Solutions and American English Files: Can they meet the learners’ needs?

The current study aimed to explore the degree of congruity between English language learners’ real-life needs and the content presented in the upper-intermediate level of Solutions and American English File series. To this end, ۲۰ EFL learners completed an adopted version of a questionnaire genuinely developed by Balint. Two researchers also evaluated the textbooks based on the same questionnaire. The results of the researchers’ evaluation of the activities in the two textbooks and descriptive statistics of the participants’ responses to the questionnaires revealed that American English File books could highly meet the top-graded needs of the students. The findings can carry pedagogical implications for the materials developers and teachers to make the required adaptation in order to gear these widely textbooks to the learners’ needs.