Abstract：Abstract: Educational linguistics is the study of education from the perspective of language, and it can adopt text analysis as its basic methodology. From the perspective of individual mental development, the aim, contents, media and means of education are semiotic. From the perspective of social cultural transmission, both the social context and the realization mechanisms of education are semiotic. The semiotic nature of education implies that educational text is the bearer of educational activities and the basis for both individual mental development and social cultural transmission, which shows that the analysis of educational text is the basis of education studies. The scope of educational text analysis covers textual activities involved in individual mental development and social cultural transmission, including both the dynamic text construction process and static text construction products. Depending on the aim and objectives of our studies, the specific methods for educational text analysis include structure analysis, cognitive analysis, social cultural analysis, critical analysis, multimodal analysis and comprehensive analysis. Key words: educational linguistics; discourse analysis; methodology
