چکیده مقاله
Word selection plays an important role in developing a textbook and the most important criterion for the selection of vocabulary items has to be its usefulness for the learners' needs So, this study intended to investigate the authenticity of words in Prospect Series, the newly developed junior high school English textbooks in Iran It tried to find out to what extent the words used in this series are authentic, i e, useful and applicable, based on English dictionaries and teachers’ attitudes For this purpose, this study began with extracting words used in Prospect series and comparing them to the 1000 most frequent words of English from Longman Dictionary The researcher then compared these two sets of words to find out how consistent they are The findings showed that less than 50% of the around 850 words included in the Prospect were among the 1000 most frequent wordlist of the Longman dictionary and as a result To verify the results gained through this method, a checklist of thirty words from Prospect was prepared and 30 teachers were asked to evaluate their usefulness This also showed that teachers, in general, found the words to be somewhere between “relatively useful” and “useful”
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نویسندگان
Arefeh Yousefi
Ph D candidate, Polytechnic University, Valencia, Spain
Hassan Bashirnezhad
Assistant Professor, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Yousefi, Arefeh and Bashirnezhad, Hassan,1402,On the Authenticity of words in Iranian EFL Textbooks (Prospect Series),18th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies
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مجموعه مقالات هجدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی مطالعات زبان، ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ25 اسفند 1402