An evaluation of a sample of ESP textbooks for humanities published by the organization for researching and composing university books in the humanities (SAMT)

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Published: Nov 14, 2015
Updated: 2015-11-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i1.12
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ESP Textbook, Curriculum Design, Textbook Evaluation, SAMT

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Nahid Rahimi Alagha
Rahman Sahragard
Jalal Rahimian

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This study intends to evaluate a sample of ESP textbook materials published by SAMT Organization to be used at university level. The required data was gathered through seeking 30 ESP instructors' and 30 ESP students’ views. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a significant difference between the ideal situation and the present condition of the evaluated textbooks. Also there is not any significant difference between the students' and the instructors' views regarding various aspects of these textbooks. Their overall view is that the textbooks stand somewhere between poor and adequate indexes which is not desirable at all.

  Keywords: ESP Textbook, Curriculum Design, Textbook Evaluation, SAMT

 

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Rahimi Alagha, N., Sahragard, R., & Rahimian, J. (2015). An evaluation of a sample of ESP textbooks for humanities published by the organization for researching and composing university books in the humanities (SAMT). Contemporary Educational Researches Journal, 5(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i1.12
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