Mobile device environment has increased demand for educational resources that can be accessed on and off-campus. The resources such as digital textbooks provide various features including multimedia, web-based application and annotation functionality, yet a number of usability issues remains for digital textbook to be a useful educational element. Especially, a digital textbook allows a learner...

despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in english for specific purposes (esp) textbooks. the acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. hence, l2 learners of business english should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

Despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbooks. The acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. Hence, L2 learners of business English should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

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...

Changing the English textbook of the first grade junior high school at Iran’s public schools after 27 years has sparked researchers’ interests in conducting evaluations of the new English textbook to get insights into its strengths and weaknesses. In line with this trend, this study aimed at evaluating the new textbook (Prospect 1) from teachers’ perspectives. To attain this objective, 30 junio...


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 One of the textbooks used in different countries written by non-Arabs is "Modern Standard Arabic" Schulz. By author, he allegedly a communicative input. However, terms strategic competence and perspective foundations preparation educational materials, it was not enough. Based on this issue, objectives research are to know teaching materials textbook Schulz, its from compet...

This paper presents a case-study of automatic construction of a hypertext from a large full-text document. The document we used as input of the automatic authoring process is a well-known textbook of Information Retrieval (IR). We explain in detail the steps performed to transform the textbook into a hyper-textbook. A hyper-textbook is the hypertextual equivalent of a textbook, in the same way ...

This study aimed to: (1) produce textbooks for reading comprehension of non-fiction texts class XI SMK based on the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition learning model, (2) describe results product validation model by experts teachers, (3) assessment textbook students. development research used ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation), which consists five stag...