语言自我感与外语学习

研究语言自我感的产生原因和产生过程及对外语学习的影响,认识到第二语言自我感及用社会建构主义教学理论培养学习者第二语言自我感的重要性,有助于学生利用社会主义建构主义教学方法语言自我感的消极影响,培养积极有效的第二语言自我感。

播音主持有声语言形象感的音声创造

有声语言面向大众的传播过程具有群体性、言语交流与接受性、传播利益公共性等特征,传承着表达者的情感与思想,富含生理天赋和用声方法。播音主持有声语言的传播主体具有一定的创作自觉性。在不同的经济、文化转型时期,面对着社会变迁、时代更替所表现出的特点不尽相同,作为一项语言艺术性极强的工作,播音主持需要着重强调有声语言形象感的塑造。

语言学习求知欲:外语教育学研究的新议题

求知欲是语言学习中重要的积极心理因素。深入系统地梳理语言学习求知欲的发展脉络,深挖该领域的研究特点,能够进一步丰富外语教育学研究成果,为开展培养语言学习求知欲的教学实践提供有益参考。基于此,本文采用范围综述的方法对语言学习求知欲的实证研究从理论基础、研究主题和研究方法三个角度进行了梳理和总结,并对未来研究进行了展望。

声乐学习中几种重要的技巧“感觉”

"感觉"是声乐学习中感受和获取种种技巧、方法的最直接、最重要的渠道。在声乐演唱过程中,将重要的技巧"感觉化":将"声门挡气"技巧寓于"搬重物"的感觉中、将"打开喉咙"技巧寓于"打哈欠"的感觉中、将"头腔共鸣"技巧寓于"面罩"的感觉中、将"字声结合"的技巧寓于"语言表达"的感觉中,可以使复杂的机理技巧变得简单和直观,使技巧的训练过程更易于掌握运用、富于乐趣、融合情感。

简析华德福学校的儿童语言教育观

儿童凭借语言,学会表达个人想法,为身边的事物命名,与他人交流,开辟与周围世界相互联系的途径。正是由于语言的重要作用,华德福学校在理论和实践层面进行了大量探索,主要包括以童话故事为主要取材,用富有艺术性的方法进行教学,创设易于儿童模仿的语言环境,强调培养儿童的语言感和提高教师的语言表达等。这些儿童语言教育理念能为我国当前的教育改革提供借鉴。

翻——论严歌苓的小说创作手为苍凉覆手为繁华

作为海外华人作家中最具影响力的作家之一,严歌苓享誉世界文坛.其小说作品不仅在国内有一大批忠实的读者,而且在国外也非常畅销.文坛研究严歌苓的学者也不少,特别是近几年随着严歌苓小说在国内外畅销,中外文坛对她的研究也更加多.综合看来,目前国内对严歌苓的研究多是从单个作品着手,或是分析其作品的结构,叙事技巧,语言风格、辞格运用;或者是从内容着手研究其作品所蕴含的人性关怀、批判与反思;或者是从弗洛伊德精神分析学出发,分析大时代下女性的人格;或者整体上从跨民族文化视野的角度分析严歌苓的文学创作.本篇论文结合各学者对严歌苓小说的研究。

加强语文朗读教学 全面提高学生素质

全面提高学生素质,培养学生创新精神是学校教育的重要任务。这种教育主要是通过各科教学和各种活动来实现的。其中,语文教学是重要途径之一。在语文教学中,加强朗读教学更加具有突出的意义。

浅谈中学语文教学中的审美教育

中学语文教学应大力提倡审美教育,深入挖掘语文教材中包含的自然美、情感美、语言美等审美因素,使语文课堂充满活力多姿多彩。

Investigating Affordance in Technology-Enriched Language Learning Environment Through Exploring Students’Perezhivanija

Preceding works tend to explicate affordance through supposing what is happening here and now.They seldom relate it to actual social,diachronic activities,such as foreign language learning.To tackle this issue,this study explores how students actualize affordances in technology-enriched language learning environment(TELLE)by examining their perezhivanija(lived and emotional experience),a term borrowed from sociocultural theory.Because an individual’s social life is a developing process or a perezhivanie2,it is necessary to base the research in a dynamic development of language learning to figure out how the affordances are actualized.Narrative interviews were adopted to collect data from three Chinese college students who learn English as a foreign language in a Northeastern university in China.The results showed that due to the students’different past perezhivanija in English learning,their present interpretations of the perceived affordances in TELLE varied.This influenced hugely in their actions taken during their English learning in college to actualize the affordances.The findings indicated that the actualization of affordances is historical,dynamic and developmental instead of static.It does not lie in the autonomy of the students or the teachers,but in the institutional and cultural legitimacy of technology use in student’s social life.The paper contributes to the application of affordance theory in foreign language learning and provides implications to language teaching practice in TELLE.

