By using ZHANG Qiao's method for identifying fuzzy words (1998), the present paper makes a statistic analysis of fuzzy words appearing in about 43,000 words of 6 academic research articles in management science. A ...By using ZHANG Qiao's method for identifying fuzzy words (1998), the present paper makes a statistic analysis of fuzzy words appearing in about 43,000 words of 6 academic research articles in management science. A distribution curve of fuzzy words in management research articles is drawn in accordance with the structures of the articles, and it is proved to be reasonable for tile discourse function of each section. Furthermore, the fuzzy words are divided into three categories and eleven sub-categories, including Category Ⅰ-fuzzy words, Category Ⅱ-fuzzy words+non-fuzzy part / non-fuzzy part+fuzzy words, Category Ⅲ-approximators+fuzzy words. Distribution of fuzzy words varies in different sections of research articles in management science, because of different communicative purposes or discourse functions. Introduction section and Conclusion section have a higher occurrence rate of fuzzy words than Abstract section and Methodology and Data section.展开更多
It is a trend that theories of metaphor are applied in the field of foreign language teactung. It is also necessary for foreign language teaching to enrich itself by adopting of metaphor. Based on metaphors' definiti...It is a trend that theories of metaphor are applied in the field of foreign language teactung. It is also necessary for foreign language teaching to enrich itself by adopting of metaphor. Based on metaphors' definition and functions, this paper looks into the methods of improving and cultivating on language learners' metaphor awareness.展开更多
This paper reviews three main perspectives of chunk analyses: traditional phraseological, psycholinguistic, and corpus linguistic perspectives. Traditional phraseological perspective focuses on syntactic and semantic...This paper reviews three main perspectives of chunk analyses: traditional phraseological, psycholinguistic, and corpus linguistic perspectives. Traditional phraseological perspective focuses on syntactic and semantic aspects of chunks and its most important criteria of chunk identifications and classifications are compositionality and frozenness/fixedness. Psycholinguistic perspective focuses on the psychological salience of chunks and its most important criterion of identifying a chunk is whether it is processed as a whole unit. Corpus linguistic perspective focuses on frequencies of chunks and its identification of chunks is done on the basis of frequency counts. All of the three perspectives have tapped into the phenomenon of multi-word combinations and yielded fruitful findings on the use of chunks in aspects of quantitative, syntactic, semantic, functional, and psychological features; however, each has their pros and cons展开更多
This paper examines the problem of inefficient reading comprehension with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating grammatical information into lexicon teachi...This paper examines the problem of inefficient reading comprehension with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating grammatical information into lexicon teaching. The underlying idea is that working memory, whose core characteristic is its severely limited capacity, is of vital importance to language comprehension, and that the process of lexical retrieval from the permanent memory is much easier than the process of working our way through a syntactic structure. Therefore a hypothesis is formulated that to purposely increase the readers' awareness of storing grammatical information in the lexicon will bring about an increased speed, hence improved reading performance. Through careful design of the experiment, the writer proves that this method can lighten the burden on working memory, which consequently brings about significantly improved reading comprehension.展开更多
This paper illustrates the language-learning-supporting features of a monolingual English learner's dictionary, the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners ( 2002 ) , a product of " a learner-based phil...This paper illustrates the language-learning-supporting features of a monolingual English learner's dictionary, the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners ( 2002 ) , a product of " a learner-based philosophy. " It gives a detailed mapping of the user-friendliness of the dictionary in question and points out that MEDAL is helpful to learners of English mainly because it answers both their decoding and encoding needs. To further explore the potential of a good learner's dictionary, the current author also discusses the role of an English teacher in helping his/her students to make better use of the dictionary, and consequently ensures the supportiveness of MEDAL in the language learning process.展开更多
