A Contrastive Study of Cohesive Devices Used in Pre-university and Headway Textbooks

Abstract

This study compares and contrasts the frequency of the use of cohesive devices in Iranian pre-university EFL textbook and in the headway as an EFL institute textbook for this purpose. The reading sections of Iranian pre-university EFL and headway textbooks were analyzed in terms of the distribution of grammatical and lexical devices. The results of one-way ANOVA illustrated that there were significant differences among the frequencies of grammatical cohesive sub- devices across Iranian pre-university and headway textbooks. Moreover, the result of chi-square test indicated that there were significant differences among the frequencies of lexical cohesion sub-devices across Iranian pre-university EFL and headway textbooks. These findings can be beneficial for textbook writers, material developers and EFL teachers.