Textbook Analysis: Comparing the Recent and the Old First Grade High School English Textbooks, Teachers and Learners’ Perspective in Focus

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Nazila Mirzaei ¹ , Omid Tabatabaei ²

1 - Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2015-10-31 Accepted : 2015-12-14 Published : 2015-12-14

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