The current textbook series used in the compulsory cycle's English instruction has been the subject of much criticism, including the suggestions that it is too structurally oriented, contains little interesting or motivating material, has little functional or communicative content, is not Jordanianized but has only a surface Jordanian element, is classroom-bound in content and organization, and is overloaded with material. The texts have been blamed for the failure of English instruction in Jordan and were found to be inadequate for the objectives of the Ministry of Education, which have also been called too general and ambitious. The following proposals are offered for the new text series: (1) that they be constructed according to specific behavioral objectives; (2) that content include material relevant to daily Jordanian life along with foreign themes; (3) that they incorporate the findings of research conducted with Jordanian and other Arab students on contrastive linguistic and error patterns, attitudes and motivation, student interests, and language needs; and (4) that the texts include meaningful and realistic communicative material, be enjoyable for students at each level, combine three instructional approaches (structural, situational, and notional-functional), and be eclectic in methodology. It is also proposed that the government be more specific about a variety of pedagogical and structural details before the series is written. Appended is the Jordanian Ministry of Education's advertisement for the writing and printing of a new English language textbook series for the compulsory cycle. (MSE)