English Language Teaching (ELT) textbook evaluation checklists are instruments that help teachers select the most appropriate books for their learners. This paper presents a phase of an on-going project proposed out of the need for a valid, reliable and a practical checklist. The phase includes a focus group study designed to further refine a checklist previously developed by the present resear...

This study aims at exploring Pakistani English as a multicultural language and the importance of grasping reality intercultural competence in teaching (ELT). It conceptualizes terms Three Concentric Circles model suggested by B. Kachru (1985). Innovative changes deviations have been recognized indigenized features that emerge due to influence L1 cultural context. is theory-based content analysi...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

The Caenorhabditis elegans GATA transcription factor genes elt-1 and elt-3 are expressed in the embryonic hypodermis (also called the epidermis). elt-1 is expressed in precursor cells and is essential for the production of most hypodermal cells (22). elt-3 is expressed in all of the major hypodermal cells except the lateral seam cells, and expression is initiated immediately after the terminal ...

introduction one very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. this is specifically true in efl textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. that is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...