新目标英语课本中隐性课程研究
Chapter 1 Introduction Research Background
With the implementation of the Direction of the Outline for
Basic Education CurriculumReform, compulsory education has em
phasized and focused on the students’ integrateddevelopment,
especially the students’ education in the hidden level. Hidden
curriculum as apart of curriculum has been a hot topic being di
scussed in the field of new curricu lum theoryresearch. Its
unique advantage is to focus on the student’ s life experience,
th eir learningprocess, emotional experience and the cultiv
ation of emotion and attitude and so on.
Thestudents’cultivation needs enforcing in the educational
exploitation and active utilization of the
curr iculum resources is th e vitalguarantee to im plement
English c urriculum effectively and improve the teach ing
quality.(NECS, 2011, p41) The English textbook is regarded as
the main carrier of the knowledge andthe core part of the Englis
h curriculum resources, including the significant know ledge
andinformation for students’ learning and teachers’ school-
teaching. Thus the hidden curriculumin the tex tbooks has
aroused widespread at tention in th e teaching practice. The
hiddeninformation and resources in the English te xtbooks will
contain m uch cultural awareness,foreign customs, emotional
cognition, moral ideas and so o n, which cannot eas ily be
foundbut enrich the teaching contents and enla rge students’
knowledge. Analysis of hiddenCurriculum in the En glish textbook
makes it neces sary for teachers and rese archers todiscover the
information below the surface of the textbook s for better
understand ing and tomake full use of the English resources.
........... Research Purpose The
exploration of teaching practice in the last decade have
attained some new education al idea is
strengthened a nd implemented in th e teaching
, some problems are exposed to teachers in the
lack of the intensive understandingabout textbooks. So the
curriculum reform puts that teachers should apply new ideas to
theanalysis of textbooks thoroughly and deeply. Hidden
curriculum as a form and a part ofcourses can not be ignored in
the curriculum reform(He Haiyu, 2004, pp. 34-36).After searching
for the domestic papers, domestic experts and scholars have made
someachievements in the theoretical and practical aspects, but
there are less research on the hiddencurriculum of subject
courses. The hidden content in the textbooks is not always
attracting theteachers’ attention. English as a kind of
language is one of the compulsory courses, not onlydeveloping
students’ language communicative competence, but also cu
ltivating their activeattitude, cultural awareness, m oral
traits and the abilities of self-dependent innovation
andproblem-solving(Lu Ziwen, 2006, p. 10). Text information is
the main proof and reference ofclass teaching, but it isn’t the
entire teaching context. Teachers should make the most of
theteaching resources in the textbook s to m ake students
acquire th e potential ab ilities andimprove their overall
qualities. However, the present researches of the hidden
curriculum inthe English textbooks are deficient. Therefor e,
utilizing the hidden curriculum of thetextbooks well is to
assist and instruct students to acquaint the knowledge structure
in theEnglish textbooks. The current study of hidden cu rriculum
in the textbooks has become moreand more significant. T his
paper takes Go For It for th e example to analyze the hidden
resources in order to be helpful on the English teaching
research. ......... Chapter 2 Literature Review
This chapter is devoted to the literature review of hidden
curriculum at home and abroadas well as studies of hidden
curriculum in textbooks. Through the analysis of literature
review,it is expected to provide the rationalization for the
study designed in the present study. It willalso contribute to
researchers to understand the thesis more easily.
Researches on Hidden Curriculum Study of hidden curriculum
has attracted wide attention at home and abroad since
itsemergence in 1980s. Educators and scholars have made some
researches from differentaspects. They have got som e useful
explorations and discoveries incl uding the definition ofhidden
curriculum, the features of hidden curriculum, the functions of
hidden curriculum andhidden curriculum in the textbooks and so
on. Some different fields involve the study ofhidden curriculum,
such as hidden curriculum in advertisement boards (Mason, Lance
E.,2015, pp. 104-111), hidden curriculum in the special
education (Moyse R. & Porter J., 2015,pp. 187-201), hidden
curriculum in the management education (Blasco & Maribel, 2012,
-388), hidden curriculum in the veterinary medicine
(Whitcomb TL., 2014, pp. 344-353).Although there are numerous
researches on the hidden curriculum, it does not mean the
studyin the field has met its terminal. The development of
hidden curriculum is im proving anddeepening the curricu lum
reform and the te aching practice. Hence, analysis of
hiddencurriculum is the continuous improvement process.
.......... Researches on Hidden Curriculum in
Textbooks The earliest research of hidden curriculum in the
textbooks were American J. Anyon . Their idea is
that the s chool as a kind of the culture capital reflects the
will andidea of the m ighty. They proposes educators should
deepen the hidden inform ation in thetextbooks and they studies
the hidden curricul um of history textbooks in Am erican
juniorschool. After their research, they found there ar e much
hidden ideology in the textbooks andthe way to put culture and
value into the curr iculum. The study of hidden curriculum in
thetextbooks mainly can be classified in three aspects as
follows;Most analysis of hidden curr iculum in the textbooks is
to discover the hidden courseresources of textbooks. Liu Hanc
heng (2008) analyses the hidden resources in the
chemistryexperiment textbooks from the design ideas an d
features of textbook s, the ideas of newcurriculum reform, the
content arran gement and the forms of hidden resource
, F. (1958, pp. 300-31 1) claims hidden
curriculum can be the com plex whole whichincludes knowledge,
belief, art, m orals, law, custom, and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a m ember of society. Chapelle
(2009, pp. 139-152) puts forwards thatforeign language textbooks
are the m ain resource of cultural input for students in
theclassroom. Shi lingm ei’ (2016) thesis puts the hidden
problem s in the prim ary schoollanguage
researches are about the effects of hidden curriculum in the
textbooks for Zhaoyang (2005, pp. 28-30) believes
that hidde n curriculum exists in Junior Englishtextbooks.
