从国外教学翻译法反观我国大学英语教学

教学翻译法在国外的外语教学界的地位几经沉浮。随着21世纪应用语言学和翻译学理论的不断发展和完善,人们再次以新的目光审视和评价这种教学方法,探讨在理解翻译本质并有一个合理的理论框架指导的前提下,如何适当掌握其在课堂中的运用,使其能有效促进外语学习中听、说、读、写四项技能的提高。借鉴国外研究成果,针对中国国情,我国研究者在大学英语的教学翻译法的改革探索中,也提出了提高大学生外语能力的指导性建议。

论高职英语教学引进交际法

该文以高等职业教育的英语教学为对象 ,根据高职英语教学的现状 ,将语法翻译法教学和交际法教学进行对比 。

谈语法翻译法与交际法的有效结合

大学英语教学改革不仅是思维观念、教学内容的改革,教学方法的改革也是十分必要的。文中提出将语法翻译法和交际法结合起来是一种有效的教学法选择的论点。分析了两种教学法的四个不同特征,从三个方面阐述了两者结合的途径。

翻译法教学与英语同义语思维研究——大学公共英语教学的经验记录和分析报告

本文从系统论的观点出发,系统分析了中学至大学时期学生英语思维障碍产生的原因——翻译法教学对大学英语教学的影响,将大学阶段英语教学看作是对大学生英语思维能力的培养过程,而英语同义语思维在这个过程中起着重要作用,它可以克服翻译法英语教学的弊端,减少学生英语语言心理障碍和逻辑思维障碍,纠正学生以汉语翻译为理解英语的手段这种错误做法和错误思维模式,以达到提高大学生英语思维能力和应用能力的目的。

The Role of Non-verbal Behavior of Teachers in Providing Students Corrective Feedback and Their Consequences

Considering the primary focus of corrective feedback literature on verbal-correction provided by teachers and lack of attention to the role of other forms of corrective feedback in FL （foreign language） classroom interaction, this paper demonstrates how essential teachers＇ non-verbal communication and stance display are in making students＇ errors noticeable for them by providing samples from videotaped data. The findings in this study provide insights into the use of non-verbal behavior in providing students with corrective feedback. This study shows that research dealing only with verbal corrections provided by FL teachers cannot fully define the classroom interaction in terms of teachers＇ use of error correction techniques and student notification and uptake.

A study on pragmatic failure in cross-cultural communication

Through analyzing and comparing the anecdotes of pragmatic failure in cross-cultural communication from the aspects of lexicon, syntax and discourse, some pragmatic strategies are suggested in intercultural communication. To improve learners＇ cultural awareness and communicative competence, a cultural-linguistic approach in foreign language teaching should be adopted.

A generic analysis of English Research Article abstracts and the use of modal verbs for financial economics

This paper is a generic study of schematic structures and the use of modal verbs of 50 English Research Article （RA） abstracts. With Bhatia＇s （1990） model as the framework, three other move patterns were obtained besides the normal move order. The density of modal verbs varies greatly from move to move with significant differences in the frequency of occurrence in different moves. The use of modal verbs is much more move-determined than discipline-determined.

An Analysis of Errors in College English Writing in China

This paper first explores the importance and significance of college English writing in China, then the current problems and the main reasons in teaching Chinese college students. The author classifies the main errors that Chinese college students always commit in detail, gives the analysis of errors referring to the error analysis theory, puts forward the principles and methods that both Chinese teachers and Chinese college students can use, finally talks about the analytical significance and how to improve Chinese college students＇ writing abilities.

Traditional and Computer-Based Evaluation of Preschoolers＇ Oral Language in Greek A Review of the Literature

The purpose of this study is to examine and present the procedures and the tools that are described in the literature for observing preschool children＇s communication competence. Informal and formal standardised testing activities are included and a distinction is made on traditional and computer-based screening and diagnosis. The results of study illustrate the current trends of the literature and discuss the possibility of the computer-based screening and diagnosis to partially make up for the expert-personnel shortage

Politicizing the queue： The social, political and cultural symbolism of hair in Qing dynasty and young republican China

The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.

An Approach to Assertive and Non-assertive Epistemic Modality in Virginia Woolf＇s Essays

This study entails a first approach to epistemic modality in Woolf＇s essays. In particular, we will distinguish between assertive and non-assertive epistemic modality. Woolf uses assertive epistemic modality when transmitting her criticism to, sometimes, women＇s inferiority condition in history, revealing Woolf＇s more confident stance. These markers are different from those used in more ＂gentle＂ themes related to reviewing an author and her work. In this second case, non-assertive epistemic modality is more frequent. Being less harsh towards an author＇s surroundings and her literary production, Woolf＇s stance proves less self-assured. The corpus consists of 10 short essays. We also refer to her longer essays A Room of One＇s Own （1929） and Three Guineas 0938）. They were selected bearing in mind their subject-matter. Half of them deal with literature and women writers, their lives and works; the other half ones also have to do with women-related topics, but referring to their position in history and their difficulties to undertake, for example, a literary career. Some concluding remarks indicate the predominance of non-assertive epistemic modality in relation to an intersubjective reading of her texts. This reading favours the inclusion of her audience in her commentary about women writing.

Teaching of English-Chinese translation to non-English-majors

Translation takes an important role in communication, whereas in the English-Chinese translation teaching for non-English-majors in colleges, it is ignored completely due to too much attention to listening, speaking, reading and writing, the paper suggests some feasible approaches to translation teaching and to improving students translation ability by analyzing students＇ mistakes in translation and the conditions of classroom translation teaching.

