Title:
A STUDY ON LEARNING PLANS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS BASED ON THE BIG CONCEPT-TAKE GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS AS A CASE STUDY

Authors:
Dan Yang ,China

Abstract:
This study is aimed at researching learning plans of Senior High School English textbooks based on the big concept, promoting the overall English teaching design of Senior High School, and encouraging students to carry out deep study. It mainly uses discourse analysis method for English unit teaching designs, arranges the content of unit teaching reasonably, and promotes the quality of English teaching in high schools through a complete unit theme teaching. This study, by sorting out the connotation, characteristics and relevant literature of big concept, takes Unit 4, Compulsory 1 of New Yilin Senior High School English textbooks as an example to explore the overall teaching design of units pointing to deep study. Findings of the research include: learning plans of Senior High School English textbooks based on the big concept makes English teaching from scattered to interrelated, promoting students’ deep study, and implementing core English literacy; learning plans based on the big concept are quite beneficial to the development of both teachers and students.