This study investigated the resetting process of the articles' parameters by Chinese English learners with a Forced Choice Elicitation Task on the basis of the Article Choice Parameter and Fluctuation Hypothesis prop...This study investigated the resetting process of the articles' parameters by Chinese English learners with a Forced Choice Elicitation Task on the basis of the Article Choice Parameter and Fluctuation Hypothesis proposed by Ionin, Ko and Wexler (2004). It was found that Chinese English learners fluctuate between definiteness and specificity, the two parameter-settings of articles. Our findings are consistent with the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Their performance can be accounted for under the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology. The difficulty in article acquisition lies in the fact that Chinese English learners can not easily identify the correct features in the specification of syntactic terminal nodes as well as the vocabulary items, but they possess the syntactic knowledge and they can access the definiteness parameter setting with enough L2 input. Chinese English learners' interlanguage syntax is not impaired and UG full access is supported.展开更多
文摘By using ZHANG Qiao's method for identifying fuzzy words (1998), the present paper makes a statistic analysis of fuzzy words appearing in about 43,000 words of 6 academic research articles in management science. A distribution curve of fuzzy words in management research articles is drawn in accordance with the structures of the articles, and it is proved to be reasonable for tile discourse function of each section. Furthermore, the fuzzy words are divided into three categories and eleven sub-categories, including Category Ⅰ-fuzzy words, Category Ⅱ-fuzzy words+non-fuzzy part / non-fuzzy part+fuzzy words, Category Ⅲ-approximators+fuzzy words. Distribution of fuzzy words varies in different sections of research articles in management science, because of different communicative purposes or discourse functions. Introduction section and Conclusion section have a higher occurrence rate of fuzzy words than Abstract section and Methodology and Data section.
文摘It is a trend that theories of metaphor are applied in the field of foreign language teactung. It is also necessary for foreign language teaching to enrich itself by adopting of metaphor. Based on metaphors' definition and functions, this paper looks into the methods of improving and cultivating on language learners' metaphor awareness.
文摘This paper reviews three main perspectives of chunk analyses: traditional phraseological, psycholinguistic, and corpus linguistic perspectives. Traditional phraseological perspective focuses on syntactic and semantic aspects of chunks and its most important criteria of chunk identifications and classifications are compositionality and frozenness/fixedness. Psycholinguistic perspective focuses on the psychological salience of chunks and its most important criterion of identifying a chunk is whether it is processed as a whole unit. Corpus linguistic perspective focuses on frequencies of chunks and its identification of chunks is done on the basis of frequency counts. All of the three perspectives have tapped into the phenomenon of multi-word combinations and yielded fruitful findings on the use of chunks in aspects of quantitative, syntactic, semantic, functional, and psychological features; however, each has their pros and cons
文摘This paper examines the problem of inefficient reading comprehension with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating grammatical information into lexicon teaching. The underlying idea is that working memory, whose core characteristic is its severely limited capacity, is of vital importance to language comprehension, and that the process of lexical retrieval from the permanent memory is much easier than the process of working our way through a syntactic structure. Therefore a hypothesis is formulated that to purposely increase the readers' awareness of storing grammatical information in the lexicon will bring about an increased speed, hence improved reading performance. Through careful design of the experiment, the writer proves that this method can lighten the burden on working memory, which consequently brings about significantly improved reading comprehension.
文摘This paper illustrates the language-learning-supporting features of a monolingual English learner's dictionary, the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners ( 2002 ) , a product of " a learner-based philosophy. " It gives a detailed mapping of the user-friendliness of the dictionary in question and points out that MEDAL is helpful to learners of English mainly because it answers both their decoding and encoding needs. To further explore the potential of a good learner's dictionary, the current author also discusses the role of an English teacher in helping his/her students to make better use of the dictionary, and consequently ensures the supportiveness of MEDAL in the language learning process.
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文摘This study investigated the resetting process of the articles' parameters by Chinese English learners with a Forced Choice Elicitation Task on the basis of the Article Choice Parameter and Fluctuation Hypothesis proposed by Ionin, Ko and Wexler (2004). It was found that Chinese English learners fluctuate between definiteness and specificity, the two parameter-settings of articles. Our findings are consistent with the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Their performance can be accounted for under the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology. The difficulty in article acquisition lies in the fact that Chinese English learners can not easily identify the correct features in the specification of syntactic terminal nodes as well as the vocabulary items, but they possess the syntactic knowledge and they can access the definiteness parameter setting with enough L2 input. Chinese English learners' interlanguage syntax is not impaired and UG full access is supported.