The present paper examines gender effects on the use of emotion vocabulary in SECCL.The study reveals both inter-group and intra-group differences in the use of English emotion words by the female and male Chinese EFL...The present paper examines gender effects on the use of emotion vocabulary in SECCL.The study reveals both inter-group and intra-group differences in the use of English emotion words by the female and male Chinese EFL learners,and the findings also show that Chinese learners use emotion vocabulary in ways different from native English speakers.The gender difference is attributed to the ways in which Chinese culture defines and values women and men in terms of emotion displaying.The paper suggests that learning English emotion words should be integrated with learning cultural meanings associated with them.展开更多
This paper addresses the issue of Chinese students＇ oral English skills in talking about Chinese culture from the perspective of conversation analysis. To examine their performance in this regard, group discussion da...This paper addresses the issue of Chinese students＇ oral English skills in talking about Chinese culture from the perspective of conversation analysis. To examine their performance in this regard, group discussion data in the classroom were collected for analysis. Their oral skills in talking about Chinese New Year and Christmas, a Western festival, were analyzed and compared to determine their oral performance in describing their native culture. Comments by two native English speakers on the students＇ performance are used to complement the conversation analysis. The results indicate that, compared with their performance regarding Christmas, the students were able to express a wider range of cultural connotations about Chinese New Year in English, but they used significantly fewer correct culturally-loaded words and phrases, and switched to Chinese much more frequently, suggesting unsatisfactory oral skills in describing Chinese culture.展开更多
文摘The present paper examines gender effects on the use of emotion vocabulary in SECCL.The study reveals both inter-group and intra-group differences in the use of English emotion words by the female and male Chinese EFL learners,and the findings also show that Chinese learners use emotion vocabulary in ways different from native English speakers.The gender difference is attributed to the ways in which Chinese culture defines and values women and men in terms of emotion displaying.The paper suggests that learning English emotion words should be integrated with learning cultural meanings associated with them.
文摘This paper addresses the issue of Chinese students＇ oral English skills in talking about Chinese culture from the perspective of conversation analysis. To examine their performance in this regard, group discussion data in the classroom were collected for analysis. Their oral skills in talking about Chinese New Year and Christmas, a Western festival, were analyzed and compared to determine their oral performance in describing their native culture. Comments by two native English speakers on the students＇ performance are used to complement the conversation analysis. The results indicate that, compared with their performance regarding Christmas, the students were able to express a wider range of cultural connotations about Chinese New Year in English, but they used significantly fewer correct culturally-loaded words and phrases, and switched to Chinese much more frequently, suggesting unsatisfactory oral skills in describing Chinese culture.
