A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NEW AND THE OLD SERIES OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IRAN

This study is a survey to compare the evaluation of two secondary school textbook series: the old series (Right path to English) and the recently compiled series (Prospect1). To this end, 105 students in Kazerun including 67 students of high schools (former learners of old series) and 38 students of secondary schools (present learners of new series) and also 15 English teachers of both levels and 11 university EFL learners were randomly recruited. A translated version of the questionnaire designed by Alamri (2008) was used as the instrument of data collection. This questionnaire included the following categories: general appearance, design and illustration, accompanying materials, objectives, topic contents, language contents, social and cultural contexts, language skills, teach ability, flexibility, teaching methods, practice and testing; some of which were marked as only for teachers. The results of data analysis revealed that according to teachers’ points of view, there were significant differences between old and new series of textbooks. That is, the new series were evaluated as more preferable than the old ones in all provided categories while the students held an opposite idea. They evaluate their old textbook series better than the new series.

A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NEW AND THE OLD SERIES OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IRAN Keywords:

Textbook , Evaluation , High school , Secondary schools , Prospect , Right path to English