An empirical study of two-stage evaluation of college American and British Literature textbooks for English majors in China（基于两阶段评估模式对中国大学英语专业英美文学教材的实证研究）开题报告

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1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

as college british and american literature courses are the core courses for english majors, the ability of appreciating and critically analyzing literary works is significant for college english majors in china. therefore, as the main learning materials, the current british and american literature textbooks need to be systematically evaluated for the consideration of whether the textbooks satisfy learners’ learning needs.

according to lu (2013, 44), currently in british and american literature textbooks for english majors in china there exist such problems as the obsolete teaching concepts, the traditional knowledge-transmission instruction, the out-of-date content, the use of obscure vocabulary and tedious sentences, the lack of diversity in selecting writers and literary works, the insufficient introduction of related theory and practice, etc. therefore, the existing british and american literature textbooks in china need to be modified from the above aspects to meet college english majors’ learning needs.

considering the above deficiencies in existing american and british literature textbooks, lu (2013, 45) infers that the inadequate british and american literature textbooks are detrimental for student’s abilityto appreciate and analyze literary works. also, the current textbooks possibly limit students’ imagination that may lead to the lack of the capacity of critical and divergent thinking.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

in order to evaluate college british and american literature textbooks for english majors in china, this research was conducted with the following three questions as follow:

1. what are the merits and demerits of british and american literature textbooks for english majors in terms of external, internal and overall evaluations?

2. to what extent do the selected two textbooks meet the learning needs of the target students?

3. 研究计划与安排

26^th, december, 2018draft thesis title

29^th, december, 2018submit the title to the uni-system

15^th, january, 2019draft thesis proposal

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

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