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...

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 paper explored the types of collocations used in an English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK, Kelas X, Semester 1). The primary source data was textbook, Inggris, which published by Indonesian government for first-year or class 10 students senior high schools (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK). study a corpus analysis. researchers utilized AntCont 3.5.8 to extract and discover required then ...

Representation of cultural aspects in the textbook has become a prominent issue present context and it is also important for multicultural country like Nepal. This paper explores representations socio-culturally diverse groups people Nepal with reference to Grade Nine English published by Curriculum Development Center its implication analyzing content textbook. The information was collected thr...