Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Amin Nazari ¹
• yusuf nazari ²

¹ University of isfahan

² Assistant Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Iran

Abstract

The textbook is considered as a main reference to enrich the student’s knowledge and experience and provide required materials for the teacher. Therefore, textbook evaluation is considered important, given the possibility of revising and developing education through textbooks. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tenth grade Arabic textbook in the field of literature and humanities based on the evaluation indices of the educational textbook. The data collection tool is Leitz inventory containing six criteria and thirty-four items. The research method is descriptive-survey and the research participants were 54 male and female teachers in Isfahan. The research findings indicated that the book had an acceptable level of quality (3.87); the activities and exercises obtained the highest rank among other subcategories; Vocabulary criteria, text and conversation comprehension, goals, content, obtained the subsequent ranks. According to the teachers, the book has not been successful in terms of grammar rules (3.09); Incomplete presentation of most of the rules based on traditional deductive method and minimizing the role of grammar in extending learners’ vocabulary knowledge were two remarkable flaws in textbooks. 

Keywords

• Evaluation
• textbook
• Arabic book
• indices of the textbook. Litze’s checklist