is it the conceptual evaluation?
thank you bu.
Edwin Ak (03110463)VIII-C
June 5, 2008 3:03 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
My cute lecturer, I have read the materials evaluation and evaluation,theese are my conclusions and comments.
SUMMARY
-Materials Evaluation-
*There are three possible ways of turning course design into actual teaching materials:
1.Select from existing materials: materials evaluation.
2.Write your own materials:materials development.
3.Modify exixting materials:materials adaption.
*Advantages of materials evaluation:
1.Lead to a large investment of money in a published course or large investment of time in home-produced oradapted materials.
2.Save a lot of expense and frustration.
3.Helping justifying request to sponsors or others members of ESP team for money and time.
*Four major steps:
1.Defining criteria,
2.Subjective analysis,
3.Onjective analysis, and
4.Matching.
-Comment-
Materials Evaluation is needed to be done, because it can make the materials are more available to be given to the students. Materials like a source of knowledge that should be given to the students. A good materials can make us save our money to search another material to cover or add the lack of the previous material, and also to solve our time to write another materials. So, belief or not, that materials evaluation is worth and important for both teacher and learner.
SUMMARY
-Evaluation-
*Two levels of prominent evaluation :
1.Learners Assessment. It is importamt because students need to be assessed (assess students performance at strategic point in the course), for example at the beginning and at the end.
2.Course Evaluation. Evaluate the course itself. This help us to assess whether the course objectives are being met, and whether the course, in other words, is doing what it was designed to do.
*Types of assessment:
1.Placement test.
2.Achievement test.
-The basic principle for constructing the test:
a)Test what you can reasonably assume the learners have learnt.
b)Test should test what you want it to test.
c)Avoid bias in the test.
*This test is a suitable of evaluating the learners' understanding of the material:
a)It involves production as well as understanding.
b)It is an integrated task rather than a set of discrete-poit test focussing on particular sub-skills.
c)The content is of a similar nature to that of the unit.
d)The subject matter is probably already known to the learners.
e)It does not require knowledge of subject-specific vocabulary.
f)It tests written production.
3.Proficiency test.
-Band Description
9.Expert user
8.Very good user
7.Good user
6.Competent user
5.Modest user
4.Limited user
3.Extremely limited user
2.Intermittent user
1.Non-user
--Comment--
Evaluation likes a mirror. It gives us feedback of something we have done. It can be also a burden for us if we do a wrong doing. For example: we have taught our students one of the tenses, so we evaluate it by giving the test. If we teach the students well that make them understand in its material so then they exactly able to answer the question correctly. But if we just sit and speak only the important of the lesson without making them really understand of the material, the students will not be able to answer correctly because they are not understanding for the material.
Those are from me. I hope you will explain about them more clearly on next week.Thank you my lovely lecture.....
Wilda Soraya
(031104058)
VIII/C
June 5, 2008 3:28 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear Bu Atti
I am Siti Cahyani from class VIII-C. My summary about the materials are:
Material Evaluation
Actual teaching material:
a.select from existing materials: materials evaluation
b.write your own materials: materials development
c.modify existing materials: materials adaptation.
Four major evaluation process: Defining criteria, Subjective analysis, Objective analysis, and Matching.
Material evaluation process is a means of questioning and developing your own ideas as to what is required.
Evaluation
Two levels of evaluation:
A learner assessment is to assessment of student performance. Three basic types of assessment:
Placement test. These are used to ‘place’ learners in the ESP course most suited to their needs. The placement test normally comes at the beginning of the course.
Achievement test. These test how well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus and can be administered any time through the course.
Proficiency test. These assess whether or not the student can cope with the demands of a particular situation.
B Course Evaluation helps to show how well the course is actually fulfilling the need.
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
- your ability to collect the information
- your ability to use the information once it has been collected
2. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
- test results
- questionnaires
- discussion
- interviews
- informal means
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
- the ESP teaching institution
- the ESP teacher
- the learners
- the course sponsor
4. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
- in the first week of the course
- at regular interval throughout the course
- at the end of the course
- (if possible) after the course.
Comment:
After read and summarized the material, I am realized that to make an evaluation were not easy. It takes a lot of time, attention and energy. But it had been done because it is important to know our work. Evaluation is the representation from our works and students achievement.
June 5, 2008 3:54 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass,how are you bu? I hope you always fine in everywhere.. I will give my summary and comments about Materials evaluation and Evaluation. I will start from 'Materials evaluation'.
There are 3 possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. Select from existing materials:materials evaluation.
b. Write your own materials:materials development.
c. Modify existing materials:material adaptation.
1. Why evaluate materials? Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
2. How do you evaluate materials? Evaluation is basically a matching process:matching needs to available solutions. It means that as the teacher we should match the students' need and give best solution from it.
There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
The evaluation process should be systematic,and the teacher should an appropriate materials evaluation for the learner.
"Evaluation"
A demand was generated as a result for courses which would equip particular learners with the necessary skills.
Two levels of evaluation:
A. Learner assessment. Is a need to assess student performance. It means that teacher can give it at the beginning & at the end. In ESP there are 3 basic types of assessment: Placement tests, Achievement tests, Proficiency tests.
B. Course evaluation. This helps to show how well the course is fulfilling the need. There are 4 main aspects of ESP course evaluation (Alderson & Waters, 1983):
a. What should be evaluated?
b. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
*COMMENT*
I realize that assesment is really important to know how far the students' ability. In addition, to be a good teacher we should make appropriate material evaluation to assess what we want to be assess. Besides,before give the assessment as a teacher we should give our students lots of exercise in order to make them used to be evaluated.
I think that all my summarizing and comment,I hope it be one of good comment. I also hope that you can explain those materials for us more clearly next week. Thanks!
Dian Fitriani (031104075) VIII-C.
June 5, 2008 9:28 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear bu Atti,
my name's Sinta Puspita Sari (031104008) VIII-A.
This chapter discuss about the material evaluation which is select from existing materials as the way of exploting a course design. Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitnes of something for a particular purpose concerned with relative merit. Basically, it's a matching process (matching needs to available solutions) and it's best to look at the needs and solutions separetly. In evaluation process, there are four major steps, namely: definning criteria, subjective anlysis, objective anlysis and matching. As (Huitchson :1987) said: " you sould use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing our own ideas as to what is required".
Relating to the mateial evaluation, the type of learner and course also have purposes and procedures in providing feedback on the ESP course. A learner assesment is needed before we will really know what the requirements of a good ESP test are. In course evaluation there are 4 main aspects to be considered: what should be evaluate and involved the evaluation, how to evaluate and when the evaluation take place.
I think that's the important point that I've got from reading this chapter.
June 6, 2008 9:21 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear bu Atti....
This chapter tells about materials evaluation. Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something of a particular purpose. The results of an evaluation will probably lead to a large investment of money in a publised course or a large investment of time. In home - produced or adapted material. Besides evaluation is basically a matching process: matching need to available solutions. If this matching is to be done as objectivelly as possible, it's based on the the needs and solutions sparately. We can devide the evaluation process into four major steps: defining criteria,subjective analysis, objective analysis and matching. As Huitchinson:1987 said,"You sould use the materials evaluations process as a means of questioning and developing your own ideas as to what to required". That is why we have looked at materials evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. Even if you eventualy decide your own materials, the evaluation of existing materials can provide a good source of ideas and technique.
That's all my comment.Thanks
Kartini (031104023)
VIII-A
ESP
June 6, 2008 9:35 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass,mam haw are you today?after i read the book which title material evaluation, the content include materials evaluation, material development, and material adaptation. from the material writer can learn a lot in terms of ideas and techniques. an esp text book has to suit the needs of a number of parties-teachers, students, sponsor.in this material you should use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing your own ideas as to what is required. from the title evaluation, we can see there are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into peominence:
1. learner assessment.
