Research on the Language and Literature Textbook Template Format Designed by Shanghai Education Press for Grade 5 and Grade 6 Students in the Elementary School

• Main Authors: Shu-yen Lu, 呂淑燕
• Other Authors: Deng-shuen Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50741831534658015596

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 國語文學系碩士班 === 100 === The aim of this research is to analyze the format of a language and literature textbook designed by Shanghai Education Press, including the sentence patterns, rhetoric, writing style, and composition structures used. The scope of this study concerns the textbook for fifth and sixth grade elementary school students. The method of “content analysis” was adopted to carry out this study, with the following results: In terms of the length of lessons, there are roughly 130,000 words in total in the textbook, with an average of 900 words in each lesson. The source material for the textbook is primarily selected from periodicals, newspapers, journals, and anthologies. Complex sentences and subordinate complex sentence are applied equally in the textbook. Compound sentences are most commonly used, followed by transition sentences, coherent sentences, progressive sentences/subjunctive sentences, clauses of selection, conditional sentences, and clauses of purpose. In terms of rhetoric, “adjustment of expression method” and “elegant design of format” are both used, with the former being used more frequently than the latter. The most frequent uses of rhetoric are juxtaposition, antithesis, and insertion. With regards to literature classification, the prose is used most fequently, followed by the novel, then the poetry and the drama. The composition structure can be categorized into 18 patterns in five major classes. The most frequently used pattern is sequent narrative, followed by cluster description, and compound structure with primary and secondary setting.