1. Evaluate a vocabulary unit in a textbook.
Write a critical analysis and evaluation of a unit focusing on vocabulary from a textbook of your choice. You will be
required to critique the effectiveness of the unit based on the vocabulary issues and principles covered in the
module, including, but not limited to, the frequency level of the lexis in the unit, its appropriateness for the level of
the target learners, whether it accounts for both vocabulary size and depth, its account of receptive and productive
knowledge, whether it recycles the target vocabulary, and the method of presentation of vocabulary. This
evaluation will have to be critical, and your claims and justifications for the appropriateness or lack of
appropriateness of the activities/rationale in the vocabulary unit must be well supported by relevant literature and
research evidence. End your essay by discussing and justifying what conclusions you have reached from this
textbook critique and how this might affect the ways in which you would teach vocabulary in the future. Make sure
you include the vocabulary tasks in the textbook unit you analyse as an appendix to the essay. Make sure that you
only include the tasks that are relevant to your discussion, and that you refer to them in your essay, instead of
simply scanning the entire unit.