2. course evaluation.
far more research needed before we'll really know what the requirements of a good ESP tese are. we shall return to this point below:
1. Placement test.
2. Achievement test.
3. Proficiency test.
in course evaluation, there are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP course be evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
4. When (ans how often )should evaluation take place.my comment is both of them very important to be learn and we can study because evaluation is very needed in any materials.and also helps to asses how well the needs that have created the demand for a course are being served.that's all my comment to you, thank you for your attention.wasalam.by Rika Andriyani(031104027)/VIII-A.
June 6, 2008 9:40 AM
Anonymous IRNA ARYANI VIII/D said...
hi...miss ati. I'm Irna Aryani from VIII/D.
I'll tell my comment.I have read the materials evaluations on page 97-105 and evaluations on page144-156.After reading it, I thought there are more important things that I've got from this chapter. Although I didn't understand some of its contents, I tried to understand it. kind of evaluations which are told in this chapter can be described detail when I related the material with my experience; for example, I ever did a placement test when I would took a course at LPIA Bogor. so I know what its function. In my opinion, Evaluation is important not only to measure the students' ability but also the teachers' success on conveying the materials to the students. To evaluate is to assess and Evaluation is the process of examining a subject. In other word, It representated the students' achievment and the teacher' success.The materials evaluation should be appropriated for the teacher and also the students.Finally, I have a question about the material which I have read. "Do kinds of the evaluations (placement, achievment and proficiency tests) can be applied in GE?"
Those are my comment, I hope you want to explain them detail and clearly on next week...see you, Thanks.
June 6, 2008 10:28 AM
Blogger nit2_aza said...
Assalamualaikum wr.wb
Good morning Mrs. Atti..
How are you?
Here are some summary and comments based from the book Hutchinson and Waters’ book page 96-105 on Materials Evaluation and page 144-156 on Evaluation that I’ve read…
SUMMARY
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. It is basically a matching process, matching needs to available solutions and can be a good source of ideas to exploiting your needs in materials needs. It can be a made to be better for being based on a systematic check of all the important variables, and also help in justifying requests to sponsors.
Evaluation process can be dividing into 4 major steps:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
There are 3 basic assessments in ESP:
1. Placement test
These “place” learners in the ESP course most suited to their needs.
2. Achievement tests
These test how well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus.
3. Proficiency tests
These assess whether or not the students can cope with the demands of a particular situation.
There are 4 main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
4. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
COMMENTS
After I have read the book about Material Evaluations and Evaluations, I can conclude that both of them are very important. Material evaluations can make the material be better for the students. These can provide an important knowledge that should be learn by the students without make the materials were complicated. Evaluations are also important. It takes to know how far the students understand our material based from the tests or another way which can make us trust in give them a knowledge not only from understanding the explanations but also can improve their understanding from their answer or responds tests correctly.
I think that’s all from me. Actually I still feel uncertain with all of my comprehension about these materials. I hope you can give the explanations certainly next week to make it better. Thank you….
Anita Saputri/ VI-C
031105079
June 6, 2008 10:44 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Rahayu Puji Lestari
031104098
VIII- D
Ass. Wr.Wb
I have read the book from page 96-156.
Summary of chapter 9 about material evaluation
Three possible ways of turning course design into actual teaching materials:
1.Select from existing materials: materials evaluation.
2.Write your own materials: materials development
3.Modify existing materials: material adaptation
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.
Four major steps of evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
*Comment*
In my opinion, evaluation is way how to measure something. In this case, evaluation is used for material. Evaluation is given to students when the teacher have finished give material. Evaluation is important because the teacher can measure how far the students can understand about the material and the teacher also can asses his/ herself teaching is successfully or not to students.Thank you
June 6, 2008 10:50 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear my cute lecturer,
I am Esin Sintawati (VIII.A)
I have read Hutchinson and Waters’ book page 96-105 on Materials Evaluation and page 144-156 on Evaluation. So, in this opportunity, I will give my summary and also comments.
SUMMARY: Materials Evaluation
• There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. select from existing materials: materials evaluation
b. write your own material: material development
c. modify existing materials: materials adaptation
• the benefits of materials evaluation:
- The result of an evaluation will probably lead to a large investment of money in a published course. Or a large investment of time in home-produced or adapted materials
- A careful evaluation can save a lot of expense and frustration.
- It can also help in justifying request to sponsors or other member of an ESP team for money to buy materials or time to write them.
• The disadvantage of materials evaluation: one text book might match your criteria in terms of content and language areas, but another might have the more appropriate methodology. So we will need to decide which is the more important to the various people concerned: teacher, students, and sponsors.
• There are four major steps of evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. objective analysis
4. matching
• evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solution.
COMMENT
In my opinion, making material evaluation is not essay. We have to do several processes to get complete source. It is because materials evaluation based on learner needs, in order to get much information we have to take a lot of information from the learners for example by giving them some questionnaire, interview, etc. After that, we not only take the information to get the documentation of their needed but also we have to analyze it to get concrete information and matching solution for the learners.
SUMMARY: Evaluation
• There are two levels of evaluation
1. learner assessment
As any language course there is a need to assess student performance at strategic pint in discourse. This assessment takes on greater importance of ESP because ESP concerned with the ability to perform particular communicative task.
Three basic types of assessment:
1. Placements test: these test used to ‘place’ learner in the ESP course most suited to their needs.
2. achievement test: these test hoe well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus
The basic principle for constructing test:
a. Test what you can reasonably assume the learners have learnt.
b. Your test should test what you actually want it to test.
c. Avoid bias in the test.
3. proficiency test: these assess whether or not the students can cope the demand of a particular situation
2. Course evaluation: course evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course itself.
There are four main aspect of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
Two importance constraints:
a. your ability to collect information
b. your ability to use the information once it has been collected
2. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
ESP course are evaluated using the following techniques:
- test result
- questionnaire
- discussion
- interview
- informal means
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
It concerned to ESP teaching institution, ESP teacher, learners, and the course sponsors.
4. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
The most important time:
1. In the first week of the course.
2. At regular intervals throughout the course.
3. At the end of the course.
4. If it possible after the course.
COMMENT
In my opinion, assessment or evaluation is really needed in learning process. It helps teacher to measure their successfully teaching. So the teacher will know whether their teaching technique is good to be used or maybe need some changes for their next teaching. Besides, assessment will help students to measure how far their ability and comprehension of their learning. However the teacher also should give the assessment based on the material that has been given not a different material in order the teacher knows whether the students have followed the lesson well.
That's all my summaries and comments. I hope you will give more clearly explanation next meeting. Thanks for your reading. See you...
June 6, 2008 10:51 AM
Anonymous Dewi Indriarini said...
Ass..wr.wb
I have read the Materials evaluation (page 96-105). Based on materials evaluation that I had read from the book, I would like to make conclusion.
Materials Evaluation is a systematic process; evaluation is a matter of judging and basically as a matching process. Matching needs to available solution separately.In term of the evaluation procedures, there are three major steeps are propose. First, select unit from one volume of the textbooks, secondly, decide and define criteria for the evaluation; thirdly, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the textbooks in matching their claims with learner's need.
Evaluation is straightforward, analytical process. In that case, analysis of subjective needs (material requirement)and analysis of subjective solution (materials) are both required to find out how far the material matches the needs. Thus, four major steps that can be taken in the evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
What bases we will judge the materials ?
2. Subjective analysis
What is the realization of the criteria that we want to in our course, (e.g. who are the learner, what language point should be covered)?
3. Objective analysis
What does the material being evaluated (e.g. who is the material intended for)?
4. Matching
How far the material matches our need?
