An Analysis Of Renai English Textbooks For Junior High Schools

The situation of teaching materials for English has changed a lot since newcurriculum of basic education was implemented in2001. The condition that onetextbook was used nationwide was broken completely. Right now, there are tens oftextbooks widely used in our country at least, such as New Standard, Go for it!,Beijing Normal University English, Renai English, Cambridge English, andOxford English, etc. On one hand, an array of English teaching materials givesmany teachers and students, and local education departments more freedom tochoose textbooks by themselves; on the other hand, however, the wealth ofpublished English course books makes selecting the right textbook a challengingtask. Thus, it becomes particularly necessary and important to conduct the researchof current textbooks being used.At present, most junior high schools in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, takeRenai English textbooks as their teaching textbooks, so does the junior high schoolthe author had teaching practice, the11thJunior High school in Yong’an, FujianProvince. Therefore, the topic chosen is the analysis and study of Renai EnglishTeaching Books in junior high school, which intends to get to know and find outthe problems of compilation through analysis and study of Renai English textbooksfor junior high schools; Moreover, some survey was made on teachers and studentswho used the textbooks in order to analyze and explore some problems in the useof the materials in their teaching and learning process. Conversely, somesuggestive solving methods would be given; some recommendations for therevision of the textbooks would be put forward, so that some reference to the viewsof reform and construction of the junior high school English textbooks would beprovided. Meanwhile, the thesis aims to make a modest contribution to theimprovement of the quality of English teaching in the secondary schools.The thesis mainly consists of five parts, which begins with the introduction,including research objectives and contents, current domestic research situation, thesummarization of documents; next comes the definition and functions of Englishteaching materials and textbooks, the compiling basis and principles of currentjunior high school English teaching materials; third, the interpretation of NewEnglish Curriculum and the study of the design features of modern excellentEnglish textbooks; the following is the analysis of the study and the survey on the using conditions of Renai English textbooks for Grade Seven (Volume I); thencomprehensive evaluation and proposals for its using and the revising; Finally,findings and some deficiencies which need to be improved of the thesis; last butnot least, bibliographies. Through the analysis of Renai Junior English textbooks,some findings are made. The compiling concept of Renai version Junior Englishbetter reflects the related functions and compiling principles of English textbooks.It is in line with some of the features of the excellent English textbooks. It provesthat the writers in the preparation of teaching materials fully take into account thelatest linguistic theory of language learning and linguistics teaching research. Inthis sense, the preparation of teaching materials is fairly scientific. On this basis,through questionnaires, interviews, classroom observation, and a survey are made,findings come that teachers and students using the version hold an affirmativeattitude. But there are also some problems. However, there are severalinadequacies in this study, which are mainly as follows: slightly simple surveymethod, small sample size; analysis methods and recommendations are notscientific enough and lack of systematic; moreover, research needs to be furtherin-depth.