Besides, he concludes s ome positive effects of hidden
curriculum in these books,discusses some negative effects, and
puts forw ard his some advice on the construction ofhidden
curriculum in English textbooks. Zhao Jinfang (2011) finds
hidden curriculum in EFLtextbooks can weaken students’ negative
effects, and discusses hidden curriculum in Advancewith English
from three aspects: social cu ltural knowledge and value, social
ideology andeditors’ ideas hidden in the textbooks; possi ble
negative and positiv e effects of hiddencurriculum on the
students; enlightenment on teachers and editors. .........
Chapter 3 Theoretical Basis..........13 Humanistic
Curriculum Theory........13 Curriculum Reform of Basic
Education.......15 Chapter 4 Hidden Curriculum in Go For
It........17 Introduction of Go For It......17
Presentation of Hidden Curriculum in Go For It......18
of Hidden Curriculum in Go For It............19
Functions of Hidden Curriculum in the
Textbooks...............27 Chapter 5 Application of Hidden
Curriculum in the Textbooks...........31 of
English Teaching Cases.............31 Case1
.............31 Case2 .............33
Researches on theApplication of Hidden Curriculum in the
Textbooks......35 Chapter 5 Application of Hidden
Curriculum in the Textbooks After reading the related
literature and sorting out the related re search
achievements,some factors of hidde n curriculum are certainly
understood, which can im prove theunderstanding of this subjec t
after carefully exam ination on the utilization
andimplementation process of English curriculum reform. In the
actual teaching activities basedon the analysis of class
teaching, it puts forward how to make use of hidden curriculum
in theEnglish curriculum implementation and evaluation, which
makes this study give full play tothe role on the process of
curriculum reform. of English Teaching Cases
The author chosen the English teaching cases highly
evaluated online. T o improve theknowledge of hidden curriculum
implementation, the tw o following typical cases aredesigned on
the basis of the E nglish class teaching of junior school to be
analyzed for theapplication of hidden , the
teaching contents of hidden curriculum mainly involves the
Chinese traditionalculture, some Chinese holiday s and the em
otion to th e family presented in th e teachingobjectives and
teaching procedures. Then, Englis h teachers are key to the
teaching activ itiesdesign, and they guide the students and
assist th em to finish the teaching tasks. For instance,in the
warm-up, the teacher use the knowled ge students have learn ed
to guide the ’learning process is the main step
in the class teaching, so teachers should not disturbor
intervene students as a guide an d assistant. In the step of
reading, it shows the teachers’guiding by some questions. The
whole class teach ing, students can learn the kno wledge
bythemselves. This design can play an im portant part in
developing their independent learningability. After reading, the
teacher gives more information about the Chinese tradition
festivals,enrich students the cultural knowledge and ev en some
tradition customs. The design alsoinvolves the present life
about the Chinese holid ays. Finally, homework need them m ake
afestival card. They can give their own cards to their family or
their friends to express their realfeeling.
......... Conclusion The presented paper
confirms that hidden curriculum really exists in Go For It via
theanalysis. It is also proved that hidden curriculu m has very
rich contents and is presented by avariety of different forms.
Since the textbook is the carrier of curriculum and the link
betweenteachers and students, English class teaching efficiency
of junior school can be improved afteranalyzing and utilizing
the hidden curriculum of hidden curriculum in Go
For It mainly embodies four following aspects from
theperspective of humanistic curriculum theory, curriculum
reform of basic education and NECS(2011).Above all, the hidden
curriculum in Go For It is a kind of invisible power to
subtlyinfluence students’ morality development and effectively
to help the students internalize theirgood moral characters.
Some excellent Chinese traditional merits are presented in the
hiddencurriculum, such as politeness, love and kindne ss,
willing to help others and so on, thusteachers are required to
emphasize these moral merits in class and develop students’
for the cultivation of emotion and life attitude,
the contents of hidden curriculum inthe textbooks shows the
optim istic and ac tive attitude to the lif e, and even ta kes
somesuccessful cases for examples to encourage stu dents, such
as the reading of unit 1 in the firstvolume of Grade eight. On
the way to achieving one’s dream, he or she should have the
spiritof perseverance and bravery. The excellent pe rsonal
qualities can better im prove students’learning
curriculum can be seen ev erywhere in Go For
It, so English teachers needinstruct students not only to learn
the language skills and cultural knowledge but also to focuson
the life changes around us, social developm ent and our
surroundings. That is to say , ifteachers are conscious of the
hidden curriculum in the textbooks, the teaching contents will
beclose to our everyday life and are easily put in to practice.
As a person living in society , thesocial problems and
experience should not be ignored. The social developm ent and
sciencetechnology can push forward our life and edu cation. As a
result, students should beencouraged to have aw areness of anim
al and environment protection. W hen these socialevents or life
experience are involv ed, teachers should be committed to
present thes e hiddencontents in For It employs a lot
of foreign customs, manners and trad itional culture, say,
theintroduction about Chinese and foreign festiv als and
relative culture background, the livingconditions of different
countries in the world and some famous scenic spots all over the
are of benefits to broaden the students’ cultural
horizons, enrich their language knowledgeand enhance their
intercultural consciousness, in the meanwhile, to inherit the
Chinese longculture and history and learn the foreign excellent
in all, there are five main educations of hidden
curriculum in the textbooks, involvingmoral development,
cognitive, cultural transmission, personality fo rmation and
interestmotivation. .......... References (abbreviated)