Materials evaluation plays such an important rule in language learning that potential for influencing the way teachers operate is considerable. Material evaluation can provide teachers a good source of techniques, tell us what to do as well as what to avoid and consequently help us make optimum use of the existing materials, and that also worth nothing that evaluation process is particularly helpful for teacher to gain good and useful insight into the nature of the material. Only with this way we can respond to the learners' needs at the most and maximize the teaching/learning objective.
Dewi Indriarini
VII/A (031104106)
June 6, 2008 10:55 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Name: Widya Lestari
Npm : 031104078
Class: VIII/C
THE SUMMARY:
Dear bu Atti,
After I read the title of material evaluation and Evaluation, I know that in this topic tells about there are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. select from existing materials: material evaluation.
b. Write your own materials: material development.
c. Modify existing materials: materials adaption.
1. Why evaluate materials? Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
2. How do you evaluate materials? Evaluation is basically a matching process:matching needs to available solutions. It means that as the teacher we should match the students' need and give best solution from it.
There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
Then there are two level of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
A. Learner assessment
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement test
the aim of the placement test is to determine the learner' state of knowledge before the ESP course begins.
2. Achievement tests
In constructing a good ESP achievement test you should follow the same basic principles as you would fort constructing any test. For example:
a. Test what you can reasonable assume the learners have learn.
b. Your test should test what you actually want it to test.
c. Avoid bias in the test.
3. proficiency tests.
Proficiency test is design to asses whether candidates will e ale to perform the language tasks required of them.
B. Course Evaluation
Evaluation helps to show how to show how well the course is actually fulfilling the need.
In course evaluation, there are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP course be evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
4. When (ans how often )should evaluation take place.
My comment is material evaluation and evaluation is very important to us to learn. it is because it can helps helps us to asses how well the needs that have created the demand for a course are being served. But, I still confuse to develop material evaluation. So I hope you can explain again in the next meeting.Thanks.
June 6, 2008 11:09 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anna siti chosana lestari
031104046/VIII-b
Dear mam,I'll tell my summary.After I read the materials evaluations on page 97-105 and evaluations on page144-156.I thought there are more important things that I've got from this chapter. In chapter 9 tell me about the definition of evaluation. Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. Evaluation of existing materials can provide a good source of ideas and techniques.The evaluation process should be systematic and is best seen as matching exercise, matching with analyzed needs and with available solutions.we can divide the evaluation process into four major steps:
1. defining criteria
2. subjective analysis
3. objective analysis
4. matching
It will be useful,however, to set out the criteria and the own preferred realizations of the criteria in a form which will make it easy to compare different sets of materials.
In chapter 12, I read about evaluation. there are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
1. learner assessment
in ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1) placement tests.
2) achievement tests.
3) proficiency tests.
2. course evaluation
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered (Alderson and Waters, 1983):
1) what should be evaluated?
2) how can ESP courses be evaluated?
3) who should be involved in the evaluation?
4) when (and how often) should evaluation take place?
my comment about both of the chapters is those of them is very important. because i don't like read book so i still confuse about the material. I thinks thats all about my comment and my summary
June 6, 2008 11:19 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear bu Atti...
Ass, My name is Leni mulyana Sari(031104067), Class VII/C.
After I read the book which title materials evaluation. I know that:Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.beside that the content include the materials evaluation process.which consist of four major steps like such as defining criteria,subjective analysis, objective analysis and matching.i read again about Evaluation where we can see there are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into peominence such as
1.learner assessment:Is a need to assess student performance. It means that teacher can give it at the beginning & at the end. In ESP there are 3 basic types of assessment: Placement tests, Achievement tests, Proficiency tests.
2. course evaluation:This helps to show how well the course is fulfilling the need. There are 4 main aspects of ESP course evaluation.
Types of assessment:
1.Placement test.
2.Achievement test.
My Comment:
I think this material is very important to learn for us and we can to know how far the students' ability.and for a teacher should prepare before give assesment.before and after give the assessment,a teacher should give exercise for increase students ability and to know students understand or not what have their learnt.I think that all my summarizing and comment.I hope
that you can explain those materials for us more clearly next week.Thanks!
June 6, 2008 11:20 AM
Blogger keep having a spirit said...
Good afternoon Mam, I just want to give a comment about evaluation. In my opinion evaluation is the most important part in teaching learning process. It used to measure the students’ comprehension to the materials given by the teacher during the teaching-learning process so the teacher knows what the materials they haven’t understood yet so she can re-explain it to them. It will be easier for the teacher to know and improve the students’ ability in increasing the students’ comprehension to the materials because a teacher often find some of them who are introvert and won’t to ask about the materials they haven't understood yet, so I think this is a good resolution to help the teacher to solve this problem for the smooth running of the teaching-learning process and also to produce the best students. Beside that, it also shows whether the teacher is success or fail in giving the materials to them.
I think that’s all from me. Thanks.
FITRIYAH WULAN SARI VI-C
031105082
June 6, 2008 11:24 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Assalamualaikum...
Dear Mrs. Atti...
How are you today?
I have read the materials evaluations on page 97-105 and evaluations on page144-156.
After I have read the book about Materials Evaluation and Evaluation, I can conclude that both of them are very important. According to [Henry James:The Art of Fiction]he said that "we must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donne:our criticism is applied only to to what he makes of it" Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. How do you evaluate materials? evaluations is basiclly a matching process: matching needs to available solutions. We can divide the evaluation processinto four major steps there are:
1. Defining criteria.
2. Subjective analysis.
3. Objective analysis.
4. Matching.
Two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
1. Learner assessment
Learner assessment should logically give to assessment of student performance. There is a general lack of discussion or guidance on ESP testing. ESP test are: the placement test, achievement test, and proficiency test.
2. Course evaluation
help to estabilish whether it is meeting its aims. There are four main aspects of ESP:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
4. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
Comment:
I think material evaluation is very important because we as a teacher must know the student understanding about the material that he or ahe has given, to assess the student comprehensin the teacher must give an evaluation or reply in the next meeting and also teacher can give a task or exercise to increase his or her skill.
That all for my summary and this is my opinion and comment, I hope you will be able to explain for us clearly next week.
Thank you for your attention
Assalamualaikum wr. wb.
Denny Kuswara/031104013 VIII-A/
June 6, 2008 11:34 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear Mrs. Atti, I wish u have a nice trip to Yogyakarta with all of the students who follow the writing competition in Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. I had read the book of Hutchinson and Waters’ book page 96-105 for the material evaluation and the page of 144-156 for the Evaluation.
In the chapter of material evaluation, i conclude that material evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. even i have my own material, i have to do the material evaluation so it can provide a good source of ideas about what the technique of teaching/material that we have to avoid as well as what to do and also for the process of the evaluation, we should do it with a good processing or it can be said with a good proposition,so when we give the material to the student we will not give the material which is not have a good quality.
for the next chapter of the evaluation, i conclude that we should consider the role that tests play within a learning-centered approach to ESP.for this chapter, test should be recognized for the important role they play in the teaching-learning process. the evaluation also can be assessment and feedback. both of them have relation, because assessment is a matter for measuring what the material that learners have know. and the assessment also should provide the positive feedback to inform the teachers and the learners about the material which is not clear enough for the learners so it can provide input to the content and methods of the next teaching.
i think that is enough for me to conclude the material which i had read. ups,,,once again, i forget to tell you that i had past my Seminar Proposal at 28th May 2008. I want to say thank you for giving me support to do the seminar proposal, i hope you don't mind to be my supervisor. Thank you.
Dewi Asri R.
031104014/VIII-A
Azaskia@Yahoo.com
June 6, 2008 11:36 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Handayani
031104037
VIIIB
Dear Mam...
