The reported past tense is one of the basic grammar topics taught to learners in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. It is explained in the Turkish textbooks used for foreign language teaching that this mode has functions of "hearing from another" and "become aware of the events in a later time". In our daily lives,…

When the course materials prepared in the field of teaching Turkish to foreigners are carefully examined, there is no holistic consistency regarding the instructional design. Dimensions such as theme and unit starters, to what extent and how grammar is handled, to what extent and with what kind of design skills are included, what kind of strategy…

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate linguistic variation within ESL/EFL reading textbooks and between EAP reading textbooks and lower-division university textbooks. Specifically, within ESL/EFL reading textbooks, lexical, lexico-grammatical, and formulaic variation was measured within series of textbooks, across textbooks at the…

The global use of the English language in various international contexts complicates the role of culture in teaching English as an international language. Drawing on a well-known framework of cultural representation consisting of four categories of "products," "practices," "perspectives," and "persons," this…

Considering the theoretical shift caused by the anti-grammar movement of 1980 (Celce-Murcia, 1991) and the increase in the number of learners of Persian as a second language, this study investigated the realization of the consciousness-raising approach of grammar teaching in the intermediate level Persian Language Teaching course books in Iran. In…

The current study aimed to evaluate two different sets of secondary level English textbooks: "Exploring English" used in private schools under the Agha Khan Examination board and "Secondary Stage English" textbooks used in government schools of Sindh province in Pakistan. This study investigated whether these textbooks…

The present study analyzes the English textbook of Grade 8 published by Punjab Textbook Board in Pakistan in the light of student learning outcomes (SLOs) of four competencies: reading and thinking skills, writing skills, oral communication skills, and formal and lexical aspects of language of the latest English curriculum in Pakistan. Competency…

The present study aimed to evaluate the newly compiled English book for the third grade of senior high school, currently called the 12th grade, and the previous English textbook for pre-university students. To this end, 80 experienced teachers, with the experience of teaching both books, were asked to complete an eclectic checklist comprising 38…

Viewing its use in language teaching mainly as a text corpus, this article examines the problem of the assessment of suitability of this material for use in the Greek language course in Cyprus schooling. The suitability of texts for use in language teaching is defined by four parameters, which are described in detail in this article: text…

Adopting systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) as the main theoretical framework, this study as part of a larger research project, aimed to examine how the language of textbooks deployed in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Vietnamese context shifted across levels in a book series. In order to do this, this research…

As Internet carries on its growing in an unceasing manner, more and more students are guided by their teachers to access language learning websites to support self-study. The present study examined some linguistic and interactional properties of French learning websites in terms of readability, referential cohesion and interaction. These…

The purpose of this study is to explore language teachers' perspectives on Iranian third grade senior high school EFL textbook, which is prescribed by the Ministry of Education. In data collection and analysis, the researchers used theoretical sampling and the coding schemes presented in grounded theory. Final analysis yielded "Negative…

A corpus of current editions of statistics textbooks was assessed to compare aspects and levels of readability for the topics of "measures of center," "line of fit," "regression analysis," and "regression inference." Analysis with lexical software of these text selections revealed that the large corpus can…

To explore the multimodality of two representative EFL textbook series for Chinese college students, their visual and verbal semiotic modes were compared. The target textbooks are "Experiencing English" and "New Century College English". Through multimodal discourse analysis, the study aims to shed some light on how to develop…

The importance of the course books in language teaching leads the way to the evaluation of them. Evaluating the teaching materials specially course books can help teachers to understand more about language learning. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate English Results course books which are widely used at Iranian institutes. The focus…