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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 The justification of the study
1.3 The purpose of the study
1.4 Overview of the study
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Foreign language reading
2.1.1 The nature of reading
2.1.2 Models of reading process
2.1.3 Reading strategies
2.1.4 Readability
2.2 The study of textbooks
2.2.1 The definition of textbook
2.2.2 The role of textbook
2.2.3 Text development in textbook
2.2.4 Reading activities in textbook
2.3 Material evaluation
2.3.1 The history of material evaluation
2.3.2 Material evaluation approaches
2.3.3 Construction of material evaluation framework for this thesis
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Research design
3.3 Participants
3.4 Data collection and analysis
3.5 Instruments
3.5.1 Questionnaires
3.5.2 Three readability formulae
3.5.3 Self-developed evaluation checklist
3.5.4 Two sets of high school English textbooks
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Internal evaluation
4.1.1 The evaluation of reading materials
4.1.2 The evaluation of reading exercises
4.2 External evaluation
4.2.1 The reliability and validity analysis of the questionnaires
4.2.2 Factor analysis
4.3 Summaries of the findings and discussion
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major findings of the present study
5.2 Implications of the study
5.3 Limitations and Recommendations
Bibliography
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