With the rapid development of information technology,the combination of terminal technology,big data and mobile Internet and textbooks has become an irresistible trend in the modern education field.Under the context o...With the rapid development of information technology,the combination of terminal technology,big data and mobile Internet and textbooks has become an irresistible trend in the modern education field.Under the context of the Internet,carrying out education and teaching activities based on digital textbooks can give full play to the rich media,openness and interaction of digital textbooks,broaden students′horizon,enrich students′knowledge,and promote the improvement of students′ability and all-round development.However,in the specific teaching practice,there are also problems such as old compilation ideas,single compilation mode and low efficiency of personalized learning.Therefore,schools and teachers need to constantly innovate the presentation and arrangement of digital textbooks,strengthen technical support,deepen students′understanding of the teaching content of digital textbooks,promote the comprehensive development of students and improve the effectiveness of digital textbook teaching.展开更多
In recent years,with the rapid advancement of digital technologies,digitization in vocational education has become a major trend.Among these advancements,digital textbooks have emerged at the forefront of digitization...In recent years,with the rapid advancement of digital technologies,digitization in vocational education has become a major trend.Among these advancements,digital textbooks have emerged at the forefront of digitization,significantly impacting both their form and content.This article aims to analyze the existing issues in the use of digital textbooks in vocational education and emphasize the importance of recognizing the vital role of teachers in the wave of digital textbook innovation.It is crucial to clarify the role and positioning of teachers to avoid inadvertently diminishing their classroom significance while prioritizing technological innovations.Teachers should fully leverage the role of digital textbooks as tools for organizing classroom activities and recognize the core and essence of classroom teaching as digital technologies enter the scope of vocational education.By doing so,teachers can contribute to the high-quality development of modern vocational education.展开更多
This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the t...This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the text challengingly and ingeniously,and spicing up the text.展开更多
Textbooks, as one of the important elements for the teaching effects and students' training aim and quality are the main carri-er and means for the realization of teaching objectives. The paper analyzes the proble...Textbooks, as one of the important elements for the teaching effects and students' training aim and quality are the main carri-er and means for the realization of teaching objectives. The paper analyzes the problems of currently-used textbooks at the followingthree aspects, textbook users, compiling styles and contents, based on 31 popular English writing textbooks used at Polytechnics as re-search subjects. Aiming to improve textbook quality and English teaching reform at Polytechnics, the paper also puts forward the ideasof compiling English writing textbooks on the basis of Feuerstein's theory.展开更多
Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is wort...Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is worth exploring the evolution of high school history textbook in Taiwan and its implications for national identity.As high school history textbooks witnessed numerous changes during the first decade of the 21st century,the following text aims to discuss the identity formation correlated with the reform among high school history textbooks in the corresponding period.展开更多
With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. Thi...With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. This paper,based on the knowledge map drawn by the visualized analysis of literatures volume, authors, research institutions,and keywords clustering, analyzes the current research status and hotspots in the compilation of China’s CollegeEnglish textbooks.展开更多
With the promulgation of the“National Quality Standards for Undergraduate Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures in General Institutions of Higher Education”and“Teaching Guidelines”in 2018,the humanistic at...With the promulgation of the“National Quality Standards for Undergraduate Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures in General Institutions of Higher Education”and“Teaching Guidelines”in 2018,the humanistic attributes of English majors and the important position of literature in foreign language learning are emphasized.Nowadays,the English literature curriculum is facing the problems of marginalization,reduction of class hours,simplification of curriculum and so on.Then in the context of the new liberal arts,it provides a new way to break through the dilemma of the literature curriculum.The study has collected the use of teaching materials of British and American literature courses in some colleges and universities across the country.Based on the survey results,the compilation of teaching materials in the new era should consider how to adapt to students’deep learning,autonomous learning,cross learning and research-based learning to provide guidance and support.The diversity of learning requires us to break the monotony of textbook compilation,show diversity and complement each other.展开更多
