Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

The article deals with the actualization of educational (upbringing) potential English textbooks used in senior grades high school. In process teaching a foreign language, teacher can also influence development material, spiritual, professional, and life values ​​of children through correct setting learning goals as well selection content materials. They should be informative, rely on knowledge...

imported instructional English textbooks in Iran and the learners’ attitudes towards English. Further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. To find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in Spectrum and True to Life English textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

Indonesian government provides both national schools and international with different English exposures language uses that are implemented in the textbooks. Considering importance of understanding implicature for students, it needs to be investigated what type textbook has sufficient resources students� learning. Nevertheless, there is a small number previous researchers consider comparing text...