An evaluation of the course book Complete PET from the prospective of teachers

Abstract

This study sets out to investigate teachers’ perspectives on the course book Complete PET of English B1 course after its one- year use at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The research subjects were 12 teachers who directly taught the English classes. A questionnaire based on the evaluation checklist adopted by Mukundan, Nimechisalem and Hajimohammadi (2011) was employed as the data collection instrument; after that, 12 teachers were invited to participate in interviews to clarify the information. The findings showed that the course book was appropriate for the level of the students; the listening, reading and writing skills generally satisfied the objectives of the course. Nevertheless, many speaking activities were not indeed valuable; there was an insufficient variety in the topics, and the design was not eye-catching.