Study On U.S Middle School Mother Tongue Textbooks

As the famous Chinese saying goes, "there are other hills whose stones aregood for working jade--other people's advice is of help", the purpose of thispaper is to make a relatively full and deep research of seven widely used U.S. mother tongue textbooks, with the help of some other resources. The paper includes three parts: the first part deals with the system of the textbook as well as the present situation of the publication of the elementary and high school textbook in the U.S.; the second part analyzes the styles and the characteristics of seven representative U.S. middle school textbooks; the last part discusses some experience which may enlighten us.It's hoped that some of the compiling experience of the U.S. middle school textbook will benefit the construction of our Chinese textbook and make the modernization of Chinese textbook possible.