A Reflexion On Language Planning And Language Policy

The author of this thesis tries to reflect the changes of China's English language education planning and policy through analyzing the changes of China's high school English textbooks in the recent 20 Years.At the macro-level, language planning is an activity undertaken by the state, mainly focusing on solving specific language problems. Language planning is composed of status planning, corpus planning and acquisition planning. A large number of scholars both at home and abroad have been studying this field. In China, there are Li Yuming, Zhou Qingsheng, Chen Zhangtai, Zhou Yuzhong, Wang Hui and the like,and in other countries, there are Bernard Spolsky,Joshua A. Fishman,Einar Haugen,Heinz Moss and so on. However, they all basically employ LP&LP theory to solve specific language problems. Scholars studying LP&LP theory from the perspective of language teaching and learning at the micro-level are relatively few. So far the author of the present paper has known two scholars involved in this field. One is Markee, the other is Prator. They both consider language teaching and learning and even the choice of the textbooks as a part of language planning and language policy. So on the basis of these two scholars'work, from the perspective of acquisition planning which involves language teaching and learning, the author analyzes the changes of China's high school English textbooks in the recent 20 years at the micro-level to reflect the changes of China's English language education planning and policy. As a result, two research questions are designed: 1. What have the changes of China's high school English textbooks in the recent 20 years reflected on China's English language education planning and policy? 2. What effects on China's high school English textbooks and the teaching methods have the changes of China's English language education planning and policy had?In the past 20 years, there have appeared three sets of typical high school English textbooks in all, that is, those of 1984 (English), 1993 (Senior English for China) and...