期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：95
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Textbooks play a pivotal role in language classrooms and educationalsystems all over the world. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate andcompare two English textbooks, Interchange 1 (Richards et al., 2005) and EnglishBook 1 of Iranian high schools (Birjandy et al., 2011) in order to illustrate theirprobable similarities and differences in terms of content, vocabulary, grammar,reading exercises and activities, pronunciation practice, physical makeup, andlanguage functions. For this purpose, the weaknesses and strengths of these Englishtextbooks are explained using eight criteria which have been drawn from variouschecklists. Since these two English textbooks are compared and contrasted accordingto these specific criteria, data collection are exploratory involving qualitative datawhich were analyzed interpretively. Although each one of these books has its ownmerits and demerits, overall the findings revealed that English book 1, in comparisonwith Interchange 1, is more grammar-based and does not satisfy Iranian students’needs in the real world, moreover it is not compatible with the principles ofcommunicative language teaching. It is argued that the writers of this book had bettermodify it by employing more communicative tasks to satisfy Iranian students’ needsand wants.
