A Study of English Grammar Teaching and Cultural Introduction from the Perspective of Applied Linguistics

Grammar teaching is the main content of university English teaching,and the quality of teaching will affect the effect of university talent cultivation.Based on the perspective of applied linguistics,it is crucial to use cultural introduction teaching for English grammar teaching.This paper will combine the basic concepts of applied linguistics and cultural introduction teaching,analyze the role of using the cultural introduction teaching method to innovate grammar teaching mode under the perspective of applied linguistics,and put forward a scientific English grammar teaching strategy with the goal of improving teaching quality.

Systemic-Functional Grammar and English Extensive Reading

Systemic Functional Linguistics is known to people by its special functionalism and social meaning. The study of Systemic Functional Linguistics is also accepted by more and more people. In addition, it means a lot to the learning of lexis, English writing and extensive reading.

An Overview of Systematic-Functional Grammar

The key notions in Halliday's Systematic Grammar and Functional Grammar are first summarized, and then contrasted with Chomsky's Transformational-Generative Grammar. Results show that Systematic-Functional Grammar could be viewed as complementa ry to Transformational-Generative Grammar. They combine to reveal the whole picture of language.

Application of Systemic-Functional Grammar in Reading Teaching

Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.

The Application of Systemic Functional Grammar to the Analysis of Features of American Spokesman’s Language

The spokesman's language is official,flexible and public-oriented,to study how it makes sense through varied linguis-tic function is of great importance.Under the framework of systemic-functional grammar,this thesis focuses on the linguistic fea-tures of American spokesman's language from perspectives of ideational,interpersonal and textual functions.This thesis includes three parts.Part One introduces background and layout of the study.Part Two is a analysis of America spokesperson's language by SF grammar.Part Three ends with the conclusion.

Metaphor in Advertising Language from Systemic Functional Grammar Perspective

Metaphor is a common phenomenon in real life.It refers to a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.As for advertising,foreign studies focus on the analysis of ap plication and effects of metaphor.Based on the historical and current studies on metaphor,this paper aims at analyzing metaphor and its functions in advertising from systemic functional grammar perspective.It pointed out that metaphor,a rhetoric method in advertising language,has many functions,namely,politeness,imagination,subjectivity,objectivity,and textual cohesion,etc.Thus,metaphor can be seen as an important sales strategy,helping the advertisers to establish a good interpersonal relationship with the target audience so as to reach their business aims.In addition,it is also of great importance in that it can stimulate our in terest to learn English,and help us to improve English reading,understanding and writing.

Inspirations of Systematic-Functional Grammar on Language Teaching

According to the development of linguistics and language teaching,it can be inferred that various linguistic theories have played a significance role in language teaching.Considering the demands of society on the language teaching,it seems that Systematic-Functional(SF) Grammar benefits more in today's language teaching.In this paper,the four core ideas of system,multi-levels,functions,and context and their inspirations on language teaching are talked about.

Philosophical Ideas in Saussure's Theory of Language and Halliday' s Systemic Functional Grammar

How Halliday's systemic functional grammar was affected by Saussure's theory of language and what the great significance of their philosophical ideas is.The paper explains those two problems from the clue of the philosophical ideas of language.

A Review of the Development of Systemic-Functional Grammar

50 years has seen Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG)growing into its prosperity. With the efforts of Halliday and many other linguists, SFG has developed from Scale and Category Grammar to Systemic Grammar and then to Functional Grammar. The development of this general linguistic theory's features and framework is the main focus of this study. SFG views language as a social semiotic resource people use to express meanings in context.

Cohesion Analysis inThe Water Babies --Based on Systemic-Functional Grammar

Under the guidance of Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG),cohesion is applied to analyze the selected context.Cohesion plays a great role in organizing a whole context and it can be further divided into grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion.Main ideas of cohesion are illustrated and made it for application,which employs British children's literature-The Water Babies as the object.The research method adopted here is mainly quantitative.Through analyzing selected sections,it is obvious that cohesion helps readers understand the contexts better.Besides,the use of cohesion makes the context more precise and compact.For context,the role of cohesion is irreplaceable.

Analyze Obama’s State of the Union 2015——From the Perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar

The present study uses textual function of metafunction in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar as the theoretical framework,focusing on Thematic structures of political discourses.This thesis moves on to analyze the State of the Union Address and its Chinese version from the perspective of a contrastive study,aiming to find out English-Chinese translation approaches.The study findings give rise to two implications for E-C translation in Obama’s Address For one thing,a thematic structure,without any change of word orders,can be directly translated into a SV pattern in a topic-comment structure.For another,it has to be restructured into non-SV patterns.It helps to apply the strategy in the target text of Obama’s State of the Union Address.

Comparative Analysis of Two Texts from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG)

The SFG deals mainly with the study of language in context. Two texts on the same topic in different genres are chosen and they are analyzed from the dimensions of Field (What is the text about?),Tenor (What is the reader-writer relationship?) and Mode (What is the medium of communication,and how is the message organized?),which relate to Ideational,Interpersonal and Textual Metafuntions of language respectively.

