英语专业精读教材思政元素呈现研究

Abstract

To explore and analyze the ideological and political elements in college foreign language textbooks is helpful to implement morality cultivation in English majors. The study, therefore, builds an analysis framework of ideological and political elements to analyze ‘New English Course’ in terms of the contents and the presentation methods. Firstly, in terms of contents, the results of content analysis show that the textbook meets the basic requirements of educating students, and the cultural and natural contents need to be strengthened. The details are as follows: 1. the dimensions of human and self-occupy the largest proportion, and the distribution of each category is related to the grade; 2. the dimensions of man and the world ranks second, among which the category of world knowledge is high, and the content of international vision needs to be strengthened; 3. the dimensions of man and the country accounts for a relatively small percentage, within which Chinese culture is presented in a variety of ways with low contents frequency; 4. the dimensions of man and nature accounts for the least proportion, mainly by providing nature knowledge to promote students’ awareness of nature protection. Secondly, in terms of the presentation methods, the study shows: 1. Reasoning behind facts is the most used method, while image is the least used one; 2. The frequency of direct reasoning represents a decrease over years, while the importance of argumentation appeared. Therefore, the study suggests: 1. Ideological and political elements are unevenly distributed, so textbook editor and writers should keep pace with time to promote students’ development; 2. The ideological and political elements of Chinese human spirit are insufficient, so both the textbook and English teachers should make efforts to improve students’ humane accomplishment; 3. The distribution of presentation methods needs improvement, and textbooks and teacher should work together to develop students’ critical thinking ability.