To explore the representation of users and uses of Englishes in the textbooks,a series of English textbooks for junior high school in China were examined in this study.Findings from analysis of representations of user...To explore the representation of users and uses of Englishes in the textbooks,a series of English textbooks for junior high school in China were examined in this study.Findings from analysis of representations of users and uses of Englishes were presented.The results show that China,the UK and the US are dominant in the representations of users.Outer circle countries and expanding countries(other than China)have no clear representations.展开更多
From September this year, trial editions of Sex Health Guidance for Senior Middle School Students, and Sex Health Guidance for Junior Middle School Students, will be used in several schools in Haidian District, Beijin...From September this year, trial editions of Sex Health Guidance for Senior Middle School Students, and Sex Health Guidance for Junior Middle School Students, will be used in several schools in Haidian District, Beijing. Haidian Education Commission has sent out notices to all middle schools in the district, including secondary specialized schools,展开更多
The appraisal of textbooks not only before selection, but also after they have been used, is a valuable exercise for any teacher. It provides a greater perception of the book's strengths and weaknesses, which enab...The appraisal of textbooks not only before selection, but also after they have been used, is a valuable exercise for any teacher. It provides a greater perception of the book's strengths and weaknesses, which enables the teacher to focus on the weak points and adapt or supplement them accordingly. The paper will provide a detailed evaluation of an EFL textbook focusing on cultural assumptions considering the cultural content and methodology with reference to a specific teaching context by discussing the various aspects of culture reflected in the various components as well as the type of methodology and syllabus design the book follows. Finally, implication and adaptation of this textbook will be argued.展开更多
Purpose:This paper attempts to examine perceived benefits,barriers,and students’reactions towards e-textbooks.Design/methodology/approach:This study is based on a survey of 105 undergraduate students in California.Un...Purpose:This paper attempts to examine perceived benefits,barriers,and students’reactions towards e-textbooks.Design/methodology/approach:This study is based on a survey of 105 undergraduate students in California.Undergraduate students were selected as the subjects of this study,because they are heavy users of textbooks for their course work.Findings:E-textbooks will complement our existing choices rather than substitute printed textbooks.While e-textbooks offer a number of benefits,they also produce many unanticipated challenges.A number of critical hurdles need to be solved before wider acceptance.Research limitations:This study attempts to explore students’reactions to e-textbooks by targeting undergraduate students in California.Future studies can focus on the long-term effects on learning.Practical implications:Considerable attention should be paid to designing features to ensure e-textbooks augment learning rather than detract from it.Originality/value:This paper also looks at the extent to which e-reader users and none e-reader users differ in their preferences for traditional textbooks and e-textbooks.展开更多
Foreign literary works are an important part of Chinese textbooks in high schools.However,the exam-oriented education results in a marginalized and unsatisfactory teaching of foreign literary works.Based on the high s...Foreign literary works are an important part of Chinese textbooks in high schools.However,the exam-oriented education results in a marginalized and unsatisfactory teaching of foreign literary works.Based on the high school Chinese textbook by PEP(People's Education Press),teaching practices,and requirements of the new curriculum standards,this article analyzes the foreign literary works in the textbook,explores its value and the infiltration of cultural spirit in teaching,discusses the problems in teaching,as well as provides suggestions to them in hope to gain attention in the teaching of foreign literary works,broaden students' horizons,and cultivate their humanistic spirit.展开更多
This paper’s focus is the examination of how do mathematics textbooks for lower secondary school in Kosovo represent the meaning of concept of function.Textbooks and teachers usually introduce function via a situatio...This paper’s focus is the examination of how do mathematics textbooks for lower secondary school in Kosovo represent the meaning of concept of function.Textbooks and teachers usually introduce function via a situation with the related quantities already identified.What is required of the students is to learn how to set up and represent the relationships in tables,graphs,and equation and analyze the properties.In the real world,when function is used as a model,the first thing that needs to be done is to identify the varying quantities.So,it is important to let students identify the quantities and let them determine which of these quantities may be related.This way they get a sense of what function really is and what it is for.The function is not the graph,not the table of values,and not the equation.The conclusion of the study is that analyzed textbooks do not represent a good foundation for building a concept of function and a few attentions paid to variability issues.展开更多
