ERIC Number: EJ1128312
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Publication Date: 2014-Dec
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Iranian Language Teachers' and Students' Perspectives on Top Notch Series (2nd Edition) at Intermediate Level
Azadsarv, Mehdi; Tahriri, Abdorreza
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, v5 n6 p84-104 Dec 2014
As the means of transferring knowledge between teachers and students, coursebooks play a significant role in educational practices all over the world. Evaluation of coursebooks is also of great significance as it manages to a better understanding of the nature of a specific teaching/learning situation. The present study is an attempt to evaluate Top Notch coursebook from both Iranian EFL learners' and teachers' perspectives. One hundred students and 20 teachers participated in this study. Sixty four of the students and nine of the teachers were male and 36 of the students and 11 of the teachers were female. The range of teachers' experience of teaching the coursebook was between 2-4 years and the range of students' experience of studying the coursebook was between 1-3 years. The data collection took place in three language institutes of Gilan and Mazandaran provinces. The coursebook, evaluated based on modified version of Cunningsworth's (1995) checklist, was the intermediate level of Top Notch. It was evaluated by both students and teachers based on administering written questionnaires. In order to triangulate the gathered data, 25 percent of the teachers and 10 percent of the students attended an interview session. Data analysis indicated that strengths of Top Notch from teachers' perspective are grammar, visuals, supplementary materials and culture and from students' point of view are content, grammar, phonology and visuals.
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Check Lists, Student Attitudes, Textbook Evaluation, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Grammar, Phonology, Statistical Analysis
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