Comparative Study On The Text-Selecting System Of The Four Editions Of Chinese Textbooks For Junior High School

The Chinese textbooks is an important carrier to realize the curriculum standardand it is also the link between teachers and students, from the component factors andsystem of the textbooks, the current Chinese textbooks of our country are belong toText-selecting Mode, the component factors are included texts, notes, exercises, shortpassages and so on, while the texts (selection text) is an important point. In theChinese teaching activities, teaching fundamental knowledge, training Chinesecomprehensive practice ability, teaching humanistic education, cultivating aestheticappreciation taste and so on, all of these are mainly based on the texts. We can saythat the Chinese textbook is the core resources of Chinese teaching, the selection ofthe model text decides the overall quality, and affects the efficiency of the Chineseteaching and the implementation of Chinese curriculum standard. The basic educationcurriculum reform in the beginning of the century is based on the curriculum idea ofstudents’ development, the Chinese curriculum standards require improving thestudents’ Chinese accomplishment, and all of these are setting the new request of theChinese textbooks. With the deepening reform of the basic education, the compilationsystem of the textbooks are further relaxed and the new texts which coordinating thecurriculum reform are also increasing. In the aspects of studying the text-selectingstandard of the textbooks, and summarizing the gain and loss experience of thecurrent textbooks to construct the Chinese education theory and editing and selectingthe textbooks are all significant which could cause widely concern in educationalfield.This dissertation mainly adopts the analysis and comparative method to research,based on current People’s Education Press Textbooks, Jiangsu Education PublishingHouse Textbooks, Language&Culture Press Textbooks, Changchun PublishingHouse Textbooks four editions of junior high school Chinese textbooks as theresearching object, and through the basis study of the Full-Time CompulsoryEducation Chinese Curriculum Standard (Experiment Draft), try to comparativeanalyses the text-selecting system of the four editions junior high school Chinesetextbooks which included text subjects, editing pattern, ancient literature texts,modern and contemporary literature texts and foreign literature texts. Then to sort outthe problems of the four editions of textbooks in the pattern of selecting and editingthe texts, and combined with the requirements of the Curriculum Standard to putforward some specific text-selecting suggestions and thinking. Hope the study in thisdissertation could offer some references for modifying and improving the textbooks inthe future and also bring some inspirations for Chinese language teaching in juniorhigh schools.