Ideology and Textual Analysis Modes in College English Teaching

Ideology has been infiltrating into texts. So has Western ideology extended into texts adopted in college English course book in China. As it is known to the world, there are conflicts and contradictions of ideology between China and some Western nations. Therefore, it is vital for English teachers to distinguish derogatory ideas from the Western ideologyguised under the cover of course book in the course of teaching. The paper, based upon The Diamond Necklace written by Guy De Maupassant, a French novelist, and “Unit 1 The Pursuit of Dreams, Deaf DJ” from New Progressive College English Integrated Course (Vol.1), is going to exploit the issue of ideology hidden in the texts respectively. The author of the paper puts forward three textual analysis modes to expose the ideologies, i.e. first, plot mode for fictional text; second, thematic mode for non-fictional one; third, qualitative mode for a mixed genre of fictional and non-fictional text. The three modes can be viewed as complementary, which can be used either together or separately depending upon the situation.