The Choice of Multicultural Content in English Textbooks in Junior High School ---A Case Study of Go For It(2013) Abstract English, as a global language, is used as a very important tool in cross-cultural communication. Thus culture teaching plays an important role in English teaching. English textbooks have become an important resource for students to gain cultural knowledge. Analyzing the multicultural content in English textbooks can reflect the condition of culture teaching to some extent. 

This thesis tries to make a case study of the choice of multicultural content in junior high school English textbooks. The thesis first classifies the cultural content in Go For It (2013) into four categories: native culture, inner circle culture, outer circle culture and expanding circle culture. Then detailed analysis from different perspectives like quantity, theme and the textbook blocks occur of the four types of cultural content is shown. 60565

The results show that in general the allocation of multicultural content in this set of books is reasonable with various themes and forms and culture comparison is taken into consideration. There is abundant native cultural content but the persity of Chinese culture can’t be shown to a large extent. Inner circle culture plays a dominant role in which American culture is paid too much attention resulting in the ignorance of the culture of other English-speaking countries. Outer circle cultural content is limited in quantity. Many countries in the expanding circle are involved but most of their cultures are not described in detail. At last, the thesis puts forward some suggestions for English teachers on dealing with the multicultural content in English textbooks.

 Keywords: junior high school English textbooks, language, cultural content 

初中英语教科书中多元文化内容选择的分析---

摘  要英语作为全球性的语言，是人们进行跨文化交际的重要工具。文化教学在英语教学中占有重要地位。英语教材是学生获取文化知识的重要来源。因此分析英语教科书中文化内容的选择能在一定程度上反映英语课程中文化教学的情况。   

本篇论文试图以人教版初中英语教材为例分析初中英语教材中的多元文化内容。本文首先将初中英语教材《新目标》中的文化内容按本土文化、内圈文化、外圈文化和拓展圈文化四种文化素材进行归类。其次从不同文化内容的数量、主题及呈现方式等角度对文化内容进行对比分析。

结果显示，初中英语教材《新目标》中的文化内容总体配置较为合理，文化内容主题丰富，呈现方式多样，重视文化对比。中国本土文化内容在这套教材中受到相当大的重视，数量较多，但对中国文化多样性的体现有所欠缺。内圈文化占比最大，其中，美国文化占比过大，导致其他英语国家文化涉及较少且不够深入。外圈文化涉及较少。拓展圈文化涉及国家较多，但深入性不够。最后，本文针对课本文化内容设置的不足之处向英语教师提出文化教学的几点建议。

毕业论文关键词：初中英语教材，语言，文化内容 

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

2.1 Definition of Culture 2

2.2 Classification of Culture in English-speaking Countries 2

2.3 Function of English textbooks 3

2.4 Studies on Cultural Content in EFL textbooks 3

3. Investigation into Multicultural Content in Go For It 5

3.1 Research Objectives 5

3.2 Research Method