This paper investigates how the type of written feedback provided by teachers affects learners’ ability to revise essays. A total of 120 participants participated in two rounds of essay composition and feedback deliv...This paper investigates how the type of written feedback provided by teachers affects learners’ ability to revise essays. A total of 120 participants participated in two rounds of essay composition and feedback delivery. The findings indicate that learners who receive comments in the form of questions are more prone to make revisions compared to those receiving statements or imperatives. These results hold significant implications for educators and the ways they utilize written feedback to enhance learners’ writing skills.展开更多
调研了美国Class Central网站发布的“2023年250门全球最受欢迎在线课程榜”19门英语写作类MOOC课程。How to Write an Essay被列为250门全球最受欢迎MOOC课程之一,源于其优质的教学设计:世界顶尖大学及其丰富的在线课程经验、优秀师资...调研了美国Class Central网站发布的“2023年250门全球最受欢迎在线课程榜”19门英语写作类MOOC课程。How to Write an Essay被列为250门全球最受欢迎MOOC课程之一,源于其优质的教学设计:世界顶尖大学及其丰富的在线课程经验、优秀师资,教学目标注重培养学习者技能、终身学习理念以及抛锚式教学模式,这对于在线课程建设和教学具有借鉴意义。展开更多
Writing is an important part of language learning and is considered the best approach to demonstrate the comprehensive language skills of students.Manually grading student essays is a time-consuming task;however,it is...Writing is an important part of language learning and is considered the best approach to demonstrate the comprehensive language skills of students.Manually grading student essays is a time-consuming task;however,it is necessary.An automated essay scoring system can not only greatly improve the efficiency of essay scoring,but also provide more objective score.Therefore,many researchers have been exploring automated essay scoring techniques and tools.However,the technique of scoring Chinese essays is still limited,and its accuracy needs to be enhanced further.To improve the accuracy of the scoring model for a Chinese essay,we propose an automated scoring approach based on a deep learning model and validate its effect by conducting two comparison experiments.The experimental results indicate that the accuracy of the proposed model is significantly higher than that of multiple linear regression(MLR),which was commonly used in the past.The three accuracy rates of the proposed model are comparable to those of the novice teacher.The root mean square error(RMSE)of the proposed model is slightly lower than that of the novice teacher,and the correlation coefficient of the proposed model is also significantly higher than that of the novice teacher.Besides,when the predicted scores are not very low or very high,the two predicted models are as good as a novice teacher.However,when the predicted score is very high or very low,the results should be treated with caution.展开更多
Writing is a kind of creative thinking activity.Essay writing is crucial for Chinese English majors for the requirements of the TEM-4(Test for English Majors-Band 4)and TEM-8.Many students are weak in essay writing be...Writing is a kind of creative thinking activity.Essay writing is crucial for Chinese English majors for the requirements of the TEM-4(Test for English Majors-Band 4)and TEM-8.Many students are weak in essay writing because they use Chinese thinking patterns and structures to express their ideas,and lack frequent and sufficient writing practice.This paper reviews the concepts of mind maps in writing and advocates applications into essay writing from word-level to whole essay structure by visual mind maps to promote their creativity in English essay writing effectively.展开更多
Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the resu...Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the results of an examination differ when short answer questions (SAQ) or modified essay questions (MEQ) are used. Method, Forty-nine students in the internal medicine course in Gothenburg, Sweden, performed a written examination in 2003, which included both SAQ and MEQ. Result, The correlation between the results of SAQ and MEQ was 0.59 (P < 0.001). The percentage correctly answered questions in the two types did not differ significantly. Some students had poor results in either SAQ or MEQ. Conclusion, The general outcome of the study indicates that results of SAQ and MEQ demonstrate a significant correlation. However, they may also reflect differences in mastery of the knowledge domain, which should be considered in relation to aspects of展开更多
CAFIU and Japan-China Association jointly held the fi rst essay contest in 2016 among Japanese people from all walks of life.According to the selection and awarding of 8 review panelists
[CAFIU and Japan-China Association jointly held the first essay contest in 2016 among Japanese people from all walks of life.According to the selection and awarding of 8 review panelists from China and Japan,5 partici...[CAFIU and Japan-China Association jointly held the first essay contest in 2016 among Japanese people from all walks of life.According to the selection and awarding of 8 review panelists from China and Japan,5 participants were given the Award of Excellence and 29 participants were given the Award of Participation.Selected展开更多
Liang Yuchun, known as “China’s Elia” in the history of modern Chinese literature, once played an important rolein introducing and translating foreign literature, especially English essays, in the 1920s & 1930s...Liang Yuchun, known as “China’s Elia” in the history of modern Chinese literature, once played an important rolein introducing and translating foreign literature, especially English essays, in the 1920s & 1930s. The present studyfirst gives a general overview of Liang’s English prose translation. Then the author focuses her attention on theexploratory analysis of Liang’s motivation for translating English essays and his literary relationship with Britishessayists, John Galsworthy, Charles Lamb and Mary Russell Mitford in particular.展开更多
As writing teachers,marking students’ essays is always time-consuming and frustrating,especially when there are large-siged classes.Students’ model essays are a good choice for writing teaching.On one hand,there are...As writing teachers,marking students’ essays is always time-consuming and frustrating,especially when there are large-siged classes.Students’ model essays are a good choice for writing teaching.On one hand,there are always students who write excellent essays;on the other hand.students are also interested in learning from peer’s writing,authentic and natural.This paper alms to explore effective writing teaching method in large-sized class by lecturing on student’s model essay appraise in terms of logical organization,fluency,and accuracy of content,appropriate use of word,phrase,sentence structure and syntax,and last common error correction.Students will learn how to use writing strategies to write an essay.As an instructor and facilitator,writing teacher should encourage students to seek both teachers’ and peers’ help in the form of group discussion so that they can revise and edit their draft essays by themselves.展开更多
Professor Karl Sudhoff had spent most of his career time researching the history of medical development in medieval Europe.The book collects the source fragment of the evidence of Professor Sudhoff's job.