Writing Haiku in a Second Language： Perceptions, Attitudes, and Emotions of Second Language Learners

The aim of the current study is to discuss the value of poetry writing in an L2 （second language） by investigating perceptions, attitudes, and emotions of 20 EFL （English as a Foreign Language） college freshmen regarding writing Japanese poetry, haiku in English. This paper first discussed issues and uses of literature in L2 contexts and addressed the current empirical inquiry into L2 haiku writing as a method for L2 learning. The study was designed as a qualitative research which investigated the participants＇ reflection on writing L2 haikus for six weeks in an EFL college writing course. The data obtained was analyzed by using the coding system and showed that writing haiku in the target language was a challenging but valuable task for L2 learning among the EFL students. Especially haiku composition allowed them to develop their L2 linguistic awareness

A Study on Chinese English Leamers＇ Use of Emotion Words

Most educated Chinese take English as an important communication tool and the language has been increasingly frequently used in all walks of life in the country. This paper is to examine the use of English emotion words on the target group of English learners in China. The study is designed to find out the relationship between the use of emotion words and such relevant variables as language proficiency, gender, and age. The results demonstrate that the use of emotion words is significantly linked to the level of proficiency as well as gender. Age is found to have slight effect on the use of emotion words. The study also reveals that more positive emotion words are produced than negative ones in the speech. Based on the major findings, some implications and suggestions are offered： Firstly, English learners in China are expected to improve their language proficiency, particularly that of listening and speaking. Secondly, they are supposed to enhance their culture awareness of English by means of exposing themselves to as much authentic language as possible.

Context-Aware Service IVlodes in the Cloud Computing Environment

This paper discussed the differences of context-aware service between the cloud computing environment and the traditional service system.Given the above differences,the paper subsequently analyzed the changes of context-aware service during preparation,organization and delivery,as well as the resulting changes in service acceptance of consumers.Because of these changes,the context-aware service modes in the cloud computing environment change are intelligent,immersive,highly interactive,and real-time.According to active and responded service,and authorization and non-authorized service,the paper drew a case diagram of context-aware service in Unified Modeling Language(UML) and established four categories of context-aware service modes.

Motivational Practices in Foreign Language Teaching:From the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory

This quantitative-oriented study investigates junior middle school EFL teachers’beliefs about motivational practices in the language teaching process.Grounded in self-determination theory,the study examined teachers’beliefs in three basic psychological needs(relatedness,competence and autonomy)and the effect of their teaching experience on these beliefs.Data were obtained from 84 Chinese junior middle school English teachers through a questionnaire.Results suggested that teachers recognized motivational practices for relatedness and competence satisfaction while showing relatively low recognition of a few motivating practices for autonomy satisfaction.Teaching experience was found to have no influence on teachers’conception of needs-related motivational practices.Findings reveal that traditional activities like collective lesson preparations may have a negative influence on teachers’beliefs about motivational practices.They also present the necessity for adjustments on educational regulations,and for modern professional training to help teachers understand students’basic psychological needs,and to encourage new ideas to bolster students’intrinsic motivation for language learning.

A Qualia Structure Approach to Nominal Polysemy

Nominal polysemy is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural languages. How to eliminate the ambiguity caused by polysemous nominals is one of the major concerns in semantics. Drawing on Generative Lexicon Theory, this paper addresses the interpretation of nominal polysemy and attempts to reveal the different meanings of a polysemous nominal from four aspects of its qualia structure, namely, constitutive, formal, telic, and agentive. It is argued that a qualia structure analysis of a noun helps specify its precise meaning in a certain context, hence eliminating the ambiguity it may probably give rise to

Packaging design under Traditional Cultural Perspective --cultural wedding gifts in China

Chinese traditional culture is a valuable asset, and we must continue to inherit and carry forward the fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation. This paper discusses the impact of packaging design in aspects of colors, graphics, materials, one by one. Color is the most direct visual language, giving a deep impression. The use of traditional patterns can reflect the national spirit and national culture. People can also generate intimacy, affecting the consumer＇ s desire to purchase. The national characteristic of the goods has a strong aesthetic characteristic, can reflect national pride. Traditional culture input a lot of fresh blood into China＇ s packaging design, with the combination of modem packaging. China＇ s Marriage is formed in a long historical and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation; its source can be traced back several hundred thousand years ago. But the wedding industry rises in recent decades, with the rapid social development of new era, commercial activities have become increasingly frequent, wedding gift packaging design requirements have been increased from the basic material needs to spiritual needs. I think if the wedding gift wrapping design wants to be competitive on the market; it needs to create a new personal design philosophy.

