American History and Culture is a book published by Peking University Publishing House in 2009. The authors are Chang Junyue, Zhao Yongqing and Yang Xia.

Publishing House: Peking University Publishing House

Publication date: September 2009

Fixed price: 29.00 yuan

ISBN:978730 1 157 138

American History and Culture is one of the series of English content textbooks under the guidance of the content-based teaching concept and supported by the national philosophical and social science project "Research on content-based teaching reform for English majors at the basic stage". It is the first prize of teaching achievement of Dalian Foreign Studies University and Liaoning Province, and the second prize of national teaching achievement.

The introduction of this series of textbooks has important theoretical and practical significance.

With the rapid development of English education in China, the long-term "skill-oriented" curriculum construction concept and teaching concept of English majors can no longer meet the needs of society.

Experts and teachers pay close attention to the current English major education, such as the disjointed English teaching in universities, primary schools and middle schools, the separation of language and content teaching, too much language skills training, insufficient specialized content courses, poor systematic subject content courses, unbalanced arrangement of high and low grade content courses, and the resulting problems such as narrow knowledge, lack of knowledge structure, weak critical thinking ability and insufficient development of comprehensive quality.