In my ten-yeat experience of tenching English as major in college , I feel that students experience more difficulties in listening lessons than in other lessons. What, then, prevents students from achieving success in...In my ten-yeat experience of tenching English as major in college , I feel that students experience more difficulties in listening lessons than in other lessons. What, then, prevents students from achieving success in the listening class? I suggest that anxiety is one of the major factors, which interferes with students listening comprehension. And I would agree with writers such as Gardner and Horwitz et al. (1991)that anxiety may impede learner’s ability to perform successfully in all aspects of learning a foreign language. I feet it is particularly significant for listening.展开更多
My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolingu...My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolinguistic perspective. Some key sociolinguisticconcepts concerning conversations, such as standard/non-standard English, class, politeness and taboo, gender and phatic communication are to be explored and used in the analysis.展开更多
文摘In my ten-yeat experience of tenching English as major in college , I feel that students experience more difficulties in listening lessons than in other lessons. What, then, prevents students from achieving success in the listening class? I suggest that anxiety is one of the major factors, which interferes with students listening comprehension. And I would agree with writers such as Gardner and Horwitz et al. (1991)that anxiety may impede learner’s ability to perform successfully in all aspects of learning a foreign language. I feet it is particularly significant for listening.
文摘My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolinguistic perspective. Some key sociolinguisticconcepts concerning conversations, such as standard/non-standard English, class, politeness and taboo, gender and phatic communication are to be explored and used in the analysis.