Saudi Speakers＇ Perception of the English Bilabial Stops/b/and/p/

Languages differ in their phoneme inventories. Some phonemes exist in more than one language but others exist in relatively few languages. More specifically, English Language has some sounds that Arabic does not have and vice versa. This paper focuses on the perception of the English bilabial stops/b/and/p/in contrast to the perception of the English alveolar stops/t/and/d/by some Saudi linguists who have been speaking English for more than six years and who are currently in an English speaking country, Australia. This phenomenon of perception of the English bilabial stops/b/and/p/will be tested mainly by virtue of minimal pairs and other words that may better help to investigate this perception. The paper uses some minimal pairs in which the bilabial and alveolar stops occur initially and finally. Also, it uses some verbs that end with the suffix/-ed/, but this/-ed/suffix is pronounced [t] or [d] when preceded by /p/ or /b/ respectively. Notice that [t] and [d] are allophones of the English past tense morpheme/-ed/（for example, Fromkin, Rodman, ＆ Hyams, 2007）. The pronunciation of the suffix as It] and [d] works as a clue for the subjects to know the preceding bilabial sound.

Development and Validation of a Test Measuring Language Analytic Ability for Chinese FL learners:A Rasch-Based Pilot Study

This study reports the development, piloting and initial validation of a test measuring language analytic ability - one foreign language aptitude component for Chinese learners of foreign languages （FL）. A test with 50 items was constructed and administered to 53 third-year English majors. Rasch analyses showed that the subtest of inductive language learning ability was too easy. After removing misfitting items, the reduced grammatical sensitivity subtest showed satisfactory psychometric properties. The Rasch measures of the students＇ grammatical sensitivity were also found to be correlated significantly with their TEM-4 scores and their English reading grades, thus providing further evidence for the validity of the this subtest.

A PERCEPTUAL STUDY ON MANDARIN TONES BY NATIVE KAM SPEAKERS IN RONGJIANG

This paper aims at investigating the Mandarin tone perception of native Kam speakers in Rongjiang area through the categorical perception experiment,and comparing with the results of the native Mandarin speakers.The results show that the native Kam speakers are able to differentiate phonemic categories among the four Mandarin tones in pairs at the linguistic level.At the behavioral level,the tone perception of T1-T2,T1-T3(T3 as baseline),T1-T4,T2-T4 and T3-T4(T3 as baseline)continua is shown to be categorical,but the degree of categorization is significantly lower than that of the Mandarin speakers.In T1-T3(T1 as baseline),T2-T3 and T3-T4(T4 as baseline)continua,the kam speakers fail to establish categorical perception,exhibiting continuous perception instead.The results indicate that complex tone system of the Kam language does not facilitate the categorical perception of Mandarin tones by Kam speakers.

Exploring University ESL/EFL Teachers' Emotional Well-Being and Emotional Regulation in the United States, Japan and Austria

Teacher well-being has been shown to play a central role in the quality of teaching and student achievement(Day & Gu, 2009;Klusmann, Kunter, Trautwein, Lüdtke, & Baumert, 2008). However,the teaching profession is currently in crisis as it faces record rates of burnout and attrition(Borman & Dowling, 2008;Hong, 2010;Lovewell, 2012), including stressors specific to the changing nature of foreign language teaching(Hiver & Dornyei, 2015;Wieczorek, 2016) and to higher education(Kinman & Wray, 2013). This study seeks to understand how language teachers perceive of and experience their emotional well-being and what strategies they employ to manage it. Through a series of 12 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with ESL/EFL tertiary-level teachers in the United States, Japan and Austria, we explore a range of contexts examining how participants perceive of factors that add to or detract from their emotional well-being, the challenges and joys these teachers face in their professional and personal lives, and the most salient emotional regulation strategies that they employ to manage their emotions.