Many literary essays contain a large number of metaphor examples.Due to the differences between language and culture,metaphor,as a carrier of culture,makes many translators rack their brains and make great efforts in ...Many literary essays contain a large number of metaphor examples.Due to the differences between language and culture,metaphor,as a carrier of culture,makes many translators rack their brains and make great efforts in translation.In recent years,scholars’research on metaphor also emerges many new ideas.On the basis of previous metaphor studies,this paper discusses the cultural factors in conceptual metaphor,selects the translation of some metaphors in Zhang Peiji’s Selected Modern Chinese Essays as examples,and focuses on three strategies of metaphor translation:Literal translation retains the metaphor in the original language;free translation refers to the transformation of metaphor guided by the target language culture;literal translation of cultural metaphor and increase connotation interpretation.展开更多
The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound hu...The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound humanity,etc.Nevertheless,so far the extensive use of parentheses and dashes in his representative work Essays of Elia has not been paid enough attention and a detailed investigation is virtually absent.This paper presents an effort to analyze Essays of Elia through probing into the parentheses and dashes as paratexts in regard to their stylistic effects from two perspectives-the linguistic perspective and the semantic perspective,in hope of expanding the scope of“paratext”.The major finding of the paper is that in Essays of Elia,parentheses and dashes as paratexts serving as stylistic markers are indispensable supplements which have special stylistic effects.展开更多
September 1997 marks the 25th anniversary of the normalization of diplomaticties between China and Japan. By coincidence, the 60th anniversary of thepublication of the well-known philosophical essay“On Contradiction...September 1997 marks the 25th anniversary of the normalization of diplomaticties between China and Japan. By coincidence, the 60th anniversary of thepublication of the well-known philosophical essay“On Contradiction”by the lateChairman Mao Zedong also falls in August the same year. In commemoration ofthese two significant events, with Mao’s masterpiece as his guide, the展开更多
Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group....Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.展开更多
文摘This paper investigates how the type of written feedback provided by teachers affects learners’ ability to revise essays. A total of 120 participants participated in two rounds of essay composition and feedback delivery. The findings indicate that learners who receive comments in the form of questions are more prone to make revisions compared to those receiving statements or imperatives. These results hold significant implications for educators and the ways they utilize written feedback to enhance learners’ writing skills.
文摘调研了美国Class Central网站发布的“2023年250门全球最受欢迎在线课程榜”19门英语写作类MOOC课程。How to Write an Essay被列为250门全球最受欢迎MOOC课程之一,源于其优质的教学设计:世界顶尖大学及其丰富的在线课程经验、优秀师资,教学目标注重培养学习者技能、终身学习理念以及抛锚式教学模式,这对于在线课程建设和教学具有借鉴意义。
基金This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China(No.61532008No.61572223)+1 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFC0909502)the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science project(No.20YJCZH046).
文摘Writing is an important part of language learning and is considered the best approach to demonstrate the comprehensive language skills of students.Manually grading student essays is a time-consuming task;however,it is necessary.An automated essay scoring system can not only greatly improve the efficiency of essay scoring,but also provide more objective score.Therefore,many researchers have been exploring automated essay scoring techniques and tools.However,the technique of scoring Chinese essays is still limited,and its accuracy needs to be enhanced further.To improve the accuracy of the scoring model for a Chinese essay,we propose an automated scoring approach based on a deep learning model and validate its effect by conducting two comparison experiments.The experimental results indicate that the accuracy of the proposed model is significantly higher than that of multiple linear regression(MLR),which was commonly used in the past.The three accuracy rates of the proposed model are comparable to those of the novice teacher.The root mean square error(RMSE)of the proposed model is slightly lower than that of the novice teacher,and the correlation coefficient of the proposed model is also significantly higher than that of the novice teacher.Besides,when the predicted scores are not very low or very high,the two predicted models are as good as a novice teacher.However,when the predicted score is very high or very low,the results should be treated with caution.
