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After obtaining the deans allowance for performing the research attheir universities, I attended the first session of ESP course at QazvinUniversity. At the second session of the ESP the students were informed aboutthe purpose of the research. that they were going to be a part of researchprocess. They were informed that the research intended to evaluate their ESPtextbook by means of their instructors' and more importantly their ownviews. They were also informed that participation was totally voluntary.Before distributing the questionnaire I distributed the tailored TOEFL testspapers. The purpose of administering it was to determine the overall languageproficiency of the students. The results of the test showed that almost allof the students had gained more than the mean score. After having answeredthe test, learners were provided with the first questionnaire. Thequestionnaire had been designed to survey their expiations from the ESPcourse they were about to begin. It was designed by the researcher based onthe reviewed literature and related questionnaires designed by other writes.It was a two-section questionnaire; section one was designed specifically toprobe students' opinions regarding the language skills that they foundmost/least important in ESP and expected them to be improved in the ESPcourse. They rated the four language skills of listening, speaking, readingand writing in their questionnaire as "Highly needed", "Verymuch needed" and "Only of limited use".

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When they had finished with the questionnaire that was almostidentical with the initial expectation questionnaire, they were given thetextbook evaluation questionnaire. It probed students' opinionsregarding the following seven components: Vocabulary, reading, grammar,language functions, pronunciation practice, physical make-up and practicalconcerns. The same procedures which were followed for collecting data fromQazvin medical students were followed exactly to collect data from SanandajMedical students as well. And finally, ESP instructors of these twouniversities were also asked to fill out a questionnaire whose aim was toprobe ESP instructors' opinions regarding the textbook they had beenteaching for several years. 2ff7e9595c