ELT Materials Evaluation: The Case of Mosaic Series Middle East gold edition

In order to evaluate ELT textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. This study evaluated a series of ELT textbook, namely, Mosaic series Middle East gold edition using Littlejohn’s (2011) evaluative framework to see what the explicit features of the book are, what pedagogic values this series has, and what its merits and demerits are. Littlejohn believes that we should evaluate a textbook based on its own pedagogic values and we should see what is in it not what teachers and evaluators think must exist in it. Consequently his framework is claimed to be devoid of any impressionistic ideas and it is in-depth and objective rather than subjective. In the present study five ELT experts and five ELT teachers helped the researcher to evaluate the book through rating the evaluative checklists. The results of the study showed that although a number of shortcomings and drawbacks were found in Mosaic series Middle East gold edition, it stood up reasonably well to a detailed and in-depth analysis and that its pedagogic values and positive attributes far out-weighed its shortcomings.

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ELT Materials Evaluation , Mosaic , Middle East , gold edition