The present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in four common English textbooks, namely Touch Stone, American File, Top Notch, and Total English series used at Iranian English language institutes and to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these coursebooks. In order to compare cultural exophoric references used in these coursebooks, the researche...

Textbooks play an essential role in the teaching of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), especially EFL as a Foreign Language) settings. Finding out philosophical foundation commercial textbook can be basis whether or not that is suitable particular learning context. Hence, this study aims to describe and analyze English Purpose (ESP) coursebook entitled ‘English Accounting’ published by Oxford...

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore whether Advanced Reading, an intensive reading coursebook in advanced level, includes elements critical thinking, which refers the skill, disposition, and knowledge. Critical thinking processes from Thomas Lok’s (2015) framework. This adopted a qualitative approach using evaluation checklist adapted Lok (2015). A deductive content analysis used...

Fundamental Algorithms build a basis knowledge for every computer science undergraduate or a professional programmer. It is a set of basic techniques one can find in any (good) coursebook on algorithms and data structures. Thus, if one checks the contents of one such recent book by Mehlhorn and Sanders [105] he would find that we address most of the algorithmic problems covered in the book. In ...