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The Iranian EFL Journal December 2014 Volume 10 Issue 6
Title
Iranian EFL Teachers’ and Students’ Textbook Evaluation
Authors
Kourosh Akef
Zainab Moosavi
Abstract
This study is an attempt to evaluate the suitability and effectiveness of the EFL textbook
series ‘Passages Second Edition’, taught at EFL institutes in Iran. To this end, two
textbook evaluation checklists, modified version of Alamri’s (2008), were submitted to
10 EFL teachers and 30 advanced learners in Mashhad to collect feedback on the content
of the newly-written series. The researcher used three different types of computations to
analyze the data statistically: a per- statement analysis, a per-category analysis, and a
Mann-Whitney U test. The qualitative data obtained were analyzed for frequencies,
percentages, means and standard deviations. The research findings demonstrated that
both the teachers and the students were generally satisfied with the series, except for its
design and illustration and some other sub-items. The results also revealed that the
students and the teachers shared the same ideas about most areas and criteria related to
the textbooks. Hopefully, the findings provide feedback for textbook developers,
decision and policy makers about the textbooks and how they can be developed and
modified.
Keywords: EFL, Textbook series, Evaluation, Checklists, Design and illustration
