大学报刊英语教材编写现状研究

Research on Compilation of College Newspaper English Textbooks

英语报刊是重要的大众媒体,报刊英语教学可以作为媒介素养教育的平台,为大学生综合素质的提高打下坚实的基础。本文以教材评估理论为指导,结合大学生的媒介素养培养目标,从教材的单元安排、兴趣激发、语言技能与阅读技巧介绍、练习设计与测试、参考资料配备五个方面对目前国内出版的20本大学报刊英语教材进行了研究与评估,发现其优点、指出其不足。研究成果对未来报刊英语教材的编写具有借鉴意义。

English newspapers are important mass media. College newspaper English teaching is a platform for students’ media literacy education, thus laying a solid foundation for their all-round development. Guided by textbook evaluation theories,combined with the cultivation of students’ media literacy, the paper conducts a comparative evaluation on 20 college newspaper English textbooks from five aspects: arrangement of units, motivation of students’ interest, introduction to language skills and reading techniques, design of exercises and tests, and learning references. The paper finds that in those textbooks exist both merits and demerits, which can be drawn upon in compilation of future textbooks.