國家教育研究院

　　自1980年代起，溝通式教學觀（communicative approach）已成為全球最受歡迎且廣為提倡的外語教學取向，此教學思潮也從1990年代起引進國內，成為我國中小學英語課程設計主軸。而教科書是具體轉化課綱的載體，檢視英語教科書設計符合溝通式教學原理的程度，是展現教科書層級轉化課綱的實踐成效，故本研究一方面藉由「符合溝通式教學觀的英語教科書設計指標」檢視九年一貫課程國中英語教科書設計，以了解課綱實施成效；另方面希望從研究成果中反思，對即將實施的12年國教國中英語教科書之編與審，提供未來可能或可行的改進方向。

　　Since the 1980s, the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach has become the most popular and widely advocated foreign language teaching approach around the world. The CLT has been introduced in Taiwan since the 1990s, and became the principal part of English curricular design in primary and secondary school. Besides, the textbook is a medium to convert the curriculum guidelines concretely. And evaluating the extent of the English textbook design that is keeping with the CLT principle demonstrates the practical results of level converted curriculum guidelines of textbooks. Thus, on the one hand, the study evaluate Grade 1-9 curriculum English textbook design in junior high school to understand the effects of practical of curriculum guidelines through the “the criteria of English textbooks with CLT”; on the other hand, we hope to inspect the might-be or feasible improved ways of compilation and examination of English textbooks in junior high school.