Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies

A Checklist-Based Evaluative and Comparative Study of ESP Books: The Case of Mechanical Engineering

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Kharazmi University, Tehran

Abstract

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.

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Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies
Volume 2, Issue 2
August 2013
Pages 50-69
  • Receive Date: 24 November 2018
  • Accept Date: 24 November 2018