Towards Evaluating International and Local EFL Workbook Activities: The case of forms and functions

English language teaching market (ELT) inundated with course book packages containing a student’s book, a teacher’s guide, workbooks, CD’s, videos, and test materials. A host of researchers have focused on course book evaluation and analysis and considered the selection and evaluation of materials as an essential procedure in order to enhance out comes for the learners who use them. This study thrusts to analyze different types of activities included in the elementary and pre-intermediate work books of six widely-used international course books and newly developed national course book, vision series, in Iran. In international workbooks there was a shift from elementary to intermediate level leading to developing learners’ proficiency. However, this study showed no dynamic patterns of activities in the vision workbook within the four activities and three functions. Suggesting that learners are at elementary level of developing their linguistic competence within workbook milieu and this lack of harmony can have a bad effect on their language proficiency growth.