Evaluating Speech acts in ELT Textbooks: The Case of Compliments and Complaints in the Touchstone Series

Textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. The present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the Touchstone series in terms of compliment and complain...

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Main Authors: Mahdieh Jalilian, Ali Roohani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch 2016-07-01
Series:Research in English Language Pedagogy
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Online Access:http://relp.khuisf.ac.ir/article_533641_47d4f78613081007dce9bc88ab28a6b3.pdf