A Study Of Senior High School Chinese Textbook On New Curriculum Standards By The People's Education Press

Our Chinese textbook with a long history has experienced a flectional course. It is a strong prop for the development of Chinese education and has laid a solid foundation for the enhancement of Chinese culture. New curriculum reform of elementary education adheres to student-development-based curriculum concepts, and Chinese Curriculum Standards in compulsory education also states an all-round improvement of students' Chinese attainments, both of which put forward corresponding requirements for Chinese textbook.The Chinese textbook on the Chinese Curriculum Standards in senior high school was used in four provinces in 2004. Based on the status quos of Chinese textbook development and of Chinese textbook studies in our country, this study attempts to analyze the new Chinese textbook for senior high school compiled by People's Education Press in comparison with the other Chinese textbooks published after liberation. This present study concerns the essential framework, the text-selection system, the knowledge system, the exercise system and the reading-aid system of the Chinese textbook. The essential framework consists of reading and appreciation, expression and communion, carding and inquiry, the masterpiece reading-guide. The text-selection system contains the amount and quality of text, the value orientation of text-selection. The exercise system is based on the theories of constructivism and cognitive psychology. In this part the author probe into the amount of exercises, the degree of difficulty etc. The knowledge system explores the composition of narrative knowledge, declarative knowledge and strategic knowledge. The reading-aid system includes the clew of study, chart, unit instruction, foreword and postscript. In the end of this thesis, the author concludes that this series of Chinese textbook is successful because the framework of the textbook is both incorporative and separated. The whole series textbook is a tridimensional system that can not only gain knowledge and capability but also form habits and improve student's attainments. This textbook attaches importance to course and means and pays more attention to students' autonomous learning, cooperative learning and inquiry learning. But some texts are too long and the inquiry questions are so excessive, which will be a severe test. That is a question whether the textbook can be in use on the nationwide scale.