LISTENING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: QUALITY REVIEW

Tablet-based English Listening practice with longer listening materials

When teachers introduce listening and speaking activities in school education, they are no choice but use relatively short materials due to short class-time length. But the ordinary length of lectures or talk shows is more than 20 to 30 minutes.It implies that in real world, people are required to have the ablitiy to listen to longer English materials. In this paper, we examine the speech items...

Problematizing Locally-Produced Instructional Materials: The Case of Vocabulary in Iranian Pre-University English Textbook

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

Problematizing Locally-Produced Instructional Materials: The Case of Vocabulary in Iranian Pre-University English Textbook

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

An Investigation into the Effect of Authentic Materials on Iranian EFL Learners’ English Listening Comprehension

Listening comprehension means the process of understanding speech in a second or foreign language. It is the perception of information and stimuli received through the ears. Iranian EFL learners have serious difficulties in English listening comprehension because Iranian universities pay more attention to grammar and reading. The researchers used a set of authentic materials to improve Iranian ...

problematizing locally-produced instructional materials: the case of vocabulary in iranian pre-university english textbook