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East meets West: Exploring the Integration of Chinese Culture in PEP Senior High English Textbooks (2019 Edition) in China

Author(s)

Xiuli Sun1,2, Xialan Dong1,3,*, Fenghua Zhao1,4, Jiefeng Wei1,5

Affiliation(s)

1College of Education, De La Salle University-Dasmarinas, Dasmarinas, Cavite, Philippines 2Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, China 3Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, Hubei, China 4Zheng zhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 5Guangxi Baise University, Baise, Guangxi, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

Under the background of globalization, culture teaching is becoming more and more important. English textbook is the main carrier of culture teaching. In order to integrate the Chinese culture better, this paper analyzed the elements of Chinese culture in the textbooks and found that the textbooks emphasize material culture rather than spiritual culture, value cultural input rather than cultural output, and lack of deep culture and revolutionary culture. Therefore, distribution of Chinese theme culture should be balanced in New Senior High English Textbooks, the structure of Chinese culture should be adjusted and optimized, and Chinese culture should be strengthened as the main multi-cultural input and harmonious ecological culture output, only in this way, can we realize the organic integration of Chinese culture and middle school textbooks better.

Keywords

Chinese Culture; Integration; NSEFC (2019); English Textbooks

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