<p><em>A textbook is developed to provide language input for learners. The should contain appropriate use assist learners be able communicate effectively from the communicative competence perspective which focuses on pragmatics. For this reason, present study attempts investigate speech act presentation in a local English metapragmatic, sociopragmatic, and pragmalinguistics point of...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the English language textbook from Ministry Education and Culture (MOEC) for grade 5 Elementary School Level, entitled “My Next Word 5”. As an evaluation method, content-analysis was used in study. To book, researchers adapt instrument Minister Regulation Number 8 2016 book Cunnings worth (1995); (1) Materials, (2) Language (3) Materials presenting (4) G...

The purpose of this research is to develop an English textbook for students computer science. This used ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate). researchers followed the five steps procedure produce textbook. Students and lecturers were involved in research. materials book based on students' needs have been validated by science lecturers. product has also accommodated four basic s...

We describe a program, BEATRIX, that can understand textbook physics problems specified by a combination of English text and a diagram. The result of the understanding process is a unified internal model that represents the problem, including information derived from both the English text and the diagram. The system is implemented as two opportunistic coparsers, one for English and one for diag...

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...