Abstract
The purpose of this article is to examine and evaluate five advanced English language coursebooks (English News and Views, face2face, Ready for CAE, Solutions, Upstream Advanced) from the viewpoint of the vocabulary selection and teaching techniques they employ. Based on content analysis, it outlines their strengths and weaknesses and makes suggestions for improvements. The results show that out of the five selected English language coursebooks, English News and Views is the only one which has been written by Romanian teachers for Romanian classrooms.
Key words: advanced coursebooks, teaching techniques, vocabulary