Abstract: Under the background that ideological and political education is required to run through thetalent cultivation, it is particularly important to explore ideological and political education resources inforeign language courses, especially in foreign language textbooks. Appraisal theory can reveal the ideolo-gy hidden in the texts. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the ideological and political education re-sources contained in foreign language textbooks by applying the attitude system of appraisal theory, andproves the operability of appraisal theory to explore the ideological and political education resources in for-eign language textbooks.

Key words: ideological and political education, foreign language textbooks, appraisal theory, attitude system