Ali Soraghi - M.A. in TEFL form Rasht Payame Noor University, Guilan, Iran. He has been teaching English language for about ۱۲ years, and is presently teaching English at different high schools and language institutes. His research interests include methodology, lingui

This study investigates what features of naturalness of a conversation in an EFLtextbook are. After a thorough review of related literature, a model of naturalness wasadopted on the basis of the features of spoken language. There are six main features ofspoken language in the model: contextualizability, communicativeness, appropriateness,unfolding, text potential, and features of authentic speech. This study highlights theimportance of including natural language in conversations of EFL textbooks and makessome pedagogical suggestions about how this can be done.

naturalness, conversation, features, EFL textbooks