Since the Chinese Nationalist Government moved to the island of Formosa in 1949, the Chinese language and literature education in Mainland China which was under the control of the Communist Government, and the contents of their reading textbooks and workbooks have seldom been known by people in Taiwan.Recently, the political situation changed, and the cultural activities grow across each other. More and more research papers concerning the elementary education system, educational theories, and the textbooks of Mainland China emerged. After collecting the related data, the researcher found that although there is still a gap between each other in the political ideology, the economics system, the way of life and the standard of living, the Chinese language and literature is the common heritage for both sides of the Taiwan Straits and was equally emphasized in elementary education both in Taiwan and Mainland.In order to understand further the direction and the stress point of the basic language education in Mainland China, the researcher analyzed the contents of their elementary reading workbooks and the forms and items of the language examination;therefore, the main purpose of this study is to provide the language educators in Taiwan a better understanding of the trend of language education in Mainland China. |