The Evaluation of ESP Textbook for the Students of Water and Wastewater Engineering & Civil Engineering: Management Based Education

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Parvin  Rezai ¹ (دانش آموخته کارشناسی ارشد)
akram  Hashemi ² (عضو هیات علمی)

Received: 2018-03-01 Accepted : 2017-04-15 Published : 2017-03-21

Keywords: evaluation, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Textbook, Management Based Education,

Abstract :

 The present study is an attempt to evaluate the ESP book; English for the Students of Civil Engineering with the Management Based Education, is a textbook of SAMT publisher. One hundred university students in Shahid Abbas Pour University as well as 30 teachers who had this book as their course book participated in this study, the collected data were analyzed applying SPSS version 21. The result through descriptive and inferential statistics showed that there was an overall satisfaction among the participants from the course book regarding the criteria. However some weak points, namely, poor quality of printing, wide range of points, inadequacy of exercises, examples, and variability, unattractiveness, repetitiveness, and monotonous nature of the book, were pointed by students. The teachers also pointed the poor quality of the book as its weak point and were concerned that materials are not cultural-wise. Finally some recommendations were proposed to improve the book.

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