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Pourya Javahery – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study uses Critical Autoethnographic Narrative (CAN) to explore the influence of standardized coursebooks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching in Iran. Drawing on over ten years of experience as an English teacher and supervisor, the research highlights how these coursebooks act as tools of control, constraining teacher autonomy…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Power Structure
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Salehi, Hadi; Khadivar, Zahra; Mehrabi, Mahmood – International Education Studies, 2015
Evaluation is basically a matching process, which concerns matching learners' needs to available solutions. Through analysis and assessment of ESP textbooks, a much more promising and desirable approach to a theory of ESP takes place. To this aim, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the ESP medical textbook. To gather the necessary…
Descriptors: Medical Education, English for Special Purposes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Zohrabi, Mohammad – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study reports on how a heterogeneous mixed-ability large class (63 students) turned into a cohesive and functioning class. To promote learner autonomy, students were made responsible to identify their own needs and objectives. The participants of this study consisted of undergraduate chemistry students who had taken the English for General…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ahour, Touran; Towhidiyan, Bayezid; Saeidi, Mahnaz – English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of "English Textbook 2" for Iranian EFL second grade high school students from the teachers' perspectives. The participants of the study consisted of 25 English teachers (8 females and 17 males) randomly selected from different high schools in Boukan, Iran. The evaluation…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)