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Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives

Textbooks are one of the important teaching materials in language teaching and a common resource for any teacher in helping students to learn English. Apart from being a learning tool, textbooks are considered as an important medium to realize curriculum goals and objectives. The purpose of this stu...

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Main Authors: Mahmoudi, Leila, Abu Bakar, Kamariah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australian International Academic Centre 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14963/1/14963.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14963/
http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJELS/article/view/404
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spelling my.upm.eprints.149632019-05-08T07:44:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14963/ Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives Mahmoudi, Leila Abu Bakar, Kamariah Textbooks are one of the important teaching materials in language teaching and a common resource for any teacher in helping students to learn English. Apart from being a learning tool, textbooks are considered as an important medium to realize curriculum goals and objectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of compatibility of the pre-university English textbook, which is prescribed by the ministry of education, with Iranian National Curriculum (INC) in terms of objectives and content of teaching. To this end, two instruments were used: A textbook evaluation checklist proposed by Ghorbani (2011), and the Iranian National Curriculum. The findings of the study revealed that the textbook was not in line with the curriculum in terms of objectives and content of teaching. Australian International Academic Centre 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14963/1/14963.pdf Mahmoudi, Leila and Abu Bakar, Kamariah (2014) Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives. International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2 (2). pp. 4-8. ISSN 2202-9478 http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJELS/article/view/404 10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.2n.2p.4
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description Textbooks are one of the important teaching materials in language teaching and a common resource for any teacher in helping students to learn English. Apart from being a learning tool, textbooks are considered as an important medium to realize curriculum goals and objectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of compatibility of the pre-university English textbook, which is prescribed by the ministry of education, with Iranian National Curriculum (INC) in terms of objectives and content of teaching. To this end, two instruments were used: A textbook evaluation checklist proposed by Ghorbani (2011), and the Iranian National Curriculum. The findings of the study revealed that the textbook was not in line with the curriculum in terms of objectives and content of teaching.
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Abu Bakar, Kamariah
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Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
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Abu Bakar, Kamariah
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title Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
title_short Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
title_full Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
title_fullStr Iranian National Curriculum and the pre-university English textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
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title_sort iranian national curriculum and the pre-university english textbook: the degree of compatibility of objectives
publisher Australian International Academic Centre
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14963/1/14963.pdf
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