Criteria for coursebook assessment This textbook should be used by learners of English at a secondary level. That is why it is meant to respond to the needs of a specific group of students, furthermore, it offers supplementary materials for both the student and the teacher, as to enable a better communication between the two. It is not very important that the first criterion should appear in a student's book. To this purpose, the authors …showed first 75 words of 755 total…

…showed last 75 words of 755 total…remained unanswered throughout the book. Reading exercises, for instance, speculate every aspect of a small piece of text without mentioning a larger context or background. The complementary materials are to be used and this textbook provides a number of listening exercises in which audio cassettes are necessary. The textbooks' local availability is not an important criterion as mailing is very frequent nowadays. To this respect, Prospect Super Advanced is available in Romania through specialized bookshops.