NewBee: Context-Free Grammar (CFG) of a New Programming Language for Novice Programmers

Learning programming and using programming languages are the essential aspects of computer science education.Students use programming languages to write their programs.These computer programs(students or practitioners written)make computers artificially intelligent and perform the tasks needed by the users.Without these programs,the computer may be visioned as a pointless machine.As the premise of writing programs is situated with specific programming languages,enormous efforts have been made to develop and create programming languages.However,each program-ming language is domain-specific and has its nuances,syntax and seman-tics,with specific pros and cons.These language-specific details,including syntax and semantics,are significant hurdles for novice programmers.Also,the instructors of introductory programming courses find these language specificities as the biggest hurdle in students learning,where more focus is on syntax than logic development and actual implementation of the program.Considering the conceptual difficulty of programming languages and novice students’struggles with the language syntax,this paper describes the design and development of a Context-Free Grammar(CFG)of a programming language for the novice,newcomers and students who do not have computer science as their major.Due to its syntax proximity to daily conversations,this paper hypothesizes that this language will be easy to use and understand by novice programmers.This paper systematically designed the language by identifying themes from various existing programming languages(e.g.,C,Python).Additionally,this paper surveyed computer science experts from industry and academia,where experts self-reported their satisfaction with the newly designed language.The results indicate that 93%of the experts reported satisfaction with the NewBee for novice,newcomer and non-Computer Sci-ence(CS)major students.

Study of Problem-Based Learning in English Grammar Teaching

This thesis took students from Grade one of Xuancheng No.3 Middle High School as the research objects,mainly employing the classroom observation,the questionnaire,and test to investigate the effect of problem-based learning method in English grammar teaching.The findings are as follows:(a)the scores of students in the experimental class obviously improved;and(b)compared with the traditional teaching method,the application of problem-based learning method in grammar teaching can stimulate students’interest in learning.To sum up,this method can improve students’English competence and learning interest significantly,which suggests it can be applied in grammar teaching.

A Comparison between Deductive and Inductive Approaches for Teaching EFL Grammar to High School Students

This study had the purpose of testingtwo methods for teaching grammar in Englishasa Foreign Language(EFL)class:the deductive and inductive approaches in terms of effectiveness and rapport.This research was conducted in a public high school in Ecuador.Seventy students enrolled in the second year of senior high school participated.One in-service teacher taught the EFL classes during the process of intervention(10 weeks),and two EFL teachers observed all of these classes and recorded the information by filling in observation sheets.The students were administered grammar pretests and post-tests in order to assess their grammar knowledge.The results of the tests showed a significant difference in the scores in favor of the inductive approach.After the statistical analysis of the data obtained from the tests and observation sheets,we concluded that the inductive approach is more effective for teaching grammar in the EFL classroom in terms of instruction and rapport.

A Semantic Look Into English Verbs and Its Implications for Grammar Teaching

Among the different parts of speech in each language,verbs are usually the most complicated and difficult to understand and master.This paper attempts to classify and analyze English verbs from a semantic perspective,esp.to have a semantic analysis of the grammatical concept of the progressive aspect of English verbs,so as to raise students’awareness of the relationship between semantics and grammar,and thus to help students have a deeper understanding and mastery of the grammatical rules in future English teaching.

A Study of Nominal Predicate Sentences Under the Framework of Cognitive Grammar

Cognitive grammar,as a linguistic theory that attaches importance to the relationship between language and thinking,provides us with a more comprehensive way to understand the structure,semantics and cognitive processing of noun predicate sentences.Therefore,under the framework of cognitive grammar,this paper tries to analyze the semantic connection and cognitive process in noun predicate sentences from the semantic perspective and the method of example theory,and discusses the motivation of the formation of this construction,so as to provide references for in-depth analysis of the cognitive laws behind noun predicate sentences.

A Natural Language Generation Algorithm for Greek by Using Hole Semantics and a Systemic Grammatical Formalism

This work is about the progress of previous related work based on an experiment to improve the intelligence of robotic systems,with the aim of achieving more linguistic communication capabilities between humans and robots.In this paper,the authors attempt an algorithmic approach to natural language generation through hole semantics and by applying the OMAS-III computational model as a grammatical formalism.In the original work,a technical language is used,while in the later works,this has been replaced by a limited Greek natural language dictionary.This particular effort was made to give the evolving system the ability to ask questions,as well as the authors developed an initial dialogue system using these techniques.The results show that the use of these techniques the authors apply can give us a more sophisticated dialogue system in the future.

理论创新与现代汉语语法学话语体系构建

现代汉语语法学话语体系是一个基于中国特色现代汉语语法学学术体系而形成的表述系统,包括议题、概念、范畴、术语、命题、判断等,可分为显性话语体系和潜性话语体系。理论创新在现代汉语语法学话语体系构建中占有关键地位,能够开拓新议题、推动议题发展,为标识性概念的凝练提供关照,为话语资源的吸收提供视角。现代汉语语法学理论创新需具备时代性、民族性、主体性和原创性。