An evaluation of English coursebooks used in Turkish high schools for learner autonomy: A descriptive study

Research on materials evaluation shapes what materials we are to face in the future. With every single study, we take one more step towards adapting learning and teaching materials according to learners needs. While the trend nowadays is in favor of more learner-centered approaches, one of the fundamentals of learner-centered education, autonomy, must find its place on the upper levels of the structure we, teachers, are trying to build. In this study, we tried to find out to what extend English coursebooks used in high schools in Tukey help learners develop autonomy. Results indicate that coursebook publishers need to support learner autonomy in their print materials more effectively.