Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series
With the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school (Prospect series). In so doing, an evaluation qu...
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| author | Ahmad Goodarzi Hiwa Weisi Nouroddin Yousofi |
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| description | With the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school (Prospect series). In so doing, an evaluation questionnaire was distributed among 27 female and 42 male junior high school teachers. Having collected the survey data, in order to obtain a richer understanding of teachers’ opinions, follow-up interviews were conducted with 11 teachers. The results indicate that although Prospect series can be considered a breakthrough in comparison to the previous English textbooks, they suffer from some critical shortcomings in terms of activities, methodology, topics, design, and insufficiency of teaching hours. Overall, the findings suggested that the textbooks fell short of Iranian teachers’ expectations and need critical improvements to reach their bests. Results of the present study have implications both for English material developers and curriculum planners. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8bb777f00cfc44e493ef5cadc88edd832023-09-02T19:43:39ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Education2331-186X2020-01-017110.1080/2331186X.2020.18409581840958Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect seriesAhmad Goodarzi0Hiwa Weisi1Nouroddin Yousofi2Razi UniversityRazi UniversityRazi UniversityWith the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school (Prospect series). In so doing, an evaluation questionnaire was distributed among 27 female and 42 male junior high school teachers. Having collected the survey data, in order to obtain a richer understanding of teachers’ opinions, follow-up interviews were conducted with 11 teachers. The results indicate that although Prospect series can be considered a breakthrough in comparison to the previous English textbooks, they suffer from some critical shortcomings in terms of activities, methodology, topics, design, and insufficiency of teaching hours. Overall, the findings suggested that the textbooks fell short of Iranian teachers’ expectations and need critical improvements to reach their bests. Results of the present study have implications both for English material developers and curriculum planners.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1840958prospect seriesteachers’ viewteaching englishtextbook evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Goodarzi Hiwa Weisi Nouroddin Yousofi Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series Cogent Education prospect series teachers’ view teaching english textbook evaluation |
| title | Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series |
| title_full | Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series |
| title_fullStr | Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series |
| title_short | Newly-published English course books under microscope: An exploration of teachers’ views about the Prospect series |
| title_sort | newly published english course books under microscope an exploration of teachers views about the prospect series |
| topic | prospect series teachers’ view teaching english textbook evaluation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1840958 |
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