文摘Writing is a kind of creative thinking activity.Essay writing is crucial for Chinese English majors for the requirements of the TEM-4(Test for English Majors-Band 4)and TEM-8.Many students are weak in essay writing because they use Chinese thinking patterns and structures to express their ideas,and lack frequent and sufficient writing practice.This paper reviews the concepts of mind maps in writing and advocates applications into essay writing from word-level to whole essay structure by visual mind maps to promote their creativity in English essay writing effectively.
文摘Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the results of an examination differ when short answer questions (SAQ) or modified essay questions (MEQ) are used. Method, Forty-nine students in the internal medicine course in Gothenburg, Sweden, performed a written examination in 2003, which included both SAQ and MEQ. Result, The correlation between the results of SAQ and MEQ was 0.59 (P < 0.001). The percentage correctly answered questions in the two types did not differ significantly. Some students had poor results in either SAQ or MEQ. Conclusion, The general outcome of the study indicates that results of SAQ and MEQ demonstrate a significant correlation. However, they may also reflect differences in mastery of the knowledge domain, which should be considered in relation to aspects of
文摘CAFIU and Japan-China Association jointly held the fi rst essay contest in 2016 among Japanese people from all walks of life.According to the selection and awarding of 8 review panelists
文摘[CAFIU and Japan-China Association jointly held the first essay contest in 2016 among Japanese people from all walks of life.According to the selection and awarding of 8 review panelists from China and Japan,5 participants were given the Award of Excellence and 29 participants were given the Award of Participation.Selected
文摘Liang Yuchun, known as “China’s Elia” in the history of modern Chinese literature, once played an important rolein introducing and translating foreign literature, especially English essays, in the 1920s & 1930s. The present studyfirst gives a general overview of Liang’s English prose translation. Then the author focuses her attention on theexploratory analysis of Liang’s motivation for translating English essays and his literary relationship with Britishessayists, John Galsworthy, Charles Lamb and Mary Russell Mitford in particular.
文摘As writing teachers,marking students’ essays is always time-consuming and frustrating,especially when there are large-siged classes.Students’ model essays are a good choice for writing teaching.On one hand,there are always students who write excellent essays;on the other hand.students are also interested in learning from peer’s writing,authentic and natural.This paper alms to explore effective writing teaching method in large-sized class by lecturing on student’s model essay appraise in terms of logical organization,fluency,and accuracy of content,appropriate use of word,phrase,sentence structure and syntax,and last common error correction.Students will learn how to use writing strategies to write an essay.As an instructor and facilitator,writing teacher should encourage students to seek both teachers’ and peers’ help in the form of group discussion so that they can revise and edit their draft essays by themselves.
文摘Professor Karl Sudhoff had spent most of his career time researching the history of medical development in medieval Europe.The book collects the source fragment of the evidence of Professor Sudhoff's job.
文摘Many literary essays contain a large number of metaphor examples.Due to the differences between language and culture,metaphor,as a carrier of culture,makes many translators rack their brains and make great efforts in translation.In recent years,scholars’research on metaphor also emerges many new ideas.On the basis of previous metaphor studies,this paper discusses the cultural factors in conceptual metaphor,selects the translation of some metaphors in Zhang Peiji’s Selected Modern Chinese Essays as examples,and focuses on three strategies of metaphor translation:Literal translation retains the metaphor in the original language;free translation refers to the transformation of metaphor guided by the target language culture;literal translation of cultural metaphor and increase connotation interpretation.
文摘The distinctive style of Charles Lamb’s essays has been interpreted in different ways-abundant allusions and rhetorical devices,quaintness and vernacular,antique colloquialism,witty humor,bitter sweetness,profound humanity,etc.Nevertheless,so far the extensive use of parentheses and dashes in his representative work Essays of Elia has not been paid enough attention and a detailed investigation is virtually absent.This paper presents an effort to analyze Essays of Elia through probing into the parentheses and dashes as paratexts in regard to their stylistic effects from two perspectives-the linguistic perspective and the semantic perspective,in hope of expanding the scope of“paratext”.The major finding of the paper is that in Essays of Elia,parentheses and dashes as paratexts serving as stylistic markers are indispensable supplements which have special stylistic effects.
文摘September 1997 marks the 25th anniversary of the normalization of diplomaticties between China and Japan. By coincidence, the 60th anniversary of thepublication of the well-known philosophical essay“On Contradiction”by the lateChairman Mao Zedong also falls in August the same year. In commemoration ofthese two significant events, with Mao’s masterpiece as his guide, the
文摘Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.
