Evaluating Iranian Secondary English Textbooks Based On CLT Criteria

چکیده مقاله

Current research in EFL was an attampt to show what extent the present English text books in the high school level match with the CLT principles, and, what the teachers’ views are about the course books and actual presentation of the materials in the class rooms. To conduct the study, a sample of 50 female teachers teaching English at the secondary school level, especially those who were teaching at the 7th grade of the secondary education were selected. They were selected from among the teachers teaching in various districts of Tehran city. The teachers were selected based on their years of educational experience as well as their background in teaching the course books to the 7th grade learners. Their willingness to participate in the study was also another criterion.
To have an insight about the effectiveness and desirability of the course-book a questionnaire was developed and their ideas were gathered. To prepare the questionnaire an interview with some 10 teachers and 20 students dealing with the English course book taught in the grade 7 at the high schools was conducted. Finally, the analyses of the data indicated that the claim of the textbook series recently developed under the title of CLT in the Iranian context highly matches the criteria of CLT .

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