English Text Book Evaluation: Iranian High School Teachers’ Perspectives about Vision 2

The current study aimed at investigating Iranian high school teachers’ perspectives on the book Vision 2, which is used as an English textbook for eleventh grad high school students. To reach the purposes, 150 Iranian high school teachers both male and female from different provinces were selected as a main sample size of the study through available sampling. In order to collect the data, a pre designed and developed textbook evaluation questionnaire by Litz (2000) was used as an instrument of the study. After collecting data, descriptive statistics were run to interpret the data. The findings revealed Iranian high school teachers’ idea about the text book in terms of layout and design, practical considerations, skills, language type, activities, subject and content and overall consensus. Results also indicated that the textbook suffers from a number of shortcomings that require teachers’ awareness and consideration. The finding of this study maybe beneficial for English language teacher, policy makers and EFL student.