A Empirical Study on the Construction of Morality Cultivation Discourse in College English Textbooks - A Case Study of New Era Mingde College English Comprehensive Course

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202415345

Author(s)

Xue Dongmei

Affiliation(s)

Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Abstract

The “New Era Mingde College English Comprehensive Course 1” for the first time taking the Socialist Core Values as an element outline into the content of the textbook, is a typical case of College English morality cultivation education. From the perspective of discourse practice, this study analyzes the characteristics and construction strategies of morality cultivation discourse in the target textbook with the corpora empirical method. The research shows that compared with traditional College English textbooks, the proportion of morality cultivation words in New Mingde textbook has indeed increased, and the focus of vocabulary learning has shifted from morphology to lexical meaning. At the same time, the construction of curriculum morality cultivation discourse adopts a cross-cultural strategy based on the context of China and current times, highlighting the juxtaposition of Chinese and foreign cultural figures, and forms a systematic and hierarchical value cognition strategy through the explicit node design of value cognition.

Keywords

Curriculum Morality Cultivation Discourse; Values Cognition; Corpus

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