Study on Text Reconstruction of English Textbooks in Chinese Senior High School from the Perspective of Language Images

Text reconstruction of textbook is a matter of usual means which can help the classroom guidance of students' learning and critical thinking development. The image configuration of English textbooks in Chinese senior high school becomes one of the new hot topics on logical thinking of English language learning and cognitive symbols now. And the competence of text reconstruction of English teachers is very important knowledge structure for their cross-culture cultivation of cognitive development of Chinese senior students. This study aims to: 1) find out how to stimulate students’ new interests in language classroom learning from text reconstruction of English textbooks; 2) investigate both teachers’ and students’ interests attitudes towards the text reconstruction of English textbooks published by People’s Education Press (Abbreviated as PEP); 3) optimize the language logical relationship between language and images in English textbooks in Chinese senior high school, by the mix methods of qualitative and quantitative research based on the theoretical foundation of language image theory and multimodal discourse analysis. A total of 200 teachers from China were investigated in this survey study. The conclusion are: 1) Language image can be found in English textbooks of senior high school, but the logical system of language image has not yet formed; 2) English teachers need improvement the training of text reconstruction to scientifically and accurately understand, extract the logical relationship between images and texts from English textbooks. Suggestions for English teachers are to: 1) broaden the content of different knowledge types of language images related to the text theme; 2) pay attention to cognition cultivation of students' perception on image logical system, so as to have a better understanding of knowledge structure on logical level system, cultural connotation and humanistic thinking expressed in the text; 3) pay attention to improve the classroom competence of text reconstruction which can help the students understand the deeper meaning between language and images from textbooks explanation process.