In the past decade, language functions have attracted increasing attention of Chinese secondary school English teachers. However, students seem not to have explicit knowledge in this aspect. This study investigated Chinese students’ awareness of functions and explored the causes of the status quo. Based on the results achieved through a questionnaire survey, textbooks analyses and teaching anal...

Abstract Culture learning is complicated in teaching English as an international language (EIL), given the global contexts which being used for various purposes. This study aims to examine cultural representations four series of high school textbooks distributed China and Germany. It categorized cultures into types elements within each type culture order question breadth depth representations. ...

This study aims to analyze and evaluate the EFL Textbooks for eleventh grade of Vocational High School. The entitle textbook is Forward, an English Course Students. have become essential thing used in foreign language teaching. a guide teachers carrying out learning teaching process classroom. consists syllabus, methodology, supporting materials school. Currently, choosing challenging job becau...

The present study investigated school general English achievement and group work among Iranian junior high school students. The main question this study tried to answer was whether group work could enhance a higher general English achievement among junior high school students. To answer this question, 60 female learners were divided into experimental and control group randomly with 30 members i...