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The discrepancy between written and spoken grammar of English has been largely identified through corpora studies. The noted differences are significant enough to be incorporated in writing ELT textbooks though some recent studies (Timmis, 2005; Cullen and Kuo, 2007) show there is not adequate interest among textbook writers in this respect. This study evaluates English textbooks used in Turkish primary and high schools from a spoken grammar perspective. 18 textbooks have been examined intensively using a checklist of spoken grammar features, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The present study indicates that spoken grammar features are generally not encountered in textbooks adequately except for ellipsis and lexico-grammatical units. A number of suggestions are offered for more adequate and comprehensive incorporation of the noted features into the textbooks, especially into those designed for students aiming to learn English to be able to communicate

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