Survey on Student Attitude Towards Science Education in English Textbooks of Chinese Senior High School from the Perspective of Multimodality

Bin Lu; Shengyan Shi

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Survey on Student Attitude Towards Science Education in English Textbooks of Chinese Senior High School from the Perspective of Multimodality

Bin Lu, Shengyan Shi

Published in Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Received: 25 January 2021 Accepted: 1 February 2021 Published: 10 February 2021

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Since the 1990s, with the development of science and technology, multimodal features have become more and more obvious, and multimodal discourse research has developed rapidly to explore how various modals of discourse interact to produce meaning. Among the discourse types studied by multimodality, educational discourse accounts for a small proportion. English textbooks of Chinese senior high school, as one of the important educational discourses, the teaching contents of science education, especially, the reasonable arrangement, integration forms of science education have positive significance to improve students' scientific literacy. This study aims to investigate Chinese students’ attitude towards science education from the perspective of multimodality by qualitative and quantitative methods; explores the factors that influence different attitudes and opinions of students towards science education in English textbooks of Chinese senior high school; and puts forward some suggestions on using multimodality to teach science education. A total of 300 students from senior high school A (150) and B (150) of Xuchang city, a Chinese city, were investigated. The findings are: 1) students prefer the combination of audios, videos, images, colors and texts to be used in English learning; 2) students hope that they can learn more knowledge about science education systematically under the use of multimodality. The suggestions are: 1) it should pay attention to the significance of necessity of science education in English textbooks of Chinese senior high school; 2) it should pay attention to help student to learn science education by using multimodality technology for their future scientific competence; 3) it should pay attention to learn and teach science education systematically; 4) it should pay attention to enrich teachers’ teaching competence and technology skills when using multimodality to teach educational contents.

Published in	Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.edu.20211001.14
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Chinese Science Education, English Textbooks, Senior Students, Attitude Survey, Multimodality

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Bin Lu

School of Management, Shinawatra University, Bangkok, Thailand
Shengyan Shi

School of Foreign Languages, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang, China

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