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Unit 14 Evaluating and Adapting Textbooks 123. Good textbooks should have the following features (Tomlinson1998)： 1). Good textbooks should attract the students curiosity, interest and attention. In order to do this, textbooks should have novelty（新奇的东西）, variety, attractive layout (present\ explain\ describe\ design), appealing content, etc. Of course they should also make sure that learning really takes place when the students use the textbooks. It is not necessarily enough that students enjoy the textbooks. 2). Textbooks should help students to feel at ease. The layout of presentation, tasks and activities, and texts and illustrations should all look friendly to the students so that they feel relaxed when seeing them. 3). Textbooks should help students to develop confidence. Good textbooks help to build up students confidence by providing tasks or activities that students can cope with. 4). Textbooks should meet students needs. What is covered in the textbooks should be relevant and useful to what the students need to learn and what they want to learn. 5). Textbooks should expose the students to language in authentic use. Generally speaking, . textbooks written in authentic language are more motivating and challenging. 6). Textbooks should provide the students with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes. 7). Textbooks should take into account that the positive effects of language teaching are usually delayed. Research into SLA shows that it is a gradual rather than an instantaneous process and that this is equally true for instructed learning (formal learning).So it is important for textbooks to recycle instruction and to provide frequent and ample exposure to the instructed language features in communicative use. 8). Textbooks should take into account that students differ in learning styles. Tasks and activities should be variable and should cater for a range of learning styles so all students can benefit. 9). Textbooks shoul