After I read the material evaluation on page 97-105
and Evaluation on page 144-156. I found a lot of important material that we have to know. In chapter 9, about materials evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. Evaluation is basically a matching process can divide the evaluation process into four major steps:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
you should use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing your ideas as to what is required.
In chapter 12, about Evaluation. There are two levels of evaluation:
A. Learner evaluation
B. Course Evaluation
These two forms of evaluation are not always distinct. Evaluation of the learners reflects not just the learners' performance but to some extent the effectiveness or otherwise of the course too.
In my comment,there are a lot of information that we have to know from two section above. a lot of them very important. But many things that I didn't understand without your explained. Although I red it. I hope you will explain it latter. that's my comment. Thank you...
June 6, 2008 11:43 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Name: Nurvita Dewi.A(031104033)
class: VIII B
I will give summary and comments about Materials evaluation and Evaluation. in Materials evaluation
There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. Select from existing materials:materials evaluation.
b. Write your own materials:materials development.
c. Modify existing materials:material adaptation.
1. Why evaluate materials? Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
2. How do you evaluate materials? Evaluation is basically a matching process:matching needs to available solutions. It means that as the teacher we should match the students' need and give best solution from it.
There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
The evaluation process should be systematic,and the teacher should an appropriate materials evaluation for the learner.
"Evaluation"
A demand was generated as a result for courses which would equip particular learners with the necessary skills.
Two levels of evaluation:
A. Learner assessment. Is a need to assess student performance. It means that teacher can give it at the beginning & at the end. In ESP there are 3 basic types of assessment: Placement tests, Achievement tests, Proficiency tests.
B. Course evaluation. This helps to show how well the course is fulfilling the need. There are 4 main aspects of ESP course evaluation (Alderson & Waters, 1983):
a. What should be evaluated?
b. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
*COMMENT*
an assessment is important to know how far the students' ability.Before give the assessment a teacher should give our students lots of exercise to increase students ability and to know students understand or not what have their learn and make them used to be evaluated.
I think that all my summary and comment. Thanks!
June 6, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Comment of Material Evaluation
mulya sari said,,,
After we read this matter, we find some useful points that help us to create ESP textbook. At first, we thought we just develop our own material not from the existing material in the students ESP handbook. The points of this chapter explains us the sequence process how to create the suitable ESP textbook which is suitable with ESP learners’ needs.
In matching the suitable ESP material in their textbook, the ESP textbook writers should match the need or the objective analysis and the subjective analysis or own developed material. The objective analysis can be gained by need analysis through giving questionnaires, interviewing, and observing so that the writer know the real need which can help to write the textbook. The subjective analysis means developing the material based on the writers’ wants.
We saw their ESP textbook. The textbook contains the substantial law material using English. The book uses the communicative approach by using dialogue form. The lack of this book is the performance of this book in not attractive so it does not increase the interest of students to read the book.
mulya sari, 031104124
8.e
katumbiri_girl@yahoo.com
June 6, 2008 11:54 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Comment of Material Evaluation
mulya sari said,,,
After we read this matter, we find some useful points that help us to create ESP textbook. At first, we thought we just develop our own material not from the existing material in the students ESP handbook. The points of this chapter explains us the sequence process how to create the suitable ESP textbook which is suitable with ESP learners’ needs.
In matching the suitable ESP material in their textbook, the ESP textbook writers should match the need or the objective analysis and the subjective analysis or own developed material. The objective analysis can be gained by need analysis through giving questionnaires, interviewing, and observing so that the writer know the real need which can help to write the textbook. The subjective analysis means developing the material based on the writers’ wants.
We saw their ESP textbook. The textbook contains the substantial law material using English. The book uses the communicative approach by using dialogue form. The lack of this book is the performance of this book in not attractive so it does not increase the interest of students to read the book.
mulya sari, 031104124
8.e
katumbiri_girl@yahoo.com
June 6, 2008 11:54 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
assalamualaikum..........
Dear Mrs. Atti, I have read the material about materials evaluation.
The summary of this material are :
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In any kind of evaluation, the decision finally made is likely to be the better for being based on o systematic check of all the important variables. Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solution.
we can divide the evaluation process into for major step:
a. Defining criteria
b. subjective analysis
c. Objective analysis
d. Matching
There are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
a. Learner assessment
b. Course evaluation
I think this material is very important to study. In this material explain that the teacher must understanding about the material that has given by teacher.I have any problem to understanding of this material, i hope you can explain again for this material.
Thank you for your attention.
Wassalam.........
Endri Ferdian/031104085-VIII.B
June 6, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
(Dwitha.P. 031104070. VIII-B) Assalamualaikum. W.R.B.
Good Morning Mom..,How are you..?
today..i'll tell you my summary about Materials evaluation and Evaluation.
Evalluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In any kind of evaluation, the decision finally made is likely to be the better for being based on a systematic check of all the important variables. It's basically a matching process: matching needs to avalaible solution.
Evaluation process can devided into four major steps:
1. Defining criteria.
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objectives analysis
4. Matching
Any language teaching course has certain evaluation requairement, but in ESP these requairements are brought sarply into focus by the fact that the ESP cours normally has specipied objectives. In spite of the importance, which ESP should logically give to assesment of student performance, there is a general lack of discussion or guidence on ESP testing.
Comment:
i think both of them are very important, because with evaluation the teachers will know more what them students need in the process of study, and they also know how far the students understand the lesson.
June 6, 2008 12:40 PM
Blogger INdri_ChE said...
Assalamualaikum wr. Wb
Dear mrs.Atti….
My name is Indriyani D.N (031105075) class 6-C. Here is my summary and comment about material evaluation and evaluation.
SUMMARY:
- There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. Select from existing materials: materials evaluation.
b. Write your own materials:materials development.
c. Modify exixting materials:materials adaption.
- Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
- Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.
- We can devided the evaluation process into four major steps:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
- The evaluation process should be systematic and is best seen as a matching exercise: matching your analyzed needs with available solution.
- There are 3 basic assessments in ESP:
1. Placement test
These “place” learners in the ESP course most suited to their needs.
2. Achievement tests
These test how well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus.
3. Proficiency tests
These assess whether or not the students can cope with the demands of a particular situation.
COMMENT:
In my opinion, evaluation is important to do because it has the function to measure student comprehension in learning. So teacher can know about how good the ability of each student in teaching learning process.
That's all ma'am,,, thank you.
Wassalamualaikum wr.wb.
June 6, 2008 12:47 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sriyati_031104005/VIIIA
Dear My strict and smart lecturer,
Hello Mam, after we had not seen for three weeks I feel miss you. Miss you , when you talking in front of class, when you made eye contact to us. Wow actually that was make you become the highest lecturer for me. Everybody know that you are very strict...you are great!!!!!!and I Need you Mam...
Well, thats only my feeling.Ok Mam in this opportunity I will give my comment of our materials. And please read my resume bellow:
Summary:
Materials Evaluation
For the teacher it is very important to know about course design material so they know how to choose proper materials in teaching.
There are three ways of turning course design into actual teaching materials:
1.select from exiting materials: materials evaluation.
2.Write your own materials: materials development.
3.Modify exiting materials: materials adaptation.
To evaluate materials the teacher need to do the steps of the evaluation process into major steps:
1. Defining criteria.
2. Subjective analysis.
3.Objective analysis.
4. Matching.
The following steps are support the teacher to have materials evaluation. And able to make good evaluation.After I read this chapter I know that materials evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. I know that by doing this steps as a good teacher able to provide a good source of idea and techniques.
My comment for this chapter_Materials evaluation is teacher can decide their own material but they also can modify the exiting materials. There are important because the teacher can do the evaluation systematically.
Summary_Evaluation
There are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
a. Learner assessment.
