This research was designed to look at World English textbook evaluation and its effects on EFL pre-intermediate Iranian learners' speaking skill. Thirty male students were selected randomly in Eshtehard language school. They took a pre-test as a proficiency test first to determine their proficiency. To gain this aim, a language proficiency test, i.e., Nelson test was given to the total particip...

Considering the crucial role textbook evaluation plays in any educational system, this study evaluated 2 textbook series with respect to the identity options they offer to Iranian learners of English. Data were gathered based on reading passages, dialogues, and pictures of Right Path to English (RPE) and Cambridge English for Schools (CES). Although this study is mainly qualitative in nature, q...

considering the crucial role textbook evaluation plays in any educational system, this study evaluated 2 textbook series with respect to the identity options they offer to iranian learners of english. data were gathered based on reading passages, dialogues, and pictures of right path to english (rpe) and cambridge english for schools (ces). although this study is mainly qualitative in nature, q...

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...

The concept of the textbook has been changing over the last two decades since the World Wide Web was introduced. The word “textbook” has become a metaphor when new dynamic, personal, open, reusable digital learning resources have appeared. The concrete name of this concept is still missing. We can meet words like “personal textbooks”, “open textbooks”, “flexbooks”, “personal digital library”. B...

This article aims at contributing to the discussion regarding conceptual approach of modeling world picture within education textbook discourse taking English language teaching as an example. The argument is that discourse, where a even more important, should be linked and possible referred modern present-to-day world. A speaker, in our case learner, viewed representative both his/her individua...

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...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...