The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...

The present study investigated the potential role of tasks in engaging Iranian EFL learners in task-supported language learning, affecting on learner-centered instruction and the correspondence between the objectives and contents in current pre-university English course book (Learning to Read English for Pre-University Students). To do this, 100 Iranian EFL teachers of pre-university grade were...

This qualitative study is an attempt to develop our knowledge on using the back-channels in English conversations as a secondlanguage obtaining English language textbooks for Iranian school students through the old and new educational system. The textbook ofsecond guidance school grade has been compared with seventh juniorhigh school grade (as the frst group), and the textbook...

The present study analyzes the audio materials that accompany six government-approved textbooks for Japanese junior high school students to determine the variety of English accents used and to discuss the choice of pronunciation and listening models for Japanese learners. Despite the fact that the textbooks introduce various characters, not only from the Inner Circle but also from the Outer and...

This study was aimed at obtaining the profile of alignment between learning outcomes and assessment tasks on ‘writing’ skills development in “Pathway to English Grade X” textbook with regards Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. The data were 32 statements 49 items 10 chapters. used Taxonomy table (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) as framework reference conducting collection interpretation. results showed ...

In this demo paper we describe the natural language generation component of an electronic textbook application, called Inquire1. Inquire interacts with a knowledge base which encodes information from a biology textbook. The application includes a question-understanding module which allows students to ask questions about the contents of the book, and a questionanswering module which retrieves th...