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Publication details [#65472]

Aliakbari, Mohammad and Hassan Tarlani-Aliabadi. 2018. Categorization of writing tasks in Iranian senior high school English textbooks. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 28 (1) : 119–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

high school | second language acquisition | task-dependency of processing | textbook | writing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Employing Littlejohn's (2011) task assay sheet, this inquiry explored writing tasks in Iranian ELT textbooks evolved by Iran's Ministry of Education since 1979 to discern whether their basic sides echoed universal second language acquisition (SLA) maxims.