Critique of TBLT in the Chinese Context

Task-based language teaching(TBLT) is an influential approach which prevails and thrives all over the world and is still favored by a number of teachers and researchers for its unparalleled advantages that overshadow the traditional ones. However, it still remains a question whether the foreign approach could be imported to China without modification and localized to adapt to Chinese educational background. This paper, aiming at answering this question, investigates the strengths and weaknesses of TBLT in the Chinese context at length.

Investigation on the Concept of Local Aesthetic Experience in Chinese Context

Aesthetic anthropology is a new paradigm of the modem aesthetic research of China. Professor Wang Jie and his research team put forward the concept of local aesthetic experience in the process of research. The concept is used to summarize and refer to the existing way and existing form of non-westem mainstream culture in aesthetic dimension under global context. Local aesthetic experience converges many important problems in the research on aesthetic anthropology

Transnational Perspectives on Ethnic Studies:Cross-System Society and the Problem of Adapting to the Chinese Context

This paper sorted out relevant debates on the proposition of adapting to the Chinese context,attempted to further develop the concept of"unity in diversity"by using the cross-system society and its movements,and redefined the"one"and"many"in Chinese society.The author pointed out that as a cross-system society,China is a living,inclusive and unifying civilization that has internalized traces of others as its own elements while maintaining its unique vitality.But as a result,a cross-system society is interrelated and mutually defined with cross-society system.

The Concept of Legal Practice in the Chinese Context

Legal practice comprises the normative activities of constructing and maintaining social order with the aim of achieving equity and justice. In terms of content, it can be divided into three categories： intellectual legal practice, normative legal practice, and applied legal practice. As an important factor supporting legal practice, legal theory has a complex interactive relationship with legal practice. The effect of legal theory on legal practice is realized through the intermediary, carrier and bridging functions of the rationality, wisdom and ideas of legal practice. Developing the concept of the ideal legal life is the inherent mission and method of legal practice thought.

THE TEACHING OF NON-RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN A CHINESE CONTEXT

This paper attacks the conservatism of grammar teaching in China.It takes the example of teachingnon-restrictive clauses in English and demonstrates that a communicative approach can and should beapplied even to such a linguistic subject.A procedure is suggested in which group work and problem-solving activities attempt to raise students’awareness of grammar problems and encourage them to findtheir own solutions.

Promote the All-round Development of China's Human Right Cause in the New Era——Summary of the Symposium on “Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and Adhering to the Chinese Path of Human Rights Development”

On November 8, 2022, the symposium on “Deeply Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20thCPC National Congress and Adhering to the Chinese Path of Human Rights Development” was held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies in Beijing. Focusing on “the leadership of the CPC and human rights development”, “adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of our times and human rights theories in contemporary China”, “the Chinese path to modernization and the new form of human rights civilization”, “Chinese human rights solutions and global human rights governance”, “making a better China’s story of advancing human rights and constructing human rights discourse system”, and other topics, the participants reached broad consensus after discussion, and the symposium achieved fruitful results.

A New Word Detection Method for Chinese Based on Local Context Information

Finding out out-of-vocabulary words is an urgent and difficult task in Chinese words segmentation. To avoid the defect causing by offline training in the traditional method, the paper proposes an improved prediction by partical match （PPM） segmenting algorithm for Chinese words based on extracting local context information, which adds the context information of the testing text into the local PPM statistical model so as to guide the detection of new words. The algorithm focuses on the process of online segmentatien and new word detection which achieves a good effect in the close or opening test, and outperforms some well-known Chinese segmentation system to a certain extent.

MAXIMIZING THE VALUE OF VIDEO IN ELT IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT

The advantages and possible limitations of using video in ELT are examined, and some suggestions for maximizing its value are put forward. 1. Introduction SINCE the 1980s, there have been significant developments in the field of English language teaching ELT) in China, the most remarkable of which is the integration of educational technology into ELT.

The Research on the Logic and Value of“Two Combinations”

Through the comprehensive analysis of the connotation and logic,inheritance and innovation and the value of social governance,and the dialectical relationship of“two combination”,the inheritance of the idea of Marxism,the inheritance of excellent traditional culture and the governance of contemporary society.

