A Comparative Study On The Design Of Chinese And American High School Geography Textbooks Based On Situational Interests

Interest was an important factor affecting learning result. ?High School Geography Curriculum Standards)) paid attention to the needs of students learning geography and learning interest. Once learning interest formed, will let students learn geography and keep their goal consciously. Geography textbook is the first information source to students. Geography curriculum reform in our country, the development of students' ability of the geography study, the change of study style and the geographical optimization of teaching process called on the study of interest of geography textbooks. To the individual interests, situation interest is easier to operate and stimulate, which can be used in teaching practice. Therefore, the study of the different between Sino-US high school geography textbook designed is important.Through literature research, content analysis, case studies, comparison analysis and from the perspective of situational interest, the study compared Sino-US textbooks design. In this study, the situation interest of geography and the situational interest of geography textbooks were discussed and defined. There were five factors affecting the situational interest of geography textbooks. They were text features of geography textbooks, task characteristics of geography textbooks, knowledge level of geography textbooks, value orientation of geography textbooks and Participatory design activities of geography textbooks. This paper draws a conclusion that based on the comparison of text features of Sino-US geography textbooks, various and vivid leading-in, interlanguage, the specific language, the new material of textbooks, various style of textbooks expression and consecutive text, which are interesting. This paper suggested that improve the attraction of leading-in and interlanguage, make the text language more specific and tittle more organized. Based on the comparison of task characteristics of Sino-US geography textbooks, task object, task process, task outcomes, task approach, web-based learning environment and emotion environment, which are interesting. This paper suggested that set clear task object, supply many style of task, add open question, supply methods, bulid the of environment web-based learning. Based on the comparison of knowledge level of Sino-US geography textbooks, comprehensive knowledge is interesting. This paper suggested that enhance the level of knowledge. Based on the comparison of value orientation of Sino-US geography textbooks, geography focusing life, geography focusing emotion and geography focusing science, which are interesting. This paper suggested that set up columns to show the meaning and value of learning. Based on the comparison of participatory design activities of Sino-US geography textbooks, the activity of collect-arrange-analyse geography information, the activity of discovery-solute geography question, the activity of group cooperation study and the activity of learning evaluation, which are interesting. This paper suggested that arrange reasonable proportion of activities, improve the competition awareness of student and establish evaluation criteria.The innovation of this paper is the first combination of situational interest and geography textbooks design. There are some concepts this paper defined. Because the author's ability and time is limited, the exploration of the situation interest of geography textbooks is not good enough, hope to be able to continue to improve in the following research.