As with any language course there is a need to assess students performance at strategic points in the course.
b. Course evaluation.
A second important form of evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course its self.
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement tests.
These are used to 'place' learners in ESP course most suited to their needs. The placement test normally comes at the beginning of the course.
2. Achievement test.
These test how well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus and can be administered anytime trouhg the course.
3. Profisiency course.
These assess whether or not the student can coped with the demands of a particular situation.
My comment:
In this section I understand that the successful learner is the learner who know and want to be honest that they are able catch or to reach their need.
Course evaluation.
The ESP course, like any course, should regularly demonstrate that its continued existence in this present form is justified. There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
a. What should be evaluated?
b. How can Esp course be evaluated?
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When(and how often) should evaluation take place?
Most ESP courses are evaluated using one or more or the following techniques:
-test results,
-questionnaires,
-discussions,
-interviews,
-informal means.
The evaluation can be done with most important times occur:
1. In the first week of the course. the tone established here probably have a greater overall effect on the success of the course enduring than later ones.
2. at regulars intervals throughout the course, for example, every half term.
3. at the end of the course.
4. if possible, after the course.
This chapter is talking about the evaluation of the student and evaluation of the course. We have to outlined the ways in which both kinds of evaluation can be carried out and have described how each fits into a learning centered approach.
My comment:
Wow, this chapter is quite difficult for me to understand. But I try to conclude with my own words. In evaluation section, more emphasis on student ability to gets the goal of the ESP course and how to measure the students ability. Beside that the teacher also give kinds of evaluation in proper times.
Ok Mam thats above are my resumes and my comments of this chapter. I hope it can be a good effort for me to understand your materials. Thank you for reading my comment. Last word.....Mrs. Atti is my great lecturer EVA:)
June 6, 2008 12:59 PM
Blogger nona safari oktaviani said...
Nona S Oktaviani
031102153
Ass...
Dear Mrs. Atti
Good afternoon Mom, how are you today?
After I read the book about the Material Evaluation and Evaluation it is very important for our learning. in the chapter of evaluation we shall look at the three options, such as:
a. select from existing materials: Materials evaluation
b. Write your own materials: Materials development
c. Modify existing materials: Materials adaptation.
And then we can see the steps of evaluation process, there are:
1. Defining Criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
The materials evaluation process have the more appropriate methodology. in the subjective analysis and the objective analysis we can do analysis about audience.
Most of the work of the first two stages will have been done in the course design stage. it will be useful to set out our criteria and preferred realizations of the criteria in a form which will make is easy to compare different sets of materials.
in the materials about Evaluation have twp levels of evaluation into prominence, there are:
A. Learner assessment, as with any language course there is a need to assess student performance at strategic points in the course.
B. Course evaluation, a second important form evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course itself.
in ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement tests, these are to place learners
2. Achievement test, These test how the learner is keeping up with the syllabus
3. Proficiency test, these assess whether or not the student can cope the demands of a particular situation.
Comment:
In this chapter, i think about both is very important for teaching learning and as a teacher we must understand about material is given for student in teaching in the class because the students need about the material. I'm confused about these material and I hope for next week, you would be teaching with clearly for us in the class.
thank you Mom...
Ws Wb.
June 6, 2008 1:02 PM
Blogger nona safari oktaviani said...
Yunita Diwanti
031104049/VIIIB
Assalamualaikum wr.wb
Dear Mrs. Atti...How are you today?
I will give the summary and comment about Materials Evaluation and Evaluation. This my summary of Materials Evaluation:
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.We can divide the evaluation process into for major step:
a. Defining criteria
b. Subjective analysis
c. Objective analysis
d. Matching
Most of the work of the first two stages will have been done in the course design stage.
This is my summary about Evaluation.
Two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
A. Learner assessment
As with any language course there is a need to assess student performance at strategic points in the course, for example, at the beginning and at the end.
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement tests.
The aim of the placement test is to determine the learners' state of knowledge before the ESP course begins.
2. Achievement test.
This kind of the test is the least problematic, since it is usually internal to the course.
3. Proficiency tests.
B. Course evaluation
A second important form of evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course itself.The information gathered forms the starting point for any necessary revisions of the course, and may also help the guide the design of other similar course in your teaching institution or elsewhere.There are four main aspect of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
a. What should be evaluated?
b. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
comment....
This is my comment. After I read about Material evaluation and Evaluation in the book ESP. I think the material is not easy.I little understand about Materials evaluation and Evaluation, because I understand,if the lecture teaching the materials about it. The materials is very important to study. So I will read again. I hope u can explain about it in the class.
I think that's all.
Thank you for attention.
Wassalamualaikum wr.wb
June 6, 2008 1:12 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear my best lecturer...
I am Sutrisno class VIII-A
I have read Hutchinson and Waters' book page 96-105 on Material Evaluation and page 144-156 on Evaluation. So i want to write summary of the material and a comment
SUMMARY- Material Evaluation
1. why we evaluate materials?
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for particular purpose. There is no absolute good or bad, only degrees of fitness for the required purpose. The results of an evaluation will probably lead to a large investment of money in a published course or a large investment of time in home-produced or adapted materials.
2. How do you evaluate materials?
Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching need to available solution.
The evaluation process can be divided into four major steps:
1. Defining Criteria
-On what bases will you judge the materials?
-Which the criteria will be more important?
2. Subjective Analysis
-What realisations of the criteria do you want in your course?
3. Objective Analysis
-How does the material being evaluated realise the criteria?
4. Matching
-How far does the material match your needs?
*The evaluation process should be systematic and is the best seen as a matching exercise: matching your analyzed needs with available solution.
COMMENT
I think if we want to evaluate the materials we have to analyze the materials then we use the steps of evaluation process.
SUMMARY-Evaluation
A. Learner assessment
Any language course there is a need to assess student performance at strategic points in the course, for example, at the beginning and at the end.This assessment takes on the greater importance in ESP, because ESP is concerned with the ability to perform particular communicative tasks.
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment :
1. Placement tests
These are used to 'place' learners in the ESP course most suited to their needs. The placement test normally comes at the beginning of the coiurse.
2. Achievement tests
These test how well the learner is keeping up with the syllabus and can be administered any time through the course.
3. Proficiency tests
These assess whether or not the students can cope with the demand s of a particularly situation.
B. Course Evaluation
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to considered (Alderson and Waters, 1983):
a. What should be evaluated?
Everything of significance. There are two important constraints:
i) Your ability to collect the imformation.
ii) Your ability to use the information once it has been collected.
b. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
In practice, most ESP courses are evaluated using one or more of the following techniques:
-test results
-questionnaries
-discussions
-interviews
-informal means
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
i) in the first week of the course
ii)at regular intervals throughout the course
iii)at the end of the course
iv) (if possible)after the course.
COMMENT
- i want to ask to you Mom. What we do when we use an assessment?
Thank you very much
See you...
June 6, 2008 1:17 PM
Anonymous anti luthu said...
Dear Mrs. Atti..
My name is Purwanti from class E.
This is my summary page 96-105 and 144-156 and this is my comment about Material Evaluation and Evaluation.
Summary :
There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials :
a. select from existing materials : materials evaluation
b. write your own materials : materials development.
c. modify existing materials : material adaption.
evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.Evaluation is, than, concerned with relative merit. There is no absolute good or bad-only degrees of fitness for the required purpose. We can divide the evaluation process into four major steps :
1. Defining criteria.
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
EVALUATION
Two level of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence :
A. Learner assessment. As with any language course there is a need to assess student performance at strategic points in the course, for example, at the beginning and at the end.But this assessment takes on a greater important in ESP, because ESP is concerned with the ability to perform particular communicative tasks.
