خلاصة:
EAP textbooks have been one of the most important materials commonly used in
any EAP program and attracted many researchers' attention due to their crucial
contributions to foreign/second language acquisition. Despite the plethora of
research on EAP textbooks, especially EAP textbooks published by SAMT, the
Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the
Humanities, there seems to be a paucity of research on newly developed SAMT
EAP textbooks. At the same time, although EAP textbooks are based on criteria to
meet particular students’ needs in specific disciplines, there have been only a few
evaluative studies on EAP textbooks taking students’ and teachers’ viewpoints
into account. Therefore, the present study attempted to evaluate a newly
developed SAMT EAP textbook for the students of Medicine, as a sample from
SAMT publications, from the students' and teachers' perspectives. The study used
a questionnaire and the results revealed that students and teachers were satisfied
with the theoretical considerations, the organizational features and practical
considerations, the vocabulary, and the grammatical structure of the current
textbook. However, the students were not satisfied with the content and the
language skills and the teachers were not satisfied with the content of the
textbook. In addition, no significant difference between the students' and teachers'
viewpoints with regard to the necessity condition of EAP textbooks was found.
However, their responses to the questions related to the present condition of the
current textbook were significantly different. Such findings can have some
implications for EAP teachers, material developers, and textbook designers
ملخص الجهاز:
It attempts to evaluate a newly developed SAMT EAP textbook for the students of Medicine, as a sample from the EAP textbooks published by SAMT publications and commonly used in EAP courses in many Iranian universities, to see whether it can meet Medical students’ needs on the basis of both students’ and teachers’ opinions.
The results of analysis indicated that from the both teachers’ and students’ viewpoints, Medical Terminology was significantly better than the EAP textbook published by SAMT with respect to the categories of layout and design, activities, language type, subject and content.
According to the students' and teachers' viewpoints, is the newly developed SAMT EAP textbook for the students of Medicine, as a sample from SAMT publications, appropriate with respect to the theoretical considerations, the organizational features and practical considerations, the content, the language skills, the vocabulary and the grammatical structure?
Data Collection Methods The textbook under evaluation is entitled "English for the Students of Medicine" written by Atai, Shoja, Kafshgarsouteh, and Zolghadri and published by the Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the Humanities (SAMT) in 2013.
The questionnaire includes some general overview of physical aspects of the material such as the organizational features and practical considerations with respect to cover, size, or durability of the book which corresponds to the "publication" in Littlejohn's (1998) model while the other part relates to the thinking underlying the materials such as the theoretical considerations focusing on the methodological objectives of the textbook or the sequencing of the selected subjects, types of learning and teaching activities with respect to content, skills, vocabulary, and structure of the book which corresponds to the "design" in Littlejohn's (1998) model (Razmjoo & Raisi, 2010).