Comparison Study On The Value Orientation Of Senior High School English Textbook Under The New Curriculum Criterion

Under the background of globalization, English has become the most widely used international language in people’s life. Lots of countries and regions regard English as an important tool of interacting with each other. With the rapid development of world economic integration, our country has put forward higher requirements for the citizens’English quality. As the material carrier of language, textbooks influence and shape the feelings, attitudes and ideas of the younger generation in the most direct way. Therefore, what content should be chosen into the textbook? What kind of value can students realize through these specific textbooks? All these problems become the concern among people. Thus, the author will take the widely-used New Senior English for China and New Standard English as the subject of study by using four research methods including literature method, comparison method, statistics and text analysis. On the one hand, the paper digs deeply emotion, attitudes, thought connotation; on the other hand, it focuses on the comparison and analysis of the text content, aiming at exploring the value orientation of the present English textbooks in middle school.The essay is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is an introduction which presents the researchbackground, and summarizes the research meaning, subject andmethods, and explains some core concepts such as the Englishtextbooks and its value orientation.The second chapter is status quo on the study at home andabroad. The paper will go further into the literature and make aliterature review of English textbooks, the value orientation oftextbooks concerning previous studies at home and abroad;Predecessors have made studies of the textbooks, Englishtextbooks, and their value orientation at home and abroad, whichprovides the historical and realistic basis for the essay.The third chapter, the author will make a theoretical orientationbased on theories of the sociology of knowledge, Englishcurriculum standard and value orientation of curriculum, which layssolid theoretical foundation for this paper.The fourth chapter is the comparative analysis concerning valueorientation of English textbooks of NSE and NSEC. Under thecurriculum this chapter takes two sets of middle school Englishtextbook as a blueprint by using text analysis, comparison andstatistics, then analyzes the differences in writing concept, writingsystem, the text content, keywords, thus digging the valueorientation of English textbooks.The fifth chapter is the basic conclusion and outlook for futureEnglish education. According to the analysis result above, the papertries to find out the explicit or implicit value orientation of senior school English textbook, and aims at further triggering a newthinking for the future reform direction of English education, thusprovides the effective references for the present textbook writersand users.Main conclusions:1. Senior High school English textbookembodies whole-person education.2. Senior High school Englishtextbook pays attention to the application of language.3. SeniorHigh school English textbook emphasizes the concept ofhuman-centered. Based on this, the author has some thinking abouttextbooks and teaching development:First, the textbooks of listening, speaking, reading and writingare the mainstream in the future. Textbook makers will publish therelevant books above, as the level of listening and speaking is lowerthan that of reading and writing, they should choose the materialsthat cater to students’ level and topics that make studentsinterested, and publish textbooks of listening and speaking relevantto students’ real life, thus developing the abilities of languagecommunication and usage.Second, the implementation of credit system of Senior highEnglish is the direction of the future English teaching. Listening,reading, writing, oral English textbooks will evaluate students’English level in the form of credit, as listening and speaking are themost weakest link of students, textbook makers should particularlypay attention to listening and speaking textbooks, and the contentmust be realistic to let the students return to life; Schools shouldincrease the corresponding credits in the English examination program to improve students’ listening and speaking level, thusdeveloping the students’ comprehensive language ability.