B. Course evaluation. A second important form of evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course itself.
My comment is I will honest to you my lecturer I really don't understand about that. I hope you will explain it in your class.
Thank you...
June 6, 2008 1:55 PM
Anonymous lina_fitria said...
Dear Mrs. Atti..
My name is Lina Fitria Sari(031103137) from class E. This is my summary on page 96-105 and page 144-156. and this my comment too.
SUMMARY :
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In any kind of evaluation, the decision finally made is likely to be the better for being based on a systematic check of all the important variables. We can divide the evaluation process into four major steps :
1. Defining criteria.
2. Subjective analysis.
3. Objective analysis.
4. Matching analysis.
EVALUATION
A learners assessment. The facility to assess proficiency is, therefore, central to the whole concept of ESP. The result of this kind of evaluation, for example, enable sponsor, teachers and learners to decide whether and how much language tuition is required.
B. Course evaluation. This kind of evaluation helps to assess whether the course objectives are being met-whether the course, in other words, is doing what it is was designed to do.
My comment about this subject, I a little bit understand but I don't know the meaning about that. I hope you can explain that in your class on Thursday.
Thank you very much...
June 6, 2008 2:13 PM
Blogger sub_re_@_tool said...
Dear Ms. Atti,
I am Subriatul Wirda (031104125/VIII E). These are my summary and comment for chapter 9:Materials evaluation and chapter 12: Evaluation.
• Summary
Evaluation is one of steps of making an ESP textbook. It is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In other words, evaluation is a process of determining the appropriate materials for the needs—not only learners’ needs but also teacher’s and sponsors’ needs.
Next, there are four steps in the evaluation process, those are: defining criteria, subjective analysis, objective analysis, and matching. The two first steps are used to set out the criteria and the realisations of the criteria. First, we should determine the criteria which is more important. Second, we should analyze what realisations of the criteria. Next, we also should analyze whether the material realise the criteria or not. Finally, we match the material and the needs.
There are two levels of evaluation, those are Learner assessment and Course evaluation. Learner assessment is assessing students performance at strategic points in the course. This is very important because ESP is concerned with the ability to perform particular communicative tasks. The result of this kind of evaluation enable sponsors, teachers and learners to decide whether and how much language tuition is required. Next, Course evaluation is the evaluation of ESP course itself. It assesses whether the course had been objective.
• Comment
In teaching-learning process, there must be an evaluation. I had thought that evaluation is only giving test to the learners. However, after I read chapter 9 and 12, I just know that the process of designing the test has been included to an evaluation. Also, in assessment we do not only assess the students’ success but also assess the success of the teaching process. That is what I got after I read the chapters, but please correct if I was wrong. Next, I could imagine how it would be so difficult to do materials evaluation and evaluation for our project. However, it should be done and I would be glad to do it because I believe that it would be very useful for the future.
I think that’s all my summary and comment. Thank you very much...
June 6, 2008 2:54 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yeni Nurmayanti 031104010/VIII-A
After I read the chapter of materials Evaluation on page 96-105 and Evaluation on page 144-156 in Hutchinson and Waters' book. I concluded that evaluation is one way to exploit a course design and it also can provide a good source of ideas and technique. Beside it, it can save a lot of duplication of exiting materials can provide all or part of our materials needs. The evaluation process must be systematic and is best seen as a matching exercise: matching needs our analyzed needs with available solutions.
Actually the four major steps of evaluation process are related each other. By knowing the define criteria, which we have already done in the course design,then,we go forward in to subjective analysis and Objective analysis. After knowing both of them, we can match students' needs to available solutions.
Evaluation can fulfill two functions assessment and feedback. Assessment is a matter of measuring what the learners already know. However,any assessment should also provide positive feedback to inform teachers and learners about what is still not known, thus providing important input to the content and methods of future work.
For course evaluation, we need to involve all those who share the learning process in making the ESP course as satisfying to the parties as possible.
I think that's all my comprehension about this chapter, I still need your more explanation at the class to add my information about it. See you at the class. Bye...
June 6, 2008 3:07 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dear Mrs. Atti,,, I have read the materials evaluations and evaluations. In my oppinion, this material is not easy. To conduct this materials we must find the criteria - subjective analysis - objective analysis - matching. In this subject I realize assesment is really important to know how far the students' ability. we as a teacher should give the student exercise to know their ability.
SUMMARY
#Materials Evaluation#
-There are three possible ways of turning course design into actual teaching materials:
1.Select from existing materials: materials evaluation.
2.Write your own materials:materials development.
3.Modify exixting materials:materials adaption.
-There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
1.Defining criteria,
2.Subjective analysis,
3.Onjective analysis, and
4.Matching.
Thank you for your attention
Finni Fisachrini ( 031104006)
June 6, 2008 3:11 PM
Blogger Leora_Andovita said...
Leora Grahadila A.
031104055/VII B
Dear Bu Atti,
This time I would like to summarize the materials that I have read.
# Materials Evaluation (page 96-105)
After completing needs analysis and course design, now we decide our materials evaluation. Materails should be evaluated for certain purpose. Evaluation is concerned with relative merit which does not have absolute good or bad-only degrees of fitness for the required purposes. Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.
There are four major steps of evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjectibe analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
We should use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing our own ideas as to what is required (Hutchinson, 1987)
# Evaluation (page 145-156)
There are two levels of evaluation have been brought into prominence:
A. Learner Assesment
The result of this kind of evaluation, for example, enable sponsors, teachers and learners to decide whether and how much language tuition is required.
In ESP, there are three basic types of assesment:
1. Placement tests
2. Achievement tests
3. Proficiency tests
B. Course Evaluation
This kind os evaluation helps to asses whether the course objectives are being met-whether the course, in other words, is doing what it was designed to do.
My comment:
I confess that materials evaluation and evaluation seem complicated. Honestly, I do not understand the whole materials by only reading it once or twice. However, I can catch the gist. The steps of evaluation process which is explained by Hutchinson will be very useful. I wonder if there is another process. Bu, I hope you do not mind if I ask this: are all teachers do the process?
PS: Please...please... answer my question next week and explain if there is another process of evaluation. Thank you very much.
See you next week
June 6, 2008 3:20 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
6th of June 2008
YANUAR DWI BAKTI
031104123
Dear beloved Mrs Atti.
Assalamualaikum wr.wb
How is going on in Jogja? Are you having good time there? I hope so. I also wish the best for those who join the writing competition in UNY. They got our full support to win the competition.
Here some summary and comment about the materials evaluations (page 97-105) and evaluations (page144-156)
SUMMARY
Materials Evaluation
There are is no right or wrong in evaluating materials, the important thing is how closer we can achieve the goal. Many consideration why we have to reduce the disadvantages of the evaluation, as example, time and money. Don’t let your team waste the money just to buy materials, this is important. Another thing is time, you don’t need all day just to write the material , do you? So you better think smart.
Originally, evaluation is the process of matching needs to the right solutions. One thing for sure, be objective not subjective. As a proverb says : don’t judge the book by its cover.
There are four major steps of evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. objective analysis
4. matching
Evaluation
• There are two levels of evaluation
a. learner assessment
In any kind of language course, assessing learners performance is a must. Analyzing their progress from the day one until the end of course.
This assessment takes on greater importance of ESP because ESP concerned with the ability to perform particular communicative task.
