Knowing the level of content Arabic textbooks at high school is important because it starting point in preparing teaching materials university level. Without knowing level, repetition can occur determining and cause delays increasing linguistic to a higher The purpose this study was analyze description general secondary based on Common European Terms Reference. In writing research, researcher u...

This study aims to determine the quality of Arabic textbook "al-Nada al-awwal al-Lughah al-Arabiyyah al-Ittisoliyyah TAC401" as a teaching material used in learning level one for undergraduate students taking third language courses at UiTM . Meanwhile, analyzing data, author uses content analysis (content analysis). found that this book is suitable be universities, especially UiTM. because subs...

This study investigated the relationship between affordances for task-based teaching in a textbook and teachers’ awareness of uptake these affordances. Specifically, it compared evaluated communicativeness task-likeness activities textbook, New Cutting Edge, Elementary (Cunningham & Moore, 2005) then contrasted findings with classroom observation data on way were implemented by three Vietna...

This study investigated the effectiveness of discourse structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) on students’ reading comprehension. Seventy learners were randomly divided in two equal experimental and control groups. They took a pre-test of reading comprehension. Then the experimental group analyzed the textual structures based on the frameworks of GOs and discussed the cohesive and coherent de...

We are suggesting a framework for open access publishing of comprehensive, elaborately structured digital textbooks, potentially enriched by extensive non-textual data. The framework will comprise of a software toolbox containing a collaborative authoring platform, manuscript workflow system, tools for editorial work, presentation platform, updating workflow, interfaces for dissemination and lo...

Digital textbooks have been growing popular as a lower-cost and more interactive alternative to paper books. Despite the recent rise in adoption, little is known about how people use these resources. Prior studies have investigated student perceptions of digital textbooks in the classroom via interviews and surveys but have not quantified actual usage patterns. We present, to our knowledge, the...

Purpose – This paper investigates the potential electronic textbooks (e-textbooks) have to augment the learning and education of children. Design/methodology/approach – The study consisted of a total of 60 pupils, split into five groups of 12 participants (six boys and six girls). Each of the five groups were in turn split into two sub-groups of six (three boys and three girls): one sub-group u...