Among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. The wealth of published material for English language teaching (ELT) available in the mark...

The fastest-growing student population in U.S. schools today is children of immigrants, half of whom do not speak English fluently and are thus labeled English learners. Although the federal government requires school districts to provide services to English learners, it offers states no policies to follow in identifying, assessing, placing, or instructing them. Margarita Calderón, Robert Slavi...

textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. the problem is that among a wide range of textbooks in market which is appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluates a series of elt textboo...

This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used public junior high schools China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through framework, paper aims to analyze compare distribution chosen textbooks. The results reveal that books contain diverse content, despite significant imbalance bet...

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...

One of the most problematic issues in ELT textbooks used public secondary schools Turkey is their inability to reflect active practice principles action-oriented approach, which Turkish curriculum for primary and claims have adopted. The textbooks, thus, are inefficient, not mention inadequate, train social actors, a goal set by Common European Framework Reference Languages (CEFR). This paper c...

ID ('intelligent design') is not science, but a form of creationism; both are very different from the simple theological proposition that a divine Creator is responsible for the natural patterns and processes of the Universe. Its current version maintains that a 'Designer' must intervene miraculously to accomplish certain natural scientific events. The verdict in the 2005 case Kitzmiller, et al...

Higher-order thinking skills become the target for learning outcomes in current curriculum. The integration of those levels must be included textbook. English textbook is a kind media students and teachers doing process. A qualified book should provide HOTS instructions to achieve curriculum’s goal. This study aims analyze use reading questions fiction texts find most dominant used. was descrip...