An evaluation of the coursebook “ English File Elementary Student’s Book – third edition” for English majored students at a pre-university school for ethnic students in Phu Tho province = Đánh giá giáo trình “English File Elementary Student’s Book - Third Edition” dùng cho học sinh chuyên Tiếng Anh tại một trường dự bị đại học dành cho người dân tộc ở tỉnh Phú Thọ

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The present study evaluates the coursebook ―English File Elementary
 Student‘s Book – Third Edition‖ by Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden
 (Oxford University Press, 2014), which has been currently used in the first semester
 for English majored students at a pre-university school for ethnic students in Phu
 Tho province. This research explores the extent to which a foreign-produced
 English coursebook used at an ethnic school has oriented towards an English as an
 International Language (EIL)-oriented pedagogy and prepares students to use
 English for cross-cultural communication. On the purpose of achieving this goal, a
 survey for 140 students and interviews for 6 teachers were employed to collect the
 data. The findings indicate that despite the fact that international communication
 may involve a broad spectrum of global English users, the coursebook tends to
 focus merely on preparing students to use English for communication with
 Anglophone English users, thus only partially meeting the learners‘ multiple
 communicative needs in the real world. Our findings highlight the importance of
 moving towards an EIL-oriented approach in the development and use of ELT
 materials, adding that several proposed course book revisions have been proposed
 to make it more relevant to the local learning context and make the best use of the
 material in the years to come.