American English File Book Evaluation

Zohreh Zare Toofal, Atefeh Nasrollahi

Abstract


There are many English books to teach in many different institutes in Iran, American English file books are widely used in very famous and high quality of teaching English institutes in Iran. We are going to pack the ideas of at least 120 EFL teachers, advanced learners, theorists, psychologists, practitioners, and course designer in this field by giving them a checklist and a Likert scale of advantages or disadvantages from the strongest points of view toward the weakest of this book and we gather all their information then analyze their points in Likert scale to discuss the positive and negative points of all series of American English file book. We also compare the content of this book which is mostly used in Iranian language institutes with national Iranian schools that are equally used English language national books in Iran.


Keywords


American English file, evaluation, content, culture

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