AN EVALUATION OF THE IRANIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS, "ENGLISH TIME BOOKS" AND "HIP-HIP HOORAY" BOOKS BASED ON MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY

Although most English teachers try to consider their student's expectations in designing the structural syllabus, finally it is the textbook that defines the frameworks and in some cases the curriculum of institutes and English teaching classes. In this study popular textbooks in Junior high school and English teaching Institutes are evaluated from MI perspective. The researchers in the present study tried to analyze some English textbooks and identified how much each textbook considers different kinds of intelligences. On the other hand, by knowing the strengths and weaknesses of currently used books, teachers can use the complementary materials or teaching skills .When the potential of the books is evaluated from the perspective of MI, the advantages and shortcomings of the books are identified. Altogether there are some positive points in each of these books .So authors should have these points in mind that they can design some new versions of the books in which they have used the advantages of mentioned books .In this way ,they can increase MI variety as much as possible.