英语论文网

Chapter One   Introduction

1.1 Research Background 
In China, English has become the elementary Education course since 1977 and has been paid greater attention since 2001 when New English Curriculum Standard (NECS) was  issued.  In  elementary  English  education,  textbooks  are  important  medium  of learning  and  teaching  (English  Curriculum  Standard,  2011).  Cunningsworth  (1984) proposed that “Course book is vitally important for both students and teachers in that the  effectiveness  of  it  can  make  contributions  to  facilitating  teaching  and  learning through sufficient information about the language.” Textbooks are the core of teaching materials and have profound influence on the teaching quality (Yang and Wang, 2013). Textbooks  are  a  key  component  in  most  language  programs.  Without  textbooks, programmers  may  have  no  core,  as  Richards  (2001)  pointed  out.  They  are  closely related to curriculum and prescribe what students ought to know. Teachers can regard textbooks  as  core  resources  of  teaching  and  activities  in  class.  They  are  the  key medium  of  achieving  teaching  and  learning  objectives  (Zhang,  2015)  and  might  have direct  impact  on  English  teaching  and  learning.  However,  no  textbook  is  perfect.  No matter how well a textbook is organized, it may still have drawbacks with regard to its users  in  different  places,  which  makes  the  evaluation  of  it  important  and  highly necessary.  Textbook  evaluation  is  a  way  to  find  out  the  advantages  and  disadvantages  of  a textbook so as to promote the development of it. The results of textbook evaluation can offer  editors  information  to  improve  the  quality  of  it,  and  can  help  education administrative  department,  schools  and  teachers  to  select  the  most  suitable  textbook according  to  a  specific  learning-teaching  situation,  for  reasons  that  textbooks  are compiled under the guidance of NECS by different people with different understanding of  NECS  and  the  needs  of  the  users.  Therefore,  textbook  evaluation  attracts  more scholars’ attention. Their analysis and evaluation of textbooks have provided necessary information  for  the  users  who  might  not  have  a  good  understanding  of  how  NSE should  be  used,  for  editors  of  what  the  actual  needs  of  the  users  and  for  whether  it meets the requirements of NECS.  
.........

1.2 Layout of the thesis  
The thesis includes five cha本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。