| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 應用外語研究所 === 97 === After practicing the policy of releasing the right of textbook publishing to public in 1994, various types of textbooks have filled the market in Taiwan’s formal education. A good English textbook can facilitate students’ learning as well teachers’ instruction. Regulating the quality of the textbooks is an important task for the government, and thus standardized guidelines have been passed down from the authority. With the change of the trend, the existing English textbook evaluation criteria proposed by the government a decade ago may have grown out of fashion. Thus, this research examined the official criteria on the basis of various studies of textbook evaluation criteria, the features of the Taiwanese context, and the empirical data from questionnaires and interviews with the users (i.e. students). This study took two famous books in textbook evaluation, which are Cunningsworth (1995) and Skireso (1991) as reference to identify the significant factors in textbook evaluation. This study also compared the Taiwanese learning context to select the suitable factors that can apply for the textbook evaluation of Taiwan. The empirical data from the users provided important reference for checking the actual situation of textbooks in Taiwan. The empirical data were obtained from questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire data were analyzed by SPSS tool and the interview procedure was recorded by tapes and analyzed thematically. This research hopes that through the study of three perspectives, it can produce suitable and effective textbook evaluation criteria which can ensure and promote the qualities of English textbooks in Taiwan.
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