This article reports the evaluation of three EFL textbooks which are used in Afghan lower secondary schools by employing a document analysis approach. Two evaluators took part in the study, where they independently evaluated the textbooks of grades 7-9. This study employed a 33-item checklist designed by the researchers, adopting or modifying…

This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…

English-Medium Instruction (EMI) practices in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are still emerging and in need of further empirical investigation, in comparison to European countries. Existing research in the Asian context is mainly based on students' and teachers' perceptions and policy-related concerns. There is a remarkable lack of studies…