Critical Analysis Of Botellon

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INTRODUCTION

The objective of this assignment is to analyze two units, one from English textbook, Botellon and the other unit, Bachillerato Made Easy from Richmont Publishing. As we analyze the units, we will compare and contrast the way the two units deal with the four skills, reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Our analysis also includes the authenticity of materials found on the textbook as well as the grammar usage, focus on form and specific linguistic elements.
This paper reflects our personal beliefs and preferred choice of one material over the other. We provide reasons of why we believe one course book better fits the needs of the students and help to develop communicative competences.
Implicit Learning Theories in the Units
To start off with, the unit from the course book Bachillerato made easy, Richmond and the unit Botellon refer the behaviourism learning implicitly. The approach is only concerned with observable stimulus-response behaviors, and states all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment (McLeod, 2017). Therefore, in the unit Botellon, clear objectives are stated, such as ‘‘to express an opinion on a given topic justifying it with relevant arguments and using appropriate linguistic expressions’’, and this is helpful …show more content…

Therefore, exposing students to the language of the real world helps them acquire an effective receptive competence in the target language (Guariento & Morley, 2001). As stated in the unit from Bachillerato Made Easy, the reading passage is about friendship, which is a meaningful topic for adolescents, and students of all ages, so this promotes the use of the target language. Likewise, in the unit Botellon, students are required to listen to several points of view on the Botellon issue form different types of

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