In this study,an evaluation of the presentation of speech acts in six oral English textbooks is conducted from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives to see how speech acts are presented and whether enough and...In this study,an evaluation of the presentation of speech acts in six oral English textbooks is conducted from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives to see how speech acts are presented and whether enough and explicit meta-pragmatic and contextual information are provided.Results show that 1)there is a paucity of speech acts and the average percentage of the six textbooks including speech acts is only 28.3%.And some speech acts like‘threatening’,‘warning’,‘declaring’,‘welcoming’are not presented at all.2)Meta-pragmatic and contextual information is too general and far from enough.Among all the six textbooks,from Book 1 to Book 5,contextual information is deduced by learners through reading conversations.Only in Book 6,a contextual description is provided before the conversation begins.Contextual information such as the age,gender and social status of Speaker and Hearer is never presented.Contextual information like the relationship between Speaker and Hearer and the place where the conversation happens is inferred from reading the conversations.Meta-pragmatic information like the degree of formality,politeness strategy,indirect speech act strategy,and social norms are not at all involved.Only in Book 1,a cultural tip is provided.Since oral English textbooks are one of the main sources for Chinese EFL learners to enhance their pragmatic competence,it is much expected that they should present a wide variety of popularly-used speech acts with rich contextual information as appropriate language input.展开更多
With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse...With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse.Multimodal discourseanalysis is a new approach to discourse analysis based on the semiotic theory of systemic functional linguistics.This paper providesa detailed review of multimodal discourse analysis(hereafter MDA) in modern linguistics and some previous researches on textbookdiscourse.Then it further outlines what have already been done on textbook discourse from the perspective of MDA.展开更多
Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessmen...Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessment method for Tibetan textbook(a low resource language).We extract features based on the information that are gotten by Tibetan segmentation and named entity recognition.Then,we calculate the correlation of different features using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and select some feature sets to design the readability formula.Fit detection,F test and T test are applied on these selected features to generate a new readability assessment formula.Experiment shows that this new formula is capable of assessing the readability of Tibetan textbooks.展开更多
As an important part of physical education in regular colleges and universities, gymnastics has played an active role in the development of physical education in colleges and universities. Gymnastics textbooks used in...As an important part of physical education in regular colleges and universities, gymnastics has played an active role in the development of physical education in colleges and universities. Gymnastics textbooks used in regular colleges and universities has experienced decades of development and needs to be revised and improved under the current physical education situation in colleges and universities, so as to make the content more suitable for needs of college students. This paper adopts literature review, comparative analysis and statistics analysis method to study on the existing gymnastics textbook for physical education major in regular colleges and universities in China by combing development of textbook, summarizing the content and structure, exploring problems existing in the design of textbook in recent years, and then proposing certain improvement suggestions on gymnastics textbook for physical education major.展开更多
Under the text of Xi’s call for“Chinese culture to go abroad”and the international craze for Mandarin,the article aims to reveal the relationship between college English textbooks and Chinese cultural aphasia,based...Under the text of Xi’s call for“Chinese culture to go abroad”and the international craze for Mandarin,the article aims to reveal the relationship between college English textbooks and Chinese cultural aphasia,based on an analysis of a survey of a university in southern China.The specific research questions are:What is the attitude of English majors toward integrating English textbooks into Chinese culture?Do English majors have“Chinese cultural aphasia”?To what extent?Is there an imbalance between Chinese and western culture in College English textbooks?Through a test,questionnaire,and textbook analysis,a survey on Chinese cultural aphasia in university English textbooks among English majors was conducted.The research results show that English textbooks have a serious lack of Chinese culture;English majors have severe Chinese cultural aphasia;English majors have a positive attitude towards integrating Chinese culture into English textbooks,and they are willing to learn the English expressions of Chinese culture.The author believes that the study has the following practical significance:First,the statistics in the study offer a thought for textbook editors;second,the study can stimulate English teachers to cultivate students’cross-cultural communication skills;and third,research may inspire students to learn more about Chinese culture and enrich their knowledge.展开更多
