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" Selection, Presentation, Practice, and Evaluation of Lexical Items in ELT Text Books: the Case of Top Notch Series "
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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155403
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5139p
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5139
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Mahdavi, Fahimeh
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Selection, Presentation, Practice, and Evaluation of Lexical Items in ELT Text Books: the Case of Top Notch Series
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; Mansour Koosha
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; Hamid Reza Haghverdi
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Khorasgan
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, 2013=1392
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M.A
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| field of study
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, Teaching english
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, Khorasgan
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, 1392/06/19, 1391/00/00
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xi , 119p.
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830
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| Abstract
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weighed its shortcomings. The results of this evaluation are beneficial to English teachers and material providers who are using or going to use the mentioned textbook in their classes and institutes and might give them insight into the course book they use and help them to consider how to exploit it. Keywords: Course book, Evaluation, Framework, Materials, Textbook Evaluation -depth analysis and that its pedagogic values and positive attributes far out-The roles of textbooks in language classrooms and language learning procedure cannot be ignored. But the important point here is that what textbook should be selected from among the vast number of available textbooks in the market. In order to evaluate ELT textbooks theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. In todays realm of language teaching and learning in order to choose fruitful materials for a course whether by a teacher or by administrator, evaluation is done. In this vein, this thesis was concerned with the carrying out an evaluation on a series of ELT materials, namely Top Notch is provided by Longman publications and written by Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher via Littlejohns framework (1998). This framework is claimed to be free of impressionistic ideas and tries to evaluate the materials as they really are what pedagogic values it has, whether it is in line with its claimed objectives, and what its merits and demerits are. Littlejohn believes that we should evaluate a textbook based on its own pedagogic values and we should see what is in it not what teachers and evaluators think must exist in it. Fifteen ELT teachers helped the researcher rate the evaluative checklists. The results of the study show that although a number of shortcomings and drawbacks were found in Top Notch as mentioned in chapter 5 of the thesis, the series under study showed to be reasonably well to a detailed and in.
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5139.pdf
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Selection, Presentation, Practice, and Evaluation of Lexical Items in ELT Text Books: the Case of Top Notch Series [Thesis]; Mansour Koosha; Hamid Reza Haghverdi
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Bibliography :p. 105-108
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