Study of Cultural Presentation in New Standard English

Abstract

This study conducted a quantitative statistical analysis of the cultural presentation in the 2019 edition of the English textbook of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, which based on the framework of cultural presentation analysis of English textbooks proposed by Zhang Hong and Li Xiaonan. It is found that the intensity of cultural presentation in the textbook for different regions is, in descending order, the culture of the target language countries, Chinese culture, other national cultures, and international culture; at the forms of cultural presentation, cultural practices account for the highest proportion, followed by cultural products, cultural figures, cultural communities, and cultural ideas; at the styles of cultural presentation, the English textbook emphasizes on cultural discourse presentation. Finally, this study explores the implications for the development of English textbooks and the teaching of culture in high schools.