TEXTBOOK EVALUATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR …

TEXTBOOK evaluation : A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE FITNESS OF THE HONG KONG NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL (NSS) CURRICULUM by Wong Pak Wing Lawrence Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in Teaching English as a Second Language Department of English City University of Hong Kong May 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to express sincere thanks to my thesis supervisor Dr Belinda Ho for her careful mentoring. She spent endless hours giving me professional advice and reading different draft versions of this thesis. This piece of work would have never come to its existence without her input and creative inspiration. Also, I would like to thank Dr Matthew Peacock for inspiring me to research on the area of TEXTBOOK evaluation . I would like to express my gratitude for his patience, guidance and inspiration. ITABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT II List of Acronyms IV List of Appendices V 1. INTRODUCTION Background 1 The Recent Introduction of the NSS Curriculum 1 Overview of the TEXTBOOK Situation in Hong Kong 2 Purpose of this study 3 2.

total of forty-eight major published textbook evaluation frameworks, produced within the period of 1970 to 2008, were examined. It was found out that only Byrd (2001)’s framework had given priority to fitness of the textbook with the curriculum (pp.343). Subsequent in …

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