An Evaluation of the English Textbooks: Perspectives from High School Teachers in Thai Nguyen City

This paper presents a study on investigating high school teachers’ perspectives on the English textbooks implemented in Thai Nguyen city. In investigating, a questionnaire was used to collect data and then the data was analyzed through the descriptive statistical procedures of SPSS Version 20. The findings reveal high school teachers’ evaluation of the English textbooks in terms of price and availability, extra materials, layout and design, instruction, methodology, language areas, language skills and topics. Although the English textbooks are appropriate for their students, it is desirable that publishers and teachers should make some changes in the English textbooks to enhance teaching and learning.