A Survey on Prospect Series (1,2,3) Teacher's Guide

Teacher’s guides have a significant role in enhancing teachers’ professional knowledge and can assist them in developing lesson plans and classroom activities. In EFL settings, where exposure to a foreign language is limited, the function of teacher’s guides is more prominent. Fortunately, the developers of Prospect series have acknowledged the importance of teacher’s manuals by developing such guides, which can help teachers in dealing with the content of the books as well as conducting their classes. The current study aimed to explore whether the characteristics of Prospect series teacher manuals conform to the criteria recognized and utilized by different scholars in the field. Therefore, Miekley’s evaluation checklist )2005) was selected to collect data from 100 female English language teachers of Tehran high schools in different educational districts. The results showed that the teacher’s guides had an acceptable status regarding the criteria proposed by the evaluation checklist.