Three basic types of assessment:
1. Placements test
2. achievement test
3. proficiency test
b. Course evaluation
Evaluating the whole course, covered all the aspect, is what course evaluation all about.
the purpose of There are four main aspect of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
4. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
COMMENT
Making material evaluation is not as easy as we think, In fact, it needs a lot of preparations. ESP is focus on learners, from them we get all the information that we need. In that way to know the progress of the course, we do some assessment, not only for the learners but also the whole course as well. Mam, i need your help to make me understand about this material. I’m looking forward to meet you again in the class.
walaikum salam. wr. wb
June 6, 2008 3:33 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ass Mrs. Atti,, today i would like to give my comment from ESP subject. in this matrials i had read materials:
a. select from existing materials: material evaluation.
b. Write your own materials: material development.
c. Modify existing materials: materials adaption.
1. Why evaluate materials? Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
2. How do you evaluate materials? Evaluation is basically a matching process:matching needs to available solutions. It means that as the teacher we should match the students' need and give best solution from it.
There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
Then there are two level of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
A. Learner assessment
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement test
the aim of the placement test is to determine the learner' state of knowledge before the ESP course begins.
That is very important for learning process.
primawati 031104009
June 6, 2008 3:34 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Irmayanti
VIII E/ 031104134
Good afternoon Mrs. Atti. I have read the hand book of ESP. basically material evaluation is learning us to exploiting our ability to make own syllabus and to guiding us to make good material. Then, evaluation process can defined into four major steps there are defining criteria, subjective analysis, objective analysis, and matching.After I read this material I know that evaluation process should be systematic and is best seen a matching exercise.I still confused about the steps in using check list so I have to read many times.Unfortunately, this week I will not get the explanation from you. For the evaluation there are two kind of evaluation.Evaluation of the students and evaluation of the course. we have outlined ways in which both kinds of evaluation can be carried out and we have described how each fits into learning centred approach. for the students assement, it means emphasizing what tests can tell us about learning needs.
For this material I still confused because so many things that difficult to understand but i got some new information from this book. I hope next week you will give clear explanation.
That's all about my summary and comment. Thank you for your attention.
June 6, 2008 3:42 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Asallamualaikum wr.wb
Hi mom I am Evie Aprianti (VIII-C 031104080)
I have read about the materials evaluation and Evaluation, these material is very easy to understand. and i think these materials are very useful for us especially for me who want to be teacher.
Material evaluations:
material Evaluations as one of way exploiting a course design. it can also save a lot of duplications of effort by possibly revealing exiting materials that can provide all or part of our materials.
Evaluations:
two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence.
1. Learner assessment.
2. Course evaluation.
in ESP there are basic types of assessment:
1. Placement test.
2. Achievement test.
3. Proficiency test.
June 6, 2008 3:45 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Assalammualaikum Wr. Wb.
Dear Miss Atti,
How are you today?
I’m Asri Restu Gumanti (VIII-D)
After I’ve read the chapter about Materials evaluation on the page 96-105 and Evaluation on the page 144-156 I considered that materials evaluation is one way of exploiting a course design. There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
1. Select from existing materials: Materials evaluation
2. Write your own materials: Materials development
3. Modify existing materials: materials adoption
The evaluation of existing materials can provide a good of source of ideas and techniques. The evaluation process should be systemic and there are four major steps to divide the evaluation process: defining criteria, subjective analysis, objective analysis and matching exercise.
From the chapter of evaluation, I knew that there are two kinds of evaluation: Evaluation of the student (learner assessment) and evaluation of the course (course evaluation). Learner assessment is a need to assess student’s performance at strategic points in the course, this also takes on a greater importance on ESP. The result of this kind of evaluation is to decide whether and how much language tuition is required. It also means what test can tell us about learning needs. Next, for the course design, it helps to assess whether the course objectives are being met-whether the course is doing what it was doing to do. But course and learners evaluation have a similar function in providing feedback on the ESP course. Each type of evaluation also has other purposes and procedures.
Those are my comments, but I still confuse about the figure in 39, a sample achievement test, would you like to explain it for the next meeting...seeya
Thanks for reading my comment.
icelemon_tea2005@yahoo.com
June 6, 2008 4:24 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Good night mom,
this is friska sukmah from VIII D. After read the material in chapter 9 and 12, i conclude that Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particulr purpose. The step of proces evaluation are:Defining criteria, subjective analysis, Objective analysis, mathcing. The evaluation prosess should be systematic.there are two levels of evaluation, first leaner assessment and second course evaluation.in Esp there are 3 basic types of assessment first placement test,second, achivement test and the last profiency test.
From this metrial i still confuse, i didn't understand the purpose and meaning of that materia. maybe if you explain this material i'll be understand.I’m looking forward to meet you again in the class.
Thank mom.
June 6, 2008 6:46 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass.Mrs. Atti
I have already read the materials about Materilas design and evallluation.
Summary
- Materials evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design.
Evaliations is a matter of judging the fitness of something for particular porpuses.
- Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.
The Evaluation process is divided into 4 major steps:
1. defining criteria
2. subjective analysis
3. objective analysis
4. matching
Evaluations
Two levels of evaluation:
1. learner assesment
2.achievement evaluation
In ESP there are 3 basic types of assesment:
1.placement tests
2. achievement tests
3. profiency tests
Evaluation helpe to asses how well th eneeds that have created the dem and for a course are being served.
From the materials that I have read, I still confunsed and did't understand the porpuses and the meaning. i hope next week you can explain it cleary.
Thank you.
Putri Pati Ambarsari
VIII C
June 6, 2008 7:31 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Inggit Permatasari (031104030)
Dear : Bu Atti
Good evening
I have read the materials and I concluded that there are 3 possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. Select from existing materials:materials evaluation.
b. Write your own materials:materials development.
c. Modify existing materials:material adaptation.
1. Why evaluate materials? Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
2. How do you evaluate materials? Evaluation is basically a matching process:matching needs to available solutions. It means that as the teacher we should match the students' need and give best solution from it.
There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
The evaluation process should be systematic,and the teacher should an appropriate materials evaluation for the learner.
"Evaluation"
A demand was generated as a result for courses which would equip particular learners with the necessary skills.
Two levels of evaluation:
A. Learner assessment. Is a need to assess student performance. It means that teacher can give it at the beginning & at the end. In ESP there are 3 basic types of assessment: Placement tests, Achievement tests, Proficiency tests.
B. Course evaluation. This helps to show how well the course is fulfilling the need. There are 4 main aspects of ESP course evaluation (Alderson & Waters, 1983):
a. What should be evaluated?
b. How can ESP courses be evaluated?
c. Who should be involved in the evaluation?
d. When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
Thus, an evaluation is important to give for students in order to measure their ability.
June 6, 2008 7:59 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb bu Atti
My name is Rani Fidiyanti/031103037
here are some of summaries from Material evaluation:
There are three possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
1. select from existing
materials;material evaluation.
2. write your own
materials;material development.
3. modify existing
materials;material adaptation
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
we have to evaluate the material because the decision finally made is likely to be the better for being based on a systematic check of all the important variables. the results of an evaluation will probably lead to a large investment of money in a published course or a large investment of time in home-produced or adapted materials.
we can divide the evaluation process into four major steps
1. Defining criteria.
- on what bases will you judge
materials?
- Which criteria will be more
important?
2. Subjective analysis.
- What realizations of the
criteria do you want in your
course?
3. Objective analysis.
-How does the material being
evaluated realise the criteria?
4. Matching
- How far does the material
match your need.
Comment:
It is very important for us to evaluate materials because it can improve our subject or idea. even though in reality it was so difficult to evaluate materials.
Here are some of summary on Evaluation:
Two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
A. Learning assessment. As with any
language course there is a need
to asses student performance at
strategic points in the course.
B. Course evaluation. A scond
important form of evaluation of
the ESP course itself.
These two forms of evaluation are not always distinct.
In ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
1. Placement test. these are used
to place learners in the ESP
course most suited to their
needs.
2. Achievement tests. these test
how well the learner is keeping
up with the syllabus and can be
administered anytime through the
course.
