A Comparative Analysis of Literary Elements Junior High School English Textbooks with Special Reference to The People’s Education Edition, Shanghai Education Press and Foreign Language Press

Abstract

According to the "English Curriculum Reform for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition)" formulated by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the nature and orientation of compulsory education are combined with the emphasis on adjusting and optimizing the curriculum to cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic skills. This paper focuses on the problems of low level of content and a single form of literary elements in junior high school English textbooks and the lack of emphasis on existing literary elements in the current textbooks. The study also aims to find out the actual usage of the textbooks among front-line teachers and students through questionnaires and interviews, summarize the form of presentation of literary elements in the three editions, analyze their shortcomings through comparison, and learn from and supplement each other.