On the Evaluation of Lexical Profiles in the Iranian High School and University EFL Text books

This research tried to investigate the vocabulary profiles in iranian high schools and university textbooks. in order to do so, all the four iranian high school textbooks which are in the form of a series called the right path to english were scanned onto a computer to form a data file composed ofall the vocabulary items existing in the books. the data file was called corpus. after that, the most frequent textbooks offered in iranian universities as pre-university courses-given to students who ranked below 33% in the university entrance examination followed by general service english courses which were two of the most frequently used books namely reading for general english and concepts and comments were selected and scanned onto a computer, the latter data file was compared against the corpus through range software to seek the probable existence of a meaningful gap in the number ofvocabulary items between the textbooks in high schools and universities in iran. the obtained results proved the existence ofsuch a gap which means the english words that students are exposed to during high school are not recycled in their english textbooks of university; therefore they face lots ofproblems in using these texts.