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4.1 The distributive characteristics of the themes in the textbooks

In this section, the distributive characteristics of the themes are to be described under  the  guidance  of  the  English  Curriculum  Standards  for  General  High  School (2017 edition revised in 2020). The general information of the themes in the textbooks is shown in Table 4.1.

Table 4.1 The themes in the textbooks   

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Chapter Five Conclusion

5.1 Major findings of the study

The  purpose  of  the  study  is  to  illustrate  the  distributive  characteristics  of  the themes and further explore the characteristics of the students’ interest in the themes in terms of different variables. The analysis brings about some main findings as follows: 

In  the  first  place,  the  five  textbooks  of  senior  high  school  English  textbooks contain  a  total  of  30  themes,  covering  three  thematic  contexts,  namely  “Man  and Society”,  “Man  and  Oneself”  and  “Man  and  Nature”.  Among  the  three  thematic contexts, “Man and Society” contains two thematic groups and involves 15 themes, accounting for 50%, the 15 themes includes B1U5 “A Lesson in a Lab”, B1U6 “The Internet and Telecommunications”, B2U3 “Music”, B2U4 “Fine Arts-Western, Chinese and Pop Arts”, B2U5 “Newspapers and Magazines”, B2U6 “Films and TV Programs”, B3U5 “Great People and Great Inventions in Ancient China”, B3U6 “Old and New”, B4U2 “Traffic Jam”, B4U3 “Body Languages and Non-verbal communication”, B4U4 “Great  Scientists”,  B5U1  “British  and  American  English”,  B5U3  “Adventure  in Literature and the Cinema”, B5U4 “Carnival”, B5U5 “The Great Sports Personality”; “Man  and  Oneself”  contains  four  thematic  groups  and  involves  eight  themes,  the percentage is 27%, the eight themes are B1U1 “My First Day at Senior High”, B1U2 “My New Teachers”, B1U3 “My First Ride on a Train”, B1U4 “A Social Survey-My Neighborhood”, B2U1 “ Our Body and Healthy Habits”, B2U2   “No Drugs”, B4U1 “Life in the Future”, B5U2 “A Job Worth Doing”; “Man and Nature” contains four thematic groups and involves seven themes, the proportion is 23%, the seven themes are  B3U1  “Europe”,  B3U2  “Developing  and  Developed  Countries”,  B3U3  “The Violence  of  Nature”,  B3U4  “Sandstorms  in Asia”,  B4U5  “A Trip Along  the Three Gorges”, B4U6 “Unexplained Mysterious of the Natural World”, B5U6 “Animals in Danger”. Therefore, it can be concluded that the distribution of themes in the senior high school English textbooks of the FLTRP edition is not balanced. The theme of “Man and Society” accounts for the largest proportion, the proportion is half of the total, and the percentage of “Man and Oneself” and “Man and Nature” is roughly the same.