EGAP Textbooks Potentiality in Pandemic Era: Do the Existing Textbooks Have the Capacity to be Used in Online Classes?

سال انتشار: 1400
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
مشاهده: 225

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MTELT01_046

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 22 آذر 1400

چکیده مقاله:

English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) is known as an admitted field of inquiry in the realm of applied linguistics which due to its utmost role in learners’ future life, turned into a mandatory course for all university students in Iran. Following the Covid-۱۹ outbreak and university closure in Iran, online classes resumed and EGAP courses were among those courses which most of the freshman students dealt with. By investigating ۱۰ unexplored EGAP textbooks recently published by Iranian scholars, the present study aimed to probe whether they have the potentiality to be used in online classrooms or not? To this end, researchers analyzed the selected materials along with their supplementary materials based on a researcher-made checklist, separately. The findings of this study regarding skills, activities, and tasks of selected materials revealed that although most of the agreed-upon goals for the EGAP course, such as the focus on reading comprehension skill and vocabulary and grammar sub-skills, were accomplished, they were not proper for maintaining in online classes which require more interaction on the side of learners. Concerning the layout and design of the materials, it was also found that nearly half of the materials benefit from poor quality black and white printing with inappropriate pictures that could not bring joy and charm into foreign language classrooms and lead them to boredom. Two textbooks also take advantage of theoretical and pedagogical defendable underpinnings with more advanced supplementary materials such as Teacher’s guide, Audio-Visual DVD, and educational websites with online teaching resources. These findings carry some implications for policymakers, material developers, educators, and also students.

کلیدواژه ها:

English for General Academic Purposes ، Textbook Analysis ، Material Evaluation ، Online Education

نویسندگان

Alireza Safaei

University of Guilan

Mahshid Rajabian

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University