Harry Potter booksare great successes, enjoyed by readers' all over the world. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the debut of the sequel books, which is about magic and the magical life a little boy-...Harry Potter booksare great successes, enjoyed by readers' all over the world. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the debut of the sequel books, which is about magic and the magical life a little boy-Harry Potter, a born wizard. People are always curious and eager to discover the secrets of magic, to meet the end of the heroes' fates, but not many of them pay attention to the book's language. Actually, I think it is the skillful use and application of language that make the book outstanding. Therefore, this paper mainly discussesthe language features of Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone from these four as-pects: speech sounds, choice of vocabulary, sentence structures and figures of speech, aiming at exploring and revealing the charmsof the magic book.展开更多
Foreign Language Learning is a kind of ability which enables people to learn how to handle speech information. A foreign language learner can study foreign language well in a quick way only if he could grasp the essen...Foreign Language Learning is a kind of ability which enables people to learn how to handle speech information. A foreign language learner can study foreign language well in a quick way only if he could grasp the essential feature of the speech system and is trained in a harmonious way which is a combination of sound, meaning, feeling, mien and speed and all of his doings should be carried out on the basis of systematic engineering principles and in accordance with the research findings of modern psychological linguistics. This paper aims to probe into the physiological-psychological mechanism of speech, its essential features and ways of improving the ability of foreign language listening and speaking in the perspective of systematic engineering principles.展开更多
In pronunciation teaching, learners may have difficulty when there is a ＂gap＂ in the phonemic system between L1 （the first or native language） and L2 （the second or foreign language）. In such a case, they tend t...In pronunciation teaching, learners may have difficulty when there is a ＂gap＂ in the phonemic system between L1 （the first or native language） and L2 （the second or foreign language）. In such a case, they tend to use their native language sounds in speaking the foreign language. Since some Chinese and English vowel sounds are easy to be confused, applying IPA cardinal vowels in the teaching of English pronunciation will help Chinese learners identify the difference between an English vowel sound and a Chinese vowel sound and thus enables them to make intelligible English speech sounds.展开更多
文摘Harry Potter booksare great successes, enjoyed by readers' all over the world. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the debut of the sequel books, which is about magic and the magical life a little boy-Harry Potter, a born wizard. People are always curious and eager to discover the secrets of magic, to meet the end of the heroes' fates, but not many of them pay attention to the book's language. Actually, I think it is the skillful use and application of language that make the book outstanding. Therefore, this paper mainly discussesthe language features of Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone from these four as-pects: speech sounds, choice of vocabulary, sentence structures and figures of speech, aiming at exploring and revealing the charmsof the magic book.
文摘Foreign Language Learning is a kind of ability which enables people to learn how to handle speech information. A foreign language learner can study foreign language well in a quick way only if he could grasp the essential feature of the speech system and is trained in a harmonious way which is a combination of sound, meaning, feeling, mien and speed and all of his doings should be carried out on the basis of systematic engineering principles and in accordance with the research findings of modern psychological linguistics. This paper aims to probe into the physiological-psychological mechanism of speech, its essential features and ways of improving the ability of foreign language listening and speaking in the perspective of systematic engineering principles.
文摘In pronunciation teaching, learners may have difficulty when there is a ＂gap＂ in the phonemic system between L1 （the first or native language） and L2 （the second or foreign language）. In such a case, they tend to use their native language sounds in speaking the foreign language. Since some Chinese and English vowel sounds are easy to be confused, applying IPA cardinal vowels in the teaching of English pronunciation will help Chinese learners identify the difference between an English vowel sound and a Chinese vowel sound and thus enables them to make intelligible English speech sounds.