The Chinese EFL textbook GO FOR IT is widely used in most state-owned middle schools of China.According to the national English Curriculum of in China,cultural contents should be provided.The cultural contents are ana...The Chinese EFL textbook GO FOR IT is widely used in most state-owned middle schools of China.According to the national English Curriculum of in China,cultural contents should be provided.The cultural contents are analyzed from two aspects—cultural awareness through verbal communication and the cultural awareness through non-verbal communication.Specifically,appellations and greetings,polite expressions,the dining patterns,cultural imageries of animals are analyzed in this thesis.展开更多
As we all know,in English teaching and learning,textbooks plays a very important role.In Central South University,Contempo-rary College English(henceforth CCE) is chosen as textbooks for freshmen and sophomores in gen...As we all know,in English teaching and learning,textbooks plays a very important role.In Central South University,Contempo-rary College English(henceforth CCE) is chosen as textbooks for freshmen and sophomores in general English class,and Subject-basedEnglish(henceforth SBE) for senior grade students in special English class.This study endeavors to evaluate each one of CCE and SBEpublished by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press on the basis of the theoretical foundation and statistical analysis.展开更多
基金supported by Second Batch of Curriculum Assessment Reform Pilot Project of Sanya University,(SYJGKH2023029)。
文摘With the rapid development of information technology,the combination of terminal technology,big data and mobile Internet and textbooks has become an irresistible trend in the modern education field.Under the context of the Internet,carrying out education and teaching activities based on digital textbooks can give full play to the rich media,openness and interaction of digital textbooks,broaden students′horizon,enrich students′knowledge,and promote the improvement of students′ability and all-round development.However,in the specific teaching practice,there are also problems such as old compilation ideas,single compilation mode and low efficiency of personalized learning.Therefore,schools and teachers need to constantly innovate the presentation and arrangement of digital textbooks,strengthen technical support,deepen students′understanding of the teaching content of digital textbooks,promote the comprehensive development of students and improve the effectiveness of digital textbook teaching.
基金Hunan Vocational Education Teaching Reform Research Project(Project number:ZJGB2022427)Hunan Provincial Department of Education Scientific Research Project(Project number:22B0963)Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(Project number:2023JJ60189)。
文摘In recent years,with the rapid advancement of digital technologies,digitization in vocational education has become a major trend.Among these advancements,digital textbooks have emerged at the forefront of digitization,significantly impacting both their form and content.This article aims to analyze the existing issues in the use of digital textbooks in vocational education and emphasize the importance of recognizing the vital role of teachers in the wave of digital textbook innovation.It is crucial to clarify the role and positioning of teachers to avoid inadvertently diminishing their classroom significance while prioritizing technological innovations.Teachers should fully leverage the role of digital textbooks as tools for organizing classroom activities and recognize the core and essence of classroom teaching as digital technologies enter the scope of vocational education.By doing so,teachers can contribute to the high-quality development of modern vocational education.
文摘This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the text challengingly and ingeniously,and spicing up the text.
文摘Textbooks, as one of the important elements for the teaching effects and students' training aim and quality are the main carri-er and means for the realization of teaching objectives. The paper analyzes the problems of currently-used textbooks at the followingthree aspects, textbook users, compiling styles and contents, based on 31 popular English writing textbooks used at Polytechnics as re-search subjects. Aiming to improve textbook quality and English teaching reform at Polytechnics, the paper also puts forward the ideasof compiling English writing textbooks on the basis of Feuerstein's theory.
文摘Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is worth exploring the evolution of high school history textbook in Taiwan and its implications for national identity.As high school history textbooks witnessed numerous changes during the first decade of the 21st century,the following text aims to discuss the identity formation correlated with the reform among high school history textbooks in the corresponding period.
基金This research is based on the“Construction of Chinese Academic Translation Team Project”(ZP1823105)of the Characteristic Humanities and Social Science Discipline Construction in 2018,and“2019-2020 Postgraduate Teaching Book Project Translation and International Communication”,East China University of Science and Technology.
文摘With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. This paper,based on the knowledge map drawn by the visualized analysis of literatures volume, authors, research institutions,and keywords clustering, analyzes the current research status and hotspots in the compilation of China’s CollegeEnglish textbooks.
