Agnieszka Krzykowska

Macro skills in Business Result intermediate and International Express intermediate: comparative analysis Introduction and the purpose of the study:
to find out which macro skill dominates over the others (its difficult to find percentage and measure it, but by analyzing the exercises one by one and determining which macroskills students use, the overall number of macro skills used can be determined). to determine which coursebook focuses on which macro skill to determine, by comparison of the findings, which coursebook is better for communicative purpose and which one is more versatile, all-embracing.

Chapter 1 Macro skills

1.1. Definition and role of macro skills 1.1.1. Reading 1.1.2. Writing 1.1.3. Listening 1.1.4. Speaking 1.2. Macro skills evaluation in coursebooks Main bibliography used in this Chapter: Dakowska, M., (2005). Teaching English as a foreign language : a guide for professionals. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Dudley-Evans, T. & Jo St. John, M., (1998). Developments in ESP: a multi-disciplinary approach. Cambrige University Press.

Chapter 2 Review of Literature: Coursebook evaluation

2.1. Business English as ESP 2.2. Use of coursebooks in ESP (Business English) 2.3. Coursebook evaluation 2.4. Arguments for and against using coursebooks. Main bibliography used in this Chapter: Cunningsworth, A., (1984). Evaluating and Selecting EFL Teaching Materials. Oxford: Heinemann. Dakowska, M., (2005). Teaching English as a foreign language : a guide for professionals. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.

Agnieszka Krzykowska Dudley-Evans, T. & Jo St. John, M., (1998). Developments in ESP: a multi-disciplinary approach. Cambrige University Press. Harmer, J., (2004). The Practice of English Language Teaching. Harlow: Longman.

Spivey, N. N., (1997). The Constructivist Metaphor: Reading, Writing, and the Making of Meaning. San Diego: Academic Press.

Chapter 3 Macro skills in Business English coursebooks: analysis

3.1. Introduction (rationale for choosing the two coursebooks) 3.2. Business Result Intermediate Chapter 1 analysis1 3.3. International Express Chapter 1 analysis 3.4. Findings

Chapter 4 Macro skills in Business English coursebooks : Comparative Analysis

4.1. Comparative analysis2 4.2. Results

Discussion and Limitations of the Study

Final Conclusions

Each exercise is analysed with regard to which macroskill it develops and this macroskill is given one point e.g. one listening exercise one point for Listening. Then, the numbers of 4 macro skills are summed up and the dominance of some macro skills should be observed in each coursebook. 2 Then, the numbers of macro skills from each coursebook are compared with the number of macro skills from another coursebook.