An Evaluation of Grammar and Vocabulary Consciousness-Raising Activities in Current ELT Materials

The present study evaluated five current international ELT series regarding inclusion of grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities. Drawing upon Willis and Willis (۱۹۹۶) and Graves and Taffe (۲۰۰۷), a Likert-scale questionnaire was developed and validated which was completed by ۹۰ Iranian EFL teachers and ۱۷۰ Iranian EFL students, forty of whom (۲۰ teachers and ۲۰ students) also sat an interview. The results of inferential statistics (i.e. Independent Samples t-test and Chi-square analysis) revealed there was no significant difference between the responses of the teachers and students in this respect. That is, the results of the questionnaire combined with content analysis of the interviews and subjective evaluation of the researchers indicated although the ELT series incorporated different kinds of grammar and vocabulary activities, they did not include some of the major grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities (e.g., making generalizations, cross-referencing, reconstructing, discussing word choices, researching about vocabularies, etc.).

Keywords:

Grammar and vocabulary consciousness raising activities , current international ELT series , materials evaluation