A New Perspective on English Coursebooks: High School Students' Evaluations in the Turkish Context

The fundamental aim of this study is to demonstrate a group of high school students’ point of view from different grades with regards to English textbooks prepared by Ministry of National Education by means of different data collection tools. The study was conducted with converged design which belongs to mixed method research. while a four-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (4) was applied for the quantitative part, the qualitative phase was implemented with semi-structured interview questions. Topic variety was found moderately suitable. In addition, cultural representations were evaluated as restricted mainly on British and American culture. Language skills development was viewed as average, with reading and listening receiving relatively higher scores. Grammar explanation lacked clarity and vocabulary teaching methods were considered moderately effective. These findings suggest that coursebook developers should enhance content engagement, cultural inclusivity and interactive activity design to better address students’ learning needs. Furthermore, the results of the study indicated students’ can also evaluate and make judgements about their English coursebooks.