This paper presents a part of an on-going project that aims at developing an instrument to evaluate English language teaching textbooks, called the English Language Teaching (ELT) Textbook Evaluation Checklist. The present study sought to evaluate the validity, reliability and economy of the developed checklist. It also aimed to find out to what extent the users of the checklist were satisfied ...

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...

In a learning process of English, teaching materials are needed to support the such as textbooks. Therefore, this research analysed English speaking material in “Bahasa Inggris” textbook for twelfth grade Senior High School Published by Kemendikbud 2018. The problem study were: (1) What types there textbook?, and (2) How is content on grades published Indonesian government?. purposes To describ...

This article aims to analyse the task instruction of speaking tasks in an English student’s book for grade X that Balitbang Kemdikbud publishes. As first edition textbook, some inaccuracies might be found especially related instruction. is descriptive research with checklist evaluation as instrument research. The consists six sub-indicators. Four evaluators, teachers who use book, fulfilled eva...

This study aims to investigate (1) material completeness, includes a short interpersonal text, transactional text and functional (2) depth, the exposure, retention production, 3) life skill development, personal skills, social academic skills vocational skills. Within scope of current study, it was analyzed an English textbook used by tenth graders Vocational High School. The research method in...

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...

after the teacher, the most important factor in foreign language classroom is the textbook. it is vital that the best possible text be chosen for each situation. even with the development of new technologies that allow for higher quality teacher-generated materials, demand for textbooks continues to grow, and the publishing industry responds with new series and textbooks each year. therefore, i...

The present study investigated the potential role of tasks in engaging Iranian EFL learners in task-supported language learning, affecting on learner-centered instruction and the correspondence between the objectives and contents in current pre-university English course book (Learning to Read English for Pre-University Students). To do this, 100 Iranian EFL teachers of pre-university grade were...