Zahra Hashempour - Department of English Language, Genaveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Genaveh, Iran
Samira Baghaei - Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the representation of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation as a language sub skills in the old (Right Path to English) and new (Prospect) junior high school book series based on the teachers’ attitudes. To this end, 50 Iranian EFL school teachers (24 males and 26 females) from two provinces (Fras and Bushehr) were selected through convenience sampling. The researchers used a modified version of a book evaluation checklist developed by Abdel Wahab (2013) and a set of semi-structured interviews as the instruments of the study. The descriptive statistics and the paired samples t-test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the participants held significantly more favorable attitudes towards the representation of vocabulary and pronunciation in the new series compared with the old series. Furthermore, based on the teachers’ attitudes, there was not any significant difference between the representations of grammar in the new series compared to the old ones. The results of the interviews also supported the quantitative findings.

Prospect; Right Path to English; sub skills; Teacher’s attitudes; Textbook Evaluation