Abstract

Textbooks have always been regarded as the main sources of input for the learners in ELT context. To provide learners adequately with what they need to acquire, it is important to design the textbooks appropriately. That is why evaluating the textbooks in terms of their sufficient coverage of the intended materials gains much more importance. Also ELT coursebooks are regarded as the most important tool for teaching culture or pointing out important issues. Ecocriticism is a term studying the relationship between the literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view with various sciences such as philosophy, sociology, psychology together to search for the environment and find out the best solutions for world. In an age where environmental destruction and crisis occurred due to the humanity’s disconnection from natural world and as a result, they failed to understand the interconnection of all the things on earth. Many scholars have done studies to influence the society’s perception about their connection with the outer world and they aimed to attract the humans’ attention on this issue. As a result, ecocriticism emerged for enlightening the people’s perception about their interconnectedness with their physical world. This study aims to investigate ecocritism in EFL textbook at pre-intermediate level to get deeper insight about how learners’ perception is affected by the text in terms of environmental awareness.

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