This study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used ELT textbooks, three British and three American. Applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (CDA), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. Results suggest that in terms of content, British textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

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...

Current textbooks are believed to provide an updated knowledge. Medical students usually read the textbooks but not the literature that contain the original research articles and reviews. Here, we examined the gap between the current textbooks and literature with the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells as an example. A total of 70 textbooks that were published for medical education during the las...

Content Analysis of the High School Textbooks in Iran from Information Literacy Perspective E. Ebraahimi Dorcheh M. Cheshmeh Sohraabi, Ph.D. M. R. Neyestaani, Ph.D. To determine the extent to which information literacy is utilized within the 10th grade textbooks across different disciplines, a sample of 19 textbooks from among 96 high school textbooks was selected. The instr...

the efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in l2 writing pedagogy (hyland, 2007). however, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for l2 writing in efl contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

Azer, Samy A. Do recommended textbooks contain adequate information about bile salt transporters for medical students? Adv Physiol Educ 28: 36–43, 2004; 10.1152/advan.00027.2003.— 10.1152/advan.00027.2003.—Several studies have recently highlighted a number of limitations in medical textbooks. The aims of this study were to 1) to assess whether available medical textbooks provided students with ...

INTRODUCTION Quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. The numbers of Iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of Iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic textbooks. METHODS AND MATERIALS Three known textbooks (Ingle's Endodontics, Seltzer and Be...

The present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. To this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused English and Persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedEnglish and Persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...