In the past decade, many scholars conducted research concerning cultural content, policy changes, and other issues in field of EFL textbook evaluation China. However, a limited number studies shift their attention to task types used textbooks. This study employs Nunan’s (1999) taxonomy investigate how are presented four main government-approved English textbooks at high school level C...

In recent years, a number of large-scale writing assessments (e.g., TOEFL iBT) have employed integrated writing tests to measure test takers’ academic writing ability. Using a quantitative method, the current study examined how written textual features and use of source material(s) varied across two types of text-based integrated writing tasks (i.e., listening-to-write vs. reading-to-write) and...

The main purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to investigate the effects of linear process versus genre-based approach on EFL learners’ written production. To this end, 40 learners of English at intermediate level were randomly selected as the participants of the study and assigned into two groups of experimental (process and genre) which received different types of instruction f...