EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK SOLUTIONS PRE-INTERMEDIATE: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The Solutions series is one popular English textbook series and has been used in
English as a foreign language (EFL) courses at higher education institutions in Vietnam.
However, there is limited evidence of whether the Solutions textbooks are suitable and
effective, and no prior studies have evaluated the textbooks from student perspectives. This
study, therefore, investigated students’ evaluation of Solutions Pre-intermediate, one
textbook belonging to the Solutions series. 256 non-English majors at a public university in
Vietnam participated in the study and completed an online 29-item questionnaire which
examined their perceptions of the organization, activities, linguistic aspects, and subject and
content and their overall evaluation of the textbook. The results showed that overall,
students had a high opinion of the textbook and chose to use it again for learning English.
These suggest that Solutions Pre-intermediate appears to meet tertiary level EFL students’
language learning needs and objectives.