Abstract
Textbook evaluation is determining the productivity and value of textbooks with respect to stated objectives, standards, or criteria. This study was an attempt to evaluate the ESP medical textbook, which is taught at some universities in Iran. To gather the necessary data, two researcher-made questionnaires and one interview protocol were used. Iranian Medical instructors and learners answered to a 28-item questionnaire to express their attitudes towards the content, exercises, and topics of their ESP course book. In addition, some members of both groups participated in an interview to gain in depth information about the study. They were both male and female. The findings revealed that the content and the topics of the ESP medical textbook are based on the learners and instructors’ needs. The results of this study have a number of implications for medical instructors, learners, and syllabus designers.
Highlights
English is an international language and its importance causes people to use it around of the world
The findings revealed that the content and the topics of the English for specific purposes (ESP) medical textbook are based on the learners and instructors’ needs
This study sought to answer the following research questions: 1) Is the ESP course book content, topics and exercises based on the Iranians medical instructors and learners’ needs?
Summary
English is an international language and its importance causes people to use it around of the world. The main definition of this word is to teach some of the specific English vocabularies that are related specially to the learners with specific aims, fields of study, or occupation, such as medicine, engineering, etc. We can define this word, ESP, from different aspects, but all of these definitions show that how ESP course is designed to teach its specific learner to learn English. Based on the Conference, which is hold in Japan about English for Specific Purpose in 1997, ESP considered as a course of study that English is taught for any aims that can be specified for special needs.
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