| As the carrier of curriculum design and implementation,teaching materials play an indispensable role in teaching activities.The text existed in the textbook has been widely concerned by scholars for a long time,but the relevant research on the illustrations in the textbook is rare.The appearance of illustrations in textbooks is a teaching innovation of textbooks,and illustrations are gradually widely used in teaching activities,which have been putting into multimedia teaching,such as PPT.With the development of the multimodal information,the era of multimoding is coming.The textbook illustrations gradually step into the line of sight,a number of literature from the perspective of current situation of application of textbook illustrations,illustration were applied to teaching,strategy of application of textbook illustrations.From the perspective of textbook evaluation,most of the scholars did research from the aspects of the number,function,type,but the relationship of illustrations and text did the in-depth study,which is less.The writer found that current research literature is the majority from Martinec and Salway Graphic Relation Theory after I downloaded considerable research concerned with relationship of texts and illustrations in textbook.And I found that few literature took the Marsh and White Graphic Relation Theory as research angles of view,so this thesis try to study the relationship between text and illustration with guidance of Marsh and White Graphic Relation Theory based on the analysis of the number,type,function about English textbooks for high school--the compulsory 1~5.And combining with questionnaires and interviews,the thesis did internal and external evaluation on the illustrations in this set of textbooks.The specific problems of the study are as follows:(1)What are the general features of illustrations in the high school English textbooks People’s Education Press published?(2)What is the relationship between illustrations and texts in the textbook? What are the distribution characteristics?(3)What do students and teachers think of the illustrations in the textbook?It is found that: The number of illustrations in this set of textbooks is large,mainly colorful,the distribution is wide,the organization is diverse.The graph and text are closely related,but the number of“Superior Picture”is less,which means that illustrations can give more information than text.Students and teachers are satisfied with this set of textbooks on the whole,and do not give high evaluation on the influence of illustrations on students’ English reading.The following problems are found in this set of textbooks: The number of illustrations set in grammar is less;few of illustrations are ambiguous etc.Therefore,at the end of this article,the author puts forward some suggestion for textbook users and textbook compilers from what have been mentioned above problems with the hope of providing theoretical guidance and reference for future researchers for textbook users and textbook compilers. |
