This paper evaluates a textbook called Traveller 4 that is used in the second grade of secondary schools Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, considering its general appearance and design, objectives, content, social cultural contexts, tasks activities, usefulness for developing language skills. The also reviews literature concerning evaluation, referring to various theoretical empirical studies have con...

The article presents a new textbook of the Vietnamese language for beginners, published in MSLU ("Vietnamese beginners: textbook." In 3 parts). It meets requirements that fundamental changes taking place Vietnam, Russia and around world put before teachers language. reveals structure basic principles teaching on it.

F or a century and a half, from the Napoleonic Wars to World War II, the British Empire was the greatest power in the world. At the core of that power was the Royal Navy, the greatest and most advanced naval force in the world. For decades, the distinctive nature, the power and the glory, of the empire and the Royal Navy shaped the character and provided the identity of the British nation. Toda...

to educate the individual towards full emotional and psychological maturity. Professor McKinney has written this excellent textbook as a basis for a course on mental hygiene. These courses have, in fact, been so successful that this book is in its third edition. It is a sad reflection that only a few English universities or, for that matter, medical schools, are aware that they have a role to p...

A number of studies on the cultural content represented in local or global textbooks have increasingly been investigated. However, it is scanty research comparing and textbooks. This study aims to examine two determined by Indonesian Ministry Education Culture, a textbook entitled English Mind for schools implementing new curriculum called Merdeka textbook, When Rings Bell, that not applied it....

The following paper describes the first steps in the development of an ontology for the textbook research discipline. The aim of the project WorldViews is to establish a digital edition focussing on views of the world depicted in textbooks. For this purpose an initial TEI profile has been formalised and tested as a use case to enable the semantical encoding of the resource ’textbook’. This prof...

Background: The spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. This study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching English language to medical students.   Methods: This qualitative-action research study was conducted in Birjand University of Medical Sciences (BUMS), with 60 medica...

As a preliminary step towards conducting a teacher survey on pronunciation teaching in order to design a phonetics course for current and prospective English teachers in Japan, this paper analyses six governmentapproved English textbooks used in junior high schools. The purposes are to examine the types of pronunciation activities in the textbooks and to discuss the knowledge of phonetics requi...

Learning a foreign language takes time and effort. In the last few years, too much emphasis has been placed on oral communication skills and English teachers make their students speak English without paying enough attention to grammatical accuracy. As a result, while students’ ability in terms of fluency has improved, they often cannot communicate appropriately in English due to a lack of gramm...