Abstract
Evaluation is basically a matching process, which concerns matching learners’ needs to available solutions. Through analysis and assessment of ESP textbooks, a much more promising and desirable approach to a theory of ESP takes place. To this aim, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the ESP medical textbook. To gather the necessary data, two researcher-made questionnaires and one interview protocol were used. Medical instructors and learners answered to a 30-item questionnaire to express their attitudes towards different aspects of their ESP textbook. Besides, some members of both groups participated in the interviews to gain in depth information about the study. They were both male and female. The findings revealed that instructors and learners had positive attitudes towards the content part of their ESP textbook. In addition, the findings revealed that there is a significant difference between the instructors’ and learners’ attitudes concerning the ESP textbook. 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 first research question of this study proposed that Iranian medical instructors and learners have positive attitude toward the content of their ESP course book
The results of the present study offered that both instructors and learners have positive attitude towards the content of their ESP textbook
Summary
English is an international language and its importance causes people to use it around of the world. Based on Dudley-Evans (1998) ESP is an approach to language teaching placed in a meaningful situation. According to Hutchinson and Waters (1987), ESP is an approach in language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method is made on the learners’ reasons to learning language. Based on Dudley-Evans and St. John (1998), in which English consider as a foreign language not a second language, the main and the only source of English is ESP classroom. In ESP course, materials play an important role in confronting learners with language. Iran, the main source for the learners to gain input is their textbooks and language practices of the classroom. Textbooks are the determiners of the content and nature of the procedure of learning and teaching of the course. According to Riazi (2003), in a second or foreign language context, after teachers, textbook is the prominent factor
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