English Language Textbook Evaluation

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English language textbooks play a very important role in most educational settings. However, there have always been contradictory views among professionals in the fields of teaching and learning English language regarding their limitations and potentials. Whether or not one accepts the value of textbooks, the quality of the materials which are being used in an educational program should be of an acceptable standard to benefit learners. Therefore, there is an absolute need that a set of appropriate criteria be considered and applied through a systematic textbook evaluation procedure in each language program to indicate the merits and probable drawbacks of the books. The purpose of the present study is therefore to develop a reliable set of criteria for evaluating reading comprehension textbooks. Additionally, it aims to undertake a …show more content…

Finally, instructors or heads of EFL departments in target universities were asked for details of the textbooks they used. Based on the obtained data, the textbooks for each of the three courses (reading comprehension 1-3) were ranked by their frequency of use and the books with the highest frequency were chosen as the materials of the present research; overall, three reading comprehension textbooks were selected to be evaluated using the developed checklist. The next stage of the research is applying the developed checklist to the selected materials. Data were collected by matching each of the considered items for evaluation and its features, in each section of the checklist, to the related features of the three target textbooks and the extent of conformation was revealed by

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