Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...

Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission academic often relies, especially in early stages learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates text difficulty science textbooks used secondary English-medium instruction schools Hong Kong, with focus their lexical coverage and readability. It compares English language that as foreign textbooks. T...

This paper discusses learner-centered approaches and evaluation in English language teaching and learning materials design. Based on the researches in this field, a framework is developed for the evaluation of learner-centered components contained in the materials. Thereafter, we apply the criteria to the assessment of two major English textbooks College English (1991) and Experiencing English ...