3. Proficiency test. these assess
whether or not the student can
cope with the demands of a
particular situation .
Course evaluation
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered:
1. What should be evaluated?
2. How can ESP courses be
evaluated?
3. Who should be involved in the
evaluation?
4. When should evaluation take
place?
comment:
In my opinion, it is also important to us to know the person or the students need before we took them in the their place or before placement test.
June 6, 2008 8:16 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Eka Permana
(031104039/VIII-B)
Dear : Bu Atti
Good Evening...
I have read the materials and I summarized that evaluation is concerned with relative merit which does not have absolute good or bad-only degrees of fitness for the required purposes. Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions.
There are four major steps of evaluation process:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjectibe analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
We should use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing our own ideas as to what is required.
In chapter 12, I read about evaluation. there are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
1. learner assessment
in ESP there are three basic types of assessment:
a) placement tests.
b) achievement tests.
c) proficiency tests.
2. course evaluation
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered (Alderson and Waters, 1983):
1) what should be evaluated?
2) how can ESP courses be evaluated?
3) who should be involved in the evaluation?
4) when (and how often) should evaluation take place?
Course evaluation. A second important form of evaluation is the evaluation of the ESP course itself.
My comment:
Bu, actually it's hard for me to understand all the materials. it feels different if I learn without you. But I tried to read it many times. In my opinion, evaluation is very important to measure the ability of students so the teacher will know how far the students understand the materials.
Bu, I hope you don't mind to explain these chapter next week, please. Thank you very much. see you soon
June 6, 2008 8:23 PM
Blogger eli3n said...
Assalamualaikum Dear Bu Atti,
How are you Bu?
My name is Evalina Simanjuntak (031104121/VII). I have read the Material Evaluation (page 96-105) and Evaluation (144-156). Based on the Materials Evaluation that I have read I would like to make conclusion. Material Evaluation is evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. Evaluation is one of steps of making an ESP textbook. It is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In other words, evaluation is a process of determining the appropriate materials for the needs—not only learners’ needs but also teacher’s and sponsors’ needs. Evaluation is basically a matching process can divide the evaluation process into four major steps:
1. Defining criteria
2. Subjective analysis
3. Objective analysis
4. Matching
We should use the materials evaluation process as a means of questioning and developing our own ideas as to what is required. There are two levels of evaluation have thus been brought into prominence:
a. Learner assessment
b. Course evaluation
My Comment:
To be honest, I am quite difficult to understand this book. But I try to read it again and again and finally I can understand the book but not much. Actually, what makes me easy to understand what Esp is, it is because of your explanation. The way you explain the materials is very good and you also make summary of what we had learnt that make me easier to understand ESP. I hope you will explain this material next Friday so I can really understand about this material. Thank you Mam,,,
June 6, 2008 8:43 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Assalamualaikum Dear Mrs. Atti,
How are you today? I hope you always fine. Amin.
I am Dita Octavianita (031104137) VIIE. I have read the Materials Evaluation (page 96-105) and Evaluation (144-156).
This is the summary:
Material Evaluation is evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. There are 3 possible ways of turning your course design into actual teaching materials:
a. Select from existing materials:materials evaluation.
b. Write your own materials:materials development.
c. Modify existing materials:material adaptation.
Evaluation is one of steps of making an ESP textbook. It is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose. In other words, evaluation is a process of determining the appropriate materials for the needs—not only learners’ needs but also teacher’s and sponsors’ needs. There are 4 major steps on the evaluation process:
a. Defining criteria.
b. Subjective analysis.
c. Objective analysis.
d. Matching.
Materials evaluation should be used as the process as a means of questioning and developing ideas as to what is required.
My comment:
Material evaluation and evaluation is very important to us to learn. As a teacher later, we have to make material evaluation and evaluation so that it is very important to understand these chapters. But to tell you the truth, I have not understood about these chapters yet. I hope that you will help me by explaining these chapters. Thank you very much…
June 6, 2008 9:02 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ass.wR.wB
Dear Ibu Atti,
I am Rahimatunnissa (031104081) class VIII/C. I have read the materials of material evaluation and evaluation. Here are my summary and suggestion:
Summary
"Material Evaluation"
There are 3 possible ways of turning course design into actual teaching materials:
* Select from existing materials: material evaluation.
* Write own materials: materials development.
* Modify existing materials: material adaptation.
There are 4 steps in the evaluation process:
* Defining criteria
* Subjective analysis
* Objective analysis
* Matching
"Evaluation"
There are two evaluation have been brought into prominence:
* Learner assessment
In ESP, there are 3 basic types of assessment:
- Assessment tests
- Assessment tests
- Proficiency tests
* Course evaluation
Suggestion:
The evaluation is very important and useful for the teacher and also the students. It is because from that we can know the abilities and the development of the students are increase or not in teaching and learning process.
June 6, 2008 10:16 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
SRI REJEKI
VIIIA / 031104018
After reading Hutchinson and Waters’ book page 96-105 about Material Evaluation and page 144-156 about Evaluation, I would like to tell about my summary and comment.
MY SUMMARY OF MATERIAL EVALUATION
There are possible ways of turning your course design into factual teaching materials. They are materials evaluation, development, and adaptation.
Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose.
Evaluation is basically a matching process: matching needs to available solutions. If this matching is to be done as objectively as possible, it is best to look at the needs and solutions separately. In the final analysis, any choice will be made on subjective grounds.
The evaluation process can be divided into four major steps
o Defining criteria
o Subjective analysis
o Objective analysis
o Matching
MY COMMENT OF MATERIAL EVALUATION
I think in making material evaluation, we need to do some process to get good and right about it. Making it needs much information. We can get the information by interviewing the learners, giving closed or opened questioners etc. The material evaluation must be based on the learners’ needs and the teacher will teach the language according to their needs. As the result, the important thing is the students can use and apply what they have learnt.
MY SUMMARY OF EVALUATION
The evaluation process can be divided into four major steps. They are learner assessment and course evaluation.
Learner assessment: As with any language course there is a need to assess students’ performance at strategic points in the course.
Course evaluation: this kind of evaluation helps to assess whether the course objectives are being met - whether the course, in other words, is doing what it was designed to do.
There are 3 types of learner assessment: placement, achievement, and proficiency test.
There are four main aspects of ESP course evaluation to be considered
*What should be evaluated?
*How can ESP courses be evaluated?
*Who should be involved in the evaluation?
*When (and how often) should evaluation take place?
MY COMMENT OF EVALUATION
According to my opinion, in learning process, we as a teacher need to give assessment or evaluation to our learners in order that we can know about their improvement as long as learning with us so that we know whether the teachers succeed or not in teaching their learners. It is also useful for the students because they can measure their ability after learning process. So, it can make them to have more spirit to learn because my experience in teaching showed that if the students were given assessment or evaluations, they really do the tests enthusiastically to get good mark. Nevertheless, the material that is given to them must be based on they learnt.
I think that’s all my summaries and comments. Hopefully, you will explain this material more clearly. Thank you for reading it.
June 6, 2008 10:38 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
COMMENT : In this chapter (97-105)-(144-156) I was reading at materials evaluation as one way of exploiting a course design. Even if I eventually decide to write own materials, the evaluation of existing materials can provide a good source of ideas and techniques. It can also save a lot of duplication of effort by possibly revealing existing material that can provide all or part of your materials needed. The evaluation process should be systematic and is best seen as a matching exercise : matching your analyzed needs with available solutions. And in this section I must considered some of the mechanics of evaluating learner performance, and in particular I have outlined some of the problems associated with specific purpose testing.Evaluation can fulfill two function such as assessment and feedback.
Iwan Alfian H
031103030
June 6, 2008 10:48 PM
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