This paper considers some issues in designing a textbook for students of psychology and education enrolled the same ESP course. These include balancing students’ objective subjective learning needs selection real content aimed at developing necessary competences accordance with course objectives, as well selecting carrier to satisfy interests both disciplines. An additional challenge involves a...

This article aims at contributing to the discussion regarding conceptual approach of modeling world picture within education textbook discourse taking English language teaching as an example. The argument is that discourse, where a even more important, should be linked and possible referred modern present-to-day world. A speaker, in our case learner, viewed representative both his/her individua...

<p>Textbook has an important role in the process of teaching and learning activities. Therefore, this study aims to examine: 1) The Scientific Approach English textbook “<em>Forward</em>”; 2) Communicative Competence “<em>Forward</em>”. method used was a content analysis which it is kind descriptive qualitative research. results indicated that had implemented all s...

  University students in Iran need English to reinforce their specialist knowledge in order to meet their academic needs and not to be isolated from technological advances. The architecture students at the university level in Iran are no exception. Bearing this in mind, the present research intends to address itself to the following questions: 1) what are the problems in materials design in ESP...

To analyze and evaluate textbooks, researchers have either proposed scales and checklists to be filled by teachers and learners or conducted qualitative investigations of the match between SLA theories and textbook activities. This study, however, employs the microstructural approach of schema theory to scrutinize the reading passages of “Mosaic 1 Reading”. To this end, 17 passages of the textb...