Textbooks material is one of the important issues that are worthy to investigate in order to enrich student＇s engagement and interaction in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） classrooms. In this study, the author ...Textbooks material is one of the important issues that are worthy to investigate in order to enrich student＇s engagement and interaction in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） classrooms. In this study, the author argues that textbooks materials used in academic institutions may well take a significant part in generating an active environment in EEL classrooms. It is believed that more opportunities will be created for students to be more involved, active, and able to understand the content being addressed more effectively. Yet, by looking at the textbooks being utilised （at a university context where the author teaches）, one can notice that student＇s culture （Eastern） is to a large extent missing in these textbooks, most of these books instead represent dominantly ＂Western＂ culture namely American and British cultures. This can deafly be depicted by topics discussed, pictures, clothing, names, and many other issues portrayed in these textbooks. This study is an attempt to challenge and problematize such domination of Western cultures portrayed in the content of English textbooks used in academic institutions not merely within Saudi Arabia but also extended to other countries and nations in the world.展开更多
This paper,analyses how the Chinese writers borrowed the literary genre of detective fiction from the West,but also points out the"indigenous"features of the Chinese detective fiction during the late Qing an...This paper,analyses how the Chinese writers borrowed the literary genre of detective fiction from the West,but also points out the"indigenous"features of the Chinese detective fiction during the late Qing and early republic periods.Further,it examines why a few Chinese writers chose to reshape detective fiction-an imported literary genre-with these indigenous features.While earlier studies argue that the"old htterateurs"in modem China represented the conservative forces,I believe that these writers were in fact well aware of the impact of Western ideologies and intellectual trends on the Chinese society.Their preference of the indigenous,therefore,was not a bhnd choice but a conscious act of resistance.Unlike the"New Literature"writers'positive responses to Westem ideas,this group of writers treated Western ideas not as the way-to save the motherland.Rather,they viewed the"hegemony"of the empires with alarm,and resorted to a set of traditional Chinese cultural values for ways of precluding such hegemony.Their efforts of reshaping detective fiction by this means,I argue,sheds a new light on the cultural transformation of the Chinese society-and,more broadly,of the Asian societies-during this time.That is,such transformation figured not simply as the great triumph of the West over the Asian societies,but rather suggested a dynamic process of cultural collisions and re-creation.展开更多
文摘Textbooks material is one of the important issues that are worthy to investigate in order to enrich student＇s engagement and interaction in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） classrooms. In this study, the author argues that textbooks materials used in academic institutions may well take a significant part in generating an active environment in EEL classrooms. It is believed that more opportunities will be created for students to be more involved, active, and able to understand the content being addressed more effectively. Yet, by looking at the textbooks being utilised （at a university context where the author teaches）, one can notice that student＇s culture （Eastern） is to a large extent missing in these textbooks, most of these books instead represent dominantly ＂Western＂ culture namely American and British cultures. This can deafly be depicted by topics discussed, pictures, clothing, names, and many other issues portrayed in these textbooks. This study is an attempt to challenge and problematize such domination of Western cultures portrayed in the content of English textbooks used in academic institutions not merely within Saudi Arabia but also extended to other countries and nations in the world.
文摘This paper,analyses how the Chinese writers borrowed the literary genre of detective fiction from the West,but also points out the"indigenous"features of the Chinese detective fiction during the late Qing and early republic periods.Further,it examines why a few Chinese writers chose to reshape detective fiction-an imported literary genre-with these indigenous features.While earlier studies argue that the"old htterateurs"in modem China represented the conservative forces,I believe that these writers were in fact well aware of the impact of Western ideologies and intellectual trends on the Chinese society.Their preference of the indigenous,therefore,was not a bhnd choice but a conscious act of resistance.Unlike the"New Literature"writers'positive responses to Westem ideas,this group of writers treated Western ideas not as the way-to save the motherland.Rather,they viewed the"hegemony"of the empires with alarm,and resorted to a set of traditional Chinese cultural values for ways of precluding such hegemony.Their efforts of reshaping detective fiction by this means,I argue,sheds a new light on the cultural transformation of the Chinese society-and,more broadly,of the Asian societies-during this time.That is,such transformation figured not simply as the great triumph of the West over the Asian societies,but rather suggested a dynamic process of cultural collisions and re-creation.
