Reinventing the wheel with text books - Page 2 - ESL Teaching

studynz2008 · Thu 11-Sep-08, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by waixingren

The reason most language training centers create their own text books is to get more money out of students. These are businesses that don't necessarily care about the improvement of their students--they just want students to be happy and continue to renew.

Exactly. But some contents of their books are simplified. But the contents are not that accurate.

Teaching Supply · Thu 18-Sep-08, 05:30 PM

Language centers are notorious for using inferior books rather than a standard. People don't take classes just because they get taught from a certain book. They take them because of reputation which seems kinda roundabout but it works look at EF for the biggest example you will find they completely revolutionalised the market.

If you do decide to go for in-house books it is best to do research into the authors and get a few case studies to make sure.

View Poll Results: Are we wasting our time with inhouse text books?
Yes definitely. A school has only limited resources compared to professional text book publishers.	17	60.71%
Both have their pros and cons.	7	25.00%
No not all. These inhouse texts fill a niche that isn't provided with off the shelf text books.	4	14.29%
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Thu 18-Sep-08, 05:30 PM	#12 (permalink)
Teaching Supply Guru Join Date: Sep 2008 Nationality: Australian Occupation: Head Hunter Location: Posts: 53	Re: Reinventing the wheel with text books Language centers are notorious for using inferior books rather than a standard. People don't take classes just because they get taught from a certain book. They take them because of reputation which seems kinda roundabout but it works look at EF for the biggest example you will find they completely revolutionalised the market. If you do decide to go for in-house books it is best to do research into the authors and get a few case studies to make sure.

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