Tess of the D＇Urbervilles is the victim of poverty： Analyzing Tess＇s tragedy from the perspective of Marxist literary theories

This paper is intended to analyze Tess＇s tragedy from the perspective of economy based on Marxist literary theories. The Industrial Revolution with its impact disintegrated the traditional English agriculture, undermined the patriarchal system, and impoverished the peasants to the core. Economic factor is a decisive element which frames Tess＇s tragedy. Poverty is closely connected with Tess＇s two ＂falls＂. It is poverty that triggers and fulfils the tragedy.

Interlanguage pragmatics study of indirect complaint among Japanese ESL learners

This interlanguage pragmatics study of linguistic expressions of affect focuses on how Japanese learners of English may express themselves in an affect-laden speech act of indirect complaint. The English as a Second Language （ESL） learners＇ data are compared with the baseline data of native speakers of Japanese （J J） and American English （AA）. The functions of linguistic expressions of affect are classified into intensifiers and specifiers and further breakdown is made in terms of lexical and morpho-syntactic variables. Some major findings include the ESL learners＇ negative transfer from First Language （L1） Japanese into Second Language （L2） by using dislocation and the adversative passive structure, while simultaneously using hedges and aggressive words. Their avoidance of such expressions of affect as hyperbole and curse words can be partially attributed to insufficient vocabulary in L2 English. Conversely, they make an excessive and conscious effort to avoid using the Historical Present （HP） in order to match the tense, which can be interpreted as a sign of hypercorrection of the linguistic specific features in the L2. The paper sheds light on a new area of the linguistic affect as shown by the Asian ESL learners whose first languages are significantly different from their L2 English.

The Need of Improvement of Humanism in Education

This paper introduces the definition of humanism and its different embodiment in westem countries and China, especially its embodiment in education. Comparing the different teaching methods between westem countries and China, it mentions the need of improvement on some aspects of education in China. The full development and potential of students are emphasized. Its purpose is to set teachers think about the appropriate ways of teaching in the future.

Transcendence of traditional melodrama A brief analysis on Lillian Hellman＇s The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman is a leading figure in 20th century American theatre. Due to the intensity of feeling and the general theme of good vs. evil, her plays are tagged with ＂melodrama＂. However, by examining one of her masterpieces The Little Foxes, it is revealed that Lillian Hellman transcends the confmes of traditional melodrama by combining the complexity of real life into the pretense of representation, thus making her play forcefully believable.

Struggling With Sibilants： Do English Speakers Use Acceptable Alternative Tongue Placements to Pronounce/s/and/z/？

Textbooks on phonology and on teaching ESL （English as a Second Language） often present the place of articulation of the sibilant/s/and its voiced counterpart/z/as a settled matter. The/s/and/z/are described and listed in phonological charts as ＂alveolar fricatives＂, meaning that the tongue is raised and the apex approaches the alveolar ridge. Those teaching pronunciation or remediating speech problems often use these descriptions by the IPA （International Phonetic Association） as models for teaching these phonemes. A number of linguists and instructors, however, have suggested that an acceptable/s/and/z/sound can be produced in English by other means This study attempted to determine the prevalence of the acceptable alternative placements for the/s/and/z/sounds in a sample of 50 English-speaking university students. Results revealed that 64% of participants used alternate tongue positions to that described in the literature as standard. Implications for speech pathology and ESL instruction are discussed.

Analyzing the micro coherence in English writing and implications for the teaching of English writing

Based on LSA＇s （Latent Semantic Analysis） measuring textual coherence and Halliday and Hasan＇s cohesive concepts and their categorization of cohesive devices, this paper analyzes coherent relatedness and cohesive devices of 100 Chinese students＇ English writings. The results indicate that （1） LSA is proved to be an objective and appropriate method in measuring the textual coherence, and （2） close attention should be paid to the cultivation of textual coherence, which will be of significance to the teaching of English writing. Finally, the paper provides some suggestions for college English writing.

Transformation of traditional vocabulary exercises into collaborative writing activity

In the reading course, especially the so-called intensive reading course or integrative English reading course, there are some vocabulary exercises which intend to consolidate the active vocabulary emerging in the reading passages. Mostly, these exercises are in the form of blank-filling or rewriting sentences with the words given. The problem with such exercises lies in the de-contextualization of the sentences. On the one hand, without the proper context, it is not easy for students to fill in the blanks, even though they know the meanings of the words. To finish the exercises, most students have to resort to the teacher＇s reference book for help. On the other hand, students will forget the words soon after they have finished the exercises for lack of the context to aid their recalling of the vocabulary. The author therefore finds that doing such exercises in class is unproductive and time-consuming. In order to solve this problem and make the vocabulary exercises more productive, the author attempts to reform the traditional exercises by transforming them into collaborative writing activities. Students are required to work in groups to write a short passage with the words given. After a 2-year practice, the author has concluded that the collaborative writing activities not only help students learn to use the words in a discourse, but also offer the opportunity to learn interdependently and help each other. Students have learnt to negotiate meanings in the course of the activity, which is a necessary skill in their daily life. Moreover, they have learnt to monitor their production in the course of revision and edition.

Perplexity and growth： An analysis on the initiation theme of Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen is a second generation Chinese American writer, and she has drawn much attention from American readers and critics. Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen is the canon of American initiation stories. The novel concerns the growth experience of the second generation of Chinese American, the protagonist Mona Chang. The paper analyses the initiation theme of the novel from the perspectives of puzzlement, epiphany and guide in the journey of Mona＇s growth.