诞生于上个世纪50年代的多元文化主义思潮致力于承认和维护不同文化的平等共存，给予不同群体以平等的机会参与社会生活，教育承载着文化选择、传递、改造和创造的功能，作为学校教育的重要载体，英语教科书是进行多元文化教育的重要媒介。 本篇论文主要围绕多元文化主义关注的重点议题，如性别、种族、年龄、残疾人、国别等，对人教版初中英语教科书Go for it进行全面的课文内容要素进行分析，分析结果发现五本Go for it的课文中主要角色中男性比例高于女性，此外课文对两性形象刻画也带有明显偏见，男性角色大多居于领导地位，女性则多受限于家庭生活；课文主要角色中老年人和残疾人出现的次数仅为两次，且具体人物描写突显这两个弱势群体的负面形象；课文中的角色多数为白人，所有课文中没有黑人担当主角，黑人英雄也只充当文章的背景信息；从国家层面上看，课文的背景多为发达国家，其中以美国为主，全面展现了美国的历史传统和现代文明，发展中国家的描写则聚焦其朴素的自然环境，缺少文化方面的关注；从地区层面上看，课文集中展现了现代城市风貌，缺少对农村优秀文化的描写。此外，本篇论文借助班克斯的多元文化课程模型及其标准对所有文章进行了分类分析，分析结果发现Go for it的课文主要分布在模型的前三个层面，即贡献途径、附加途径和转换途径，主要介绍了节日文化、旅游文化、英语文学和其他社会风俗等，课本通过介绍文化知识引导学生认识多元文化或从多个角度理解多元文化，帮助学生形成跨文化交际意识，但是课本缺少从社会行动途径出发的课文，社会行动途径要求学生在理解的基础上采取行动促进多元文化的共存和发展。 论文最后基于上述分析结果对英语教科书、英语教科书编者和英语教师提出了相应建议：理想的英语教科书应该平衡多元文化要素、秉持多元文化平等立场、丰富多元文化融入途径；英语教科书编者应该优化内部编写队伍建设、综合利用外部资源全面评估提升教科书质量；英语教师首先要培养自身的多元文化意识、正确认识教科书的功用继而灵活使用教科书以发挥其最优功能。

Multiculturalism born in the 1950s is committed to recognizing and maintaining the equal coexistence of different cultures, giving different groups equal opportunities to participate in social life. Education bears the functions of cultural selection, transmission, transformation and creation. As an important carrier of school education, English textbooks are an important medium for multicultural education. This thesis mainly focuses on the key issues of multiculturalism, such as gender, race, age, exceptionality, country and region. It makes a comprehensive analysis of the cultural elements of Go for it, a junior high school English textbook published by People’s Education Press. The analysis results show that the proportion of male characters is higher than female. In addition, there are prejudices in the description of male and female characters. Male characters are mostly in the leading position, while female characters are mostly confined to family life; There are only two main characters in the textbooks are the elderly and the disadvantaged, and the specific description highlights the negative images of these two minority groups; The roles in the textbooks are mostly Caucasoid while there is no Negroid leading role in all texts; From the national level, the background of the texts is mostly developed countries, among which the United States is especially addressed. It fully shows the historical tradition and modern civilization of the United States, while the description of the developing countries simply focuses on its natural environment lacking cultural attention; From the regional level, the textbooks focus on the modern urban life while lacks the description of the excellent rural culture. In addition, this thesis classifies and analyses all texts with the help of Banks’ multicultural curriculum model and its standards. The results show that the texts in Go for it mainly distribute in the first three levels of the model, namely, the Contribution Approach, the Additive Approach and the Transformation Approach. It mainly introduces festival culture, tourism culture, English literature and other social customs. The textbook introduces culture by introducing cultural knowledge to guide students to understand multiculturalism from different perspectives, and helps them form cross-cultural communication awareness gradually. However, Go for it lack texts from the Social Action Approach, which requires students to take action to promote the coexistence and development of multiculturalism on the basis of multicultural understanding. Finally, based on the above analysis, the thesis puts forward corresponding suggestions for English textbooks, English textbook compilers and English teachers: ideal English textbooks should balance multicultural elements, adhere to the position of multicultural equality, and enrich the approaches of multicultural integration; English textbook compilers should optimize the construction of internal compilation team and make comprehensive use of external resources to improve the quality of textbooks; English teachers should raise their own multicultural awareness firstly, correctly understand the function of textbooks, and then flexibly use textbooks to play their best role.