Evaluation of New Junior High School English Text Book (Prospect 1) For Rural Learners: Teachers’ Perspective

Textbooks have a chief standing as an essential element of language teaching. Textbook evaluation is an applied linguistic activity through which teachers, supervisors, administrators, and materials developers can make judgments about the effectiveness of the materials. The present paper aimed to evaluate the teachers’ perspectives toward newly developed textbooks for grade seven Junior high school rural students. The participants- included 44 English teachers (25 males and 19 females) with 5 to 27 seven years of teaching experience from Kohgilooyeh –and – Boyer- Ahmad province- were asked to evaluate prospect 1 0n the basis of the provided checklist which was based on Likert scale and derived from previously used checklists. The results depicted that reading, writing, and supplementary materials are the aspects of the textbook that are in real need of more improvement and revision. And listening skill was viewed as the most satisfactory dimension of the evaluated textbook (prospect 1). The findings of the present study may contain some implications that could help material developers and writers, to edit, revise, and improve the textbook, and also it can help the teachers to better teach and evaluate their students’ textbooks.