Author(s)

Cuiwei Song ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Lincang Ethnic Middle School, Lincang, Yunnan, 677000, China

Corresponding Author

Cuiwei Song

ABSTRACT

As an important carrier of students' learning, Chinese textbooks play an important role in cultivating students' Chinese ability. Mr. Ye Shengtao once pointed out that "the textbook is nothing but an example", which emphasizes the exemplary function of the textbook, that is, the selection of texts in the textbook is to provide some examples for students' Chinese learning. There are many factors to measure the quality of a set of teaching materials, and the selection of teaching materials is one of the important factors. The purpose of this paper is to compare the Chinese and American text selection system, in order to bring some useful suggestions for our country's textbook selection system. I expects the research results of this paper to bring some positive effects to the optimization of the text selection system of textbooks. 

KEYWORDS

Mother tongue textbooks; text selection systems; comparative research

CITE THIS PAPER

Cuiwei Song, A Comparative Research on the Text Selection Systems of High School Mother Tongue Textbooks of China and the United States. Transactions on Comparative Education (2023) Vol. 5: 8-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2023.050402.

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