文摘With the promulgation of the“National Quality Standards for Undergraduate Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures in General Institutions of Higher Education”and“Teaching Guidelines”in 2018,the humanistic attributes of English majors and the important position of literature in foreign language learning are emphasized.Nowadays,the English literature curriculum is facing the problems of marginalization,reduction of class hours,simplification of curriculum and so on.Then in the context of the new liberal arts,it provides a new way to break through the dilemma of the literature curriculum.The study has collected the use of teaching materials of British and American literature courses in some colleges and universities across the country.Based on the survey results,the compilation of teaching materials in the new era should consider how to adapt to students’deep learning,autonomous learning,cross learning and research-based learning to provide guidance and support.The diversity of learning requires us to break the monotony of textbook compilation,show diversity and complement each other.
文摘To explore the representation of users and uses of Englishes in the textbooks,a series of English textbooks for junior high school in China were examined in this study.Findings from analysis of representations of users and uses of Englishes were presented.The results show that China,the UK and the US are dominant in the representations of users.Outer circle countries and expanding countries(other than China)have no clear representations.
文摘From September this year, trial editions of Sex Health Guidance for Senior Middle School Students, and Sex Health Guidance for Junior Middle School Students, will be used in several schools in Haidian District, Beijing. Haidian Education Commission has sent out notices to all middle schools in the district, including secondary specialized schools,
文摘The appraisal of textbooks not only before selection, but also after they have been used, is a valuable exercise for any teacher. It provides a greater perception of the book's strengths and weaknesses, which enables the teacher to focus on the weak points and adapt or supplement them accordingly. The paper will provide a detailed evaluation of an EFL textbook focusing on cultural assumptions considering the cultural content and methodology with reference to a specific teaching context by discussing the various aspects of culture reflected in the various components as well as the type of methodology and syllabus design the book follows. Finally, implication and adaptation of this textbook will be argued.
文摘Purpose:This paper attempts to examine perceived benefits,barriers,and students’reactions towards e-textbooks.Design/methodology/approach:This study is based on a survey of 105 undergraduate students in California.Undergraduate students were selected as the subjects of this study,because they are heavy users of textbooks for their course work.Findings:E-textbooks will complement our existing choices rather than substitute printed textbooks.While e-textbooks offer a number of benefits,they also produce many unanticipated challenges.A number of critical hurdles need to be solved before wider acceptance.Research limitations:This study attempts to explore students’reactions to e-textbooks by targeting undergraduate students in California.Future studies can focus on the long-term effects on learning.Practical implications:Considerable attention should be paid to designing features to ensure e-textbooks augment learning rather than detract from it.Originality/value:This paper also looks at the extent to which e-reader users and none e-reader users differ in their preferences for traditional textbooks and e-textbooks.
文摘Foreign literary works are an important part of Chinese textbooks in high schools.However,the exam-oriented education results in a marginalized and unsatisfactory teaching of foreign literary works.Based on the high school Chinese textbook by PEP(People's Education Press),teaching practices,and requirements of the new curriculum standards,this article analyzes the foreign literary works in the textbook,explores its value and the infiltration of cultural spirit in teaching,discusses the problems in teaching,as well as provides suggestions to them in hope to gain attention in the teaching of foreign literary works,broaden students' horizons,and cultivate their humanistic spirit.
文摘This paper’s focus is the examination of how do mathematics textbooks for lower secondary school in Kosovo represent the meaning of concept of function.Textbooks and teachers usually introduce function via a situation with the related quantities already identified.What is required of the students is to learn how to set up and represent the relationships in tables,graphs,and equation and analyze the properties.In the real world,when function is used as a model,the first thing that needs to be done is to identify the varying quantities.So,it is important to let students identify the quantities and let them determine which of these quantities may be related.This way they get a sense of what function really is and what it is for.The function is not the graph,not the table of values,and not the equation.The conclusion of the study is that analyzed textbooks do not represent a good foundation for building a concept of function and a few attentions paid to variability issues.