An evaluation of Chinese eco-city development based on daily lifestyle study:Taking Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city as a case study

After the rapid large-scale but rough development in China since 1978,environmental issues occurred at the same time.As a result,China started to pay attention to environmental protection and try to seek a way of decoupling economic growth and the environment.Eco-city is regarded as a solution widely supported by the central government.After learning from international experience,China has explored a distinctive way to develop eco-cities within the specific Chinese context.This paper aims to evaluate the development of Chinese eco-cities.Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is taken as a case study to analyze based on daily lifestyle of its residents.A total of 22 interviews,and three days of potential observations were collected in this study as a database.Summative content analysis is applied with 15 keywords and three categories.Policy suggestions are provided at the end aiming to overcome the current existing weakness.

Fostering a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation and the Chinafication of Tibetan Buddhism

The objective of fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is to establish the Chinese national identity,which is the symbol of a modern nation-state,for all Minzu in China;and the precondition of it is to define"China"and"Chinese people"with preciseness.For that sake,we must abolish both Han chauvinism and narrow-minded local ethnic chauvinism,and reaffirm the staunch belief that all 56 Minzu are inseparable parts of the Chinese nation and that all people of these 56 Minzu are Chinese people.To adapt Tibetan Buddhism to the Chinese context is not to sinicize Tibetan Buddhism,but to adapt it to the requirement for the development and progress of the Chinese nation in a new era,as well as to make it a fantastic catalyst for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.For the sake of it,we will not only make Tibetan Buddhism a crucial part of Chinese Buddhism,but also include Han and Tibetan Buddhism as the most important identity of Chinese Buddhism,so as to integrate Tibetan Buddhism,Han Buddhism,and Theravada Buddhism inside China and strengthen a sense of community for Chinese nation in China's Buddhist community,which will serve as an important part of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

SITUATION ANALYSIS AND NEEDS ANALYSIS IN CHINESE EFL CONTEXT:A CASE OF A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN SOUTH-WEST CHINA

Situation analysis and needs analysis are important tasks at the planning stage of curriculum design in most educational contexts, because they provide a basis for setting goals and objectives. Nevertheless, in Chinese EFL contexts, it is not uncommon that goal setting is managed around language outcomes which are prescribed by the teacher or teaching institution, without making reference to learners' needs and the larger context within which instruction takes place. This paper presents a piece of practical work by conducting a situation analysis and needs analysis in a senior high school in South-west China. In providing the rationale as well as the logistics and the outcomes of conducting the situation analysis and needs analysis, the paper attempts to illustrate a practical way to take account of learner factor and situational factors at the curriculum planning stage in Chinese EFL contexts, especially in the underdeveloped area of China.

Analysis of Reading Features and Strategies

In Chinese EFL context,reading course is considered as the most important way to acquire linguistic skills compared with other skills such as listening,speaking and writing.In university,the students whose majors are non-English need to take part in CET 4(College English Test Band 4)which is closely relevant to bachelor degree or a promising prospect if they are able to pass the test with a high score.Therefore,a large amount of time is devoted to reading by English learners,while what most of the teachers tend to do is focusing on drills of grammatical rules,sentence analyzing and word memorization,neglecting the part that the students actually have to apply in the real context.It should be noted that reading plays a vital role in the daily life,such as"to get information,to respond to curiosity about a topic,to follow instructions,to perform a task,for pleasure,amusement,and personal enjoyment;to keep in touch with friends and colleagues;to know what is happening in the world;and to find out when and where things are"Rivers&Temperley(1978:187).Additionally,readers can get enjoyment through reading,which can be embodied in various aspects such as reading stories,novels,or poems and so on.However,to some extent,reading has become a way to gain knowledge or pass examination for EFL learners.The common reading problems of the students in my context will be identified in this essay.Meanwhile,it is generally believed that most of the students have no motivation at all in terms of reading.How can reading be taught efficiently and effectively?Considering the features of the students in Chinese university context,what kind of approaches should be the most suitable?

A Study of the Effective Output Strategy of Hebei Red Culture in College English Teaching

As a part of Chinese culture,red culture plays an important role in politics,education,economy and culture of today's society.Because of the similarities and differences between Chinese culture and foreign culture,people's understanding and expression of things are different,and vocabulary in different languages also contains rich cultural connotations with different characteristics.In this paper,"red culture"was taken as an example,and the similarities and differences of its cultural meanings in English and Chinese