Materials evaluation studies have constantly demonstrated that there is no one fixed procedure for conducting textbook evaluation studies. Instead, the criteria must be selected according to the needs and objectives of the context in which evaluation takes place. The speaking skill as part of the communicative competence has been emphasized as an important objective in language teaching. The pr...

textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. the problem is that among a wide range of textbooks in market which is appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluates a series of elt textboo...

This paper presents a part of an on-going project that aims at developing an instrument to evaluate English language teaching textbooks, called the English Language Teaching (ELT) Textbook Evaluation Checklist. The present study sought to evaluate the validity, reliability and economy of the developed checklist. It also aimed to find out to what extent the users of the checklist were satisfied ...

English Language Teaching (ELT) textbook evaluation checklists are instruments that help teachers select the most appropriate books for their learners. This paper presents a phase of an on-going project proposed out of the need for a valid, reliable and a practical checklist. The phase includes a focus group study designed to further refine a checklist previously developed by the present resear...

this study evaluated 2 elt textbooks (four corners, book 2 and four cornersbook 3) drawing on bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt); it examined the extent towhich these elt textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the brt(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. to this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...