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    Firda Yanuar Suksmana is a student with NIM 151811813023. Their assignment is about adapting a textbook. While a textbook provides a fixed syllabus and materials, a teacher can make changes when teaching, based on their beliefs, goals, the students' needs, and the context. Textbooks offer advantages like a course structure and materials, but may not be relevant, at the right level, or cover everything needed. A textbook represents the views of its authors and should be examined to understand these views embedded in its content, portrayals, and exercises. Factors beyond the textbook, like a teacher's beliefs and the context, also influence how it is adapted.

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    Firda Yanuar Suksmana is a student with NIM 151811813023. Their assignment is about adapting a textbook. While a textbook provides a fixed syllabus and materials, a teacher can make changes when teaching, based on their beliefs, goals, the students' needs, and the context. Textbooks offer advantages like a course structure and materials, but may not be relevant, at the right level, or cover everything needed. A textbook represents the views of its authors and should be examined to understand these views embedded in its content, portrayals, and exercises. Factors beyond the textbook, like a teacher's beliefs and the context, also influence how it is adapted.

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    Firda Yanuar Suksmana is a student with NIM 151811813023. Their assignment is about adapting a textbook. While a textbook provides a fixed syllabus and materials, a teacher can make changes when teaching, based on their beliefs, goals, the students' needs, and the context. Textbooks offer advantages like a course structure and materials, but may not be relevant, at the right level, or cover everything needed. A textbook represents the views of its authors and should be examined to understand these views embedded in its content, portrayals, and exercises. Factors beyond the textbook, like a teacher's beliefs and the context, also influence how it is adapted.

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    Name : Firda Yanuar Suksmana

    NIM : 151811813023
    Assignment : Adapting Textbook.

    The difference between writing a textbook and teaching from a textbook is that once a textbook is
    written, it is fixed, whereas when you teach with it, you can make changes in how you use it. The
    changes stem from your beliefs and understandings, your goals and objectives, your students' needs,
    and the requirements of your context.

    Some advantages of using a textbook:


    - It provides a syllabus for the course because the authors have made decisions about what will be
    learned and in what order.
    - It provides security for the students because they have a kind of road map of the course: they know
    what to expect, they know what is expected of them.
    - It provides a set of visuals, activities, readings, etc., and so saves the teacher time in finding or
    developing such materials.
    - It provides teachers with a basis for assessing students' learning.
    Some disadvantages of using a textbook:
    - The content or examples may not be relevant or appropriate to the group you are teaching.
    - The content may not be at the right level.
    - There may be too much focus on one or more aspects of language and not enough focus on others, or
    it may not include everything you want to include.

    To understand how a textbook is an instrument or a tool, we can compare it to a musical instrument, a


    piano, for example. Textbooks represent a view of language, learning, and social context held by authors
    and editors. In some cases, the view may be compatible with your own, in other cases not. An important
    part of investigating a textbook is to become aware of these views, which are embedded in the aspects
    of language addressed in the textbook, who and what are portrayed in the visuals, readings, and
    dialogues, and how students are asked to work with the material.

    Factors other than the textbook itself:


    In the last investigation, your beliefs and understandings about how people learn played an important
    role in your interpretation of the text. In order to make decisions about how to adapt a textbook at the
    activity, unit, or syllabus level, it is important to be aware of your beliefs and understandings, the givens
    of your context, and what you know about students and their needs.

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