Sheikhbahaee University Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies 2645-3592 2 2 2013 08 01 A Checklist-Based Evaluative and Comparative Study of ESP Books: The Case of Mechanical Engineering A Checklist-Based Evaluative and Comparative Study of ESP Books: The Case of Mechanical Engineering 50 69 79201 10.22034/efl.2013.79201 EN Hadi Yaghoubi Nezhad Kharazmi University, Tehran Isa Atarodi Kharazmi University, Tehran Maryam Khalili Kharazmi University, Tehran Journal Article 2018 11 24 Textbook evaluation serves as a useful tool at teachers‘ disposal to cope with uncertainty in opting for the proper material prior to embarking on their teaching career. This study aims at comparing two different ESP textbooks, one of them English for students of Mechanical Engineering, design of solids (SAMT publication), and the other one English in Mechanical Engineering (Oxford University Press). For the purpose of comparison and contrast, Textbook Evaluation Checklist (Miekley, 2005) was used against which the components of these two books were weighed to show what they have in common and where the point of departure from any commonality is. Although based on evaluative questions some inherent inefficiencies of these textbooks were revealed, it was generally concluded that both of them have tenable justification to be taught as an ESP course book. https://efl.shbu.ac.ir/article_79201_8bd70f89957cb4e5048bdcf1083c4cf9.pdf