文摘In this study,an evaluation of the presentation of speech acts in six oral English textbooks is conducted from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives to see how speech acts are presented and whether enough and explicit meta-pragmatic and contextual information are provided.Results show that 1)there is a paucity of speech acts and the average percentage of the six textbooks including speech acts is only 28.3%.And some speech acts like‘threatening’,‘warning’,‘declaring’,‘welcoming’are not presented at all.2)Meta-pragmatic and contextual information is too general and far from enough.Among all the six textbooks,from Book 1 to Book 5,contextual information is deduced by learners through reading conversations.Only in Book 6,a contextual description is provided before the conversation begins.Contextual information such as the age,gender and social status of Speaker and Hearer is never presented.Contextual information like the relationship between Speaker and Hearer and the place where the conversation happens is inferred from reading the conversations.Meta-pragmatic information like the degree of formality,politeness strategy,indirect speech act strategy,and social norms are not at all involved.Only in Book 1,a cultural tip is provided.Since oral English textbooks are one of the main sources for Chinese EFL learners to enhance their pragmatic competence,it is much expected that they should present a wide variety of popularly-used speech acts with rich contextual information as appropriate language input.
文摘With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse.Multimodal discourseanalysis is a new approach to discourse analysis based on the semiotic theory of systemic functional linguistics.This paper providesa detailed review of multimodal discourse analysis(hereafter MDA) in modern linguistics and some previous researches on textbookdiscourse.Then it further outlines what have already been done on textbook discourse from the perspective of MDA.
基金This work was supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation No.(61331013)the Young faculty scientific research ability promotion program of Minzu University of China.
文摘Readability is a fundamental problem in textbooks assessment.For low resources languages(LRL),however,little investigation has been done on the readability of textbook.In this paper,we proposed a readability assessment method for Tibetan textbook(a low resource language).We extract features based on the information that are gotten by Tibetan segmentation and named entity recognition.Then,we calculate the correlation of different features using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and select some feature sets to design the readability formula.Fit detection,F test and T test are applied on these selected features to generate a new readability assessment formula.Experiment shows that this new formula is capable of assessing the readability of Tibetan textbooks.
文摘As an important part of physical education in regular colleges and universities, gymnastics has played an active role in the development of physical education in colleges and universities. Gymnastics textbooks used in regular colleges and universities has experienced decades of development and needs to be revised and improved under the current physical education situation in colleges and universities, so as to make the content more suitable for needs of college students. This paper adopts literature review, comparative analysis and statistics analysis method to study on the existing gymnastics textbook for physical education major in regular colleges and universities in China by combing development of textbook, summarizing the content and structure, exploring problems existing in the design of textbook in recent years, and then proposing certain improvement suggestions on gymnastics textbook for physical education major.
文摘Under the text of Xi’s call for“Chinese culture to go abroad”and the international craze for Mandarin,the article aims to reveal the relationship between college English textbooks and Chinese cultural aphasia,based on an analysis of a survey of a university in southern China.The specific research questions are:What is the attitude of English majors toward integrating English textbooks into Chinese culture?Do English majors have“Chinese cultural aphasia”?To what extent?Is there an imbalance between Chinese and western culture in College English textbooks?Through a test,questionnaire,and textbook analysis,a survey on Chinese cultural aphasia in university English textbooks among English majors was conducted.The research results show that English textbooks have a serious lack of Chinese culture;English majors have severe Chinese cultural aphasia;English majors have a positive attitude towards integrating Chinese culture into English textbooks,and they are willing to learn the English expressions of Chinese culture.The author believes that the study has the following practical significance:First,the statistics in the study offer a thought for textbook editors;second,the study can stimulate English teachers to cultivate students’cross-cultural communication skills;and third,research may inspire students to learn more about Chinese culture and enrich their knowledge.
文摘The Chinese EFL textbook GO FOR IT is widely used in most state-owned middle schools of China.According to the national English Curriculum of in China,cultural contents should be provided.The cultural contents are analyzed from two aspects—cultural awareness through verbal communication and the cultural awareness through non-verbal communication.Specifically,appellations and greetings,polite expressions,the dining patterns,cultural imageries of animals are analyzed in this thesis.
文摘As we all know,in English teaching and learning,textbooks plays a very important role.In Central South University,Contempo-rary College English(henceforth CCE) is chosen as textbooks for freshmen and sophomores in general English class,and Subject-basedEnglish(henceforth SBE) for senior grade students in special English class.This study endeavors to evaluate each one of CCE and SBEpublished by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press on the basis of the theoretical foundation and statistical analysis.
