Currently, Communicative Language Teaching has been popular around the world and has a profound effect on second language acquisition since the 1970s. For Communicative Language Teaching to be successful, there is a need for appropriate teaching materials. This paper analyzes speaking tasks in Chinese and Swedish textbooks for grade 8,Go for it and Magic. The analysis presents content analysis,...

This study sought to examine the type and frequency of tasks in the Iranian high school English course books (Prospect 1, 2, 3 & English Book 1, 2, 3). The corpus was analyzed based on Nunan’s (1999) framework composed of five main task types, namely cognitive, interpersonal, linguistics, affective, and creative. To this end, the whole content of the aforementioned course books went through con...

This discourse analysis aimed to investigate the different propaganda techniques used by students in their communicative tasks. study utilized qualitative method with as an approach identify and understand of persuasion manifested speaking performance. The researcher analysed linguistic corpora using theory Gambril on techniques. Data revealed that exhibited such transfer, testimonial, glitteri...

Vocabulary learning is pivotal for language as it a cross-sectional aspect related to both receptive and productive skills. L2 vocabulary has given way substantial body of research in which the role implicit explicit instruction been central. Bearing mind importance communicative tasks sources learning, this study will explore how presented with context without retained. 39 undergraduate studen...