Abstract
Instrumental texts, as an important part of the textbooks, play an important role in organizing the teaching content and the teaching activities, facilitating the communication of the teacher, students and textbooks. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study and evaluate the instrumental texts of the textbooks. The instrumental texts in Market Leader is adopted as the research object. Content analysis and corpus analysis are applied in this paper. By retrieving their salient lexical and semantic patterns which are further associated with some modern concepts in ESP education, the book is evaluated from the perspective of cognitive strategy, learning styles, the relationship between teaching materials and learners and contextualized language instructions. The results of this study are as following: 1) Teaching notions can be reflected from the instrumental texts. 2) Cooperative learning and learners-centered approach are well shown in this book. Cognitive thinking and situation creation are relatively weak in this book.
Highlights
English teaching has been received wide attention from all sectors of society
With the aid of corpus, the instrumental texts in Market Leader are analyzed from the perspective of cognitive strategy, learning styles, the relationship between teaching materials and learners and contextualized language instructions
On the basis of the above studies, the hypotheses put forward before are verified that the instrumental texts can reflect the teaching notions
Summary
English teaching has been received wide attention from all sectors of society. Teaching materials, as essential tools and resources in the process of teachers’ teaching and students’ learning, play significant and indispensable role in English teaching, providing important guidance for English teaching concept. Concordance and sentence patterns in the target texts are analyzed through the establishment of corpus and the application of retrieval approaches of computers frequency-driven to extract the characteristics of linguistic forms and semantic meaning, and the education idea, teaching objectives and teaching method of the instrumental texts are deduced to evaluate some suggestions of designing instrumental texts (He, 2007). English teaching materials are analyzed by the means of corpus and other tools. The evaluation of English textbooks has been developed for many years, there are few studies when it comes to the evaluation of cognitive thinking shown in instrumental texts. Few literatures evaluating teaching materials from the perspective of instrumental texts with the aid of corpus tool. (2) Whether do the words used in instrumental texts accord with learners-centered approach?
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