Sharing reflections on ELT coursebooks components

San Juan

Jornada; III Jornadas de Actualización de la Enseñanza del Inglés; 2011

Universidad Nacional de San Juan

Within the framework of a research project being conducted at the School of Languages of the National University of Cordoba, several foreign language coursebooks (CB) are being analyzed. Some CB aspects, such as the table of contents, titles of units, rubrics and some graphic design elements are being studied following Halliday?s language model (Halliday, 1985,1994, 2004).  In this paper, some of the project?s premises will be presented, together with some observations about an EFL Advanced Coursebook, with the purpose of promoting teachers? reflection and a more critical use of coursebooks in general.