Up to the recent past, Textbook Boards were the only institutions in Pakistan that had the mandate to develop textbooks for both government and private schools affiliated with public examination bodies of the country. These boards have been working under their respective provincial governments. This situation developed a culture of using a single-textbook in schools across the country. However,...

Considering educational equity in English education as an important issue at schools in this modern time, this study aimed at comparing English education at schools of Iran and Finland from an educational equity point of view. The researcher used a qualitative research method comprising library method of research to do this study. To this end, a lot of up-to-date and useful articles, theses and...

Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. The present study carries out an evaluation of two series of ELT textbooks used for teaching English language in Iranian high schools since 1970 to 2010. For this purpose, Tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model (see Appendix) has been employed. The results suggest that one of the main factors for the student...

This study aims to evaluate an English textbook in a private school example Sinop. Although schools and public follow the same curriculum, there are differences preference. In this study, as external evaluation, was examined terms of design elements; and, internal book instructional elements. The research qualitative process carried out by two different researchers. Results showed that although...

This study was qualitative descriptive, which investigated what kind of gender features emerged for the male and female represented in image textbook elementary school. The data this were collected from an English entitled “Stairway a fun easy (for Grade IV Elementary Schools”, published by Tiga Serangkai. present form images texts taken textbook. analysed following theory visual grammar (Kress...

This paper investigates the differences and similarities between English open class recordings of Chinese American elementary schools by using video analysis, media data transcription method, statistical method. The samples are all excellent classroom examples. class, “Danny’s Summer Vacation”, is selected from “The Eighth Collection Open Lessons for Primary Schools”. public lesson “Information...