| 英文摘要 |
This study explored the text types and text structures in Mandarin Chinese textbooks for upper elementary students. The research addressed two main questions. First, what are the common text types in Mandarin Chinese textbooks for upper elementary students? Second, what are the prevalent text structures and characteristics in these textbooks? A total of 53 texts from four volumes of version A of a Mandarin Chinese textbook for upper elementary students were analyzed. Content analysis was employed to determine the proportion of each text type and structure. The results indicated that literary texts dominated the majority of text types, with narrative prose being the most common text type among literary texts and subjective commentaries being entirely absent from nonliterary texts. Text structures were categorized into three types on the basis of shared characteristics, and distinctions were made between basic and advanced structures. Notably, narrative structures were the most prevalent, followed by explanation structures and discussion structures. Overall, this study suggests providing additional opportunities for students to read and write commentary texts in nonliterary contexts, adjusting the learning timeline for text structures, rebalancing the proportions of basic and advanced text structures, and guiding elementary school text reading and writing instruction through a main structural axis and text structure. |