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...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...

after the teacher, the most important factor in foreign language classroom is the textbook. it is vital that the best possible text be chosen for each situation. even with the development of new technologies that allow for higher quality teacher-generated materials, demand for textbooks continues to grow, and the publishing industry responds with new series and textbooks each year. therefore, i...

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...

Among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. The wealth of published material for English language teaching (ELT) available in the mark...

abstract textbook design and evaluation has recently turned into a very important area in english language teaching. this paper evaluates the english textbooks taught in iranian junior high schools: right path to english which was the medium of instruction until 2013 and the recently designed textbook-prospect- which replaced it. for this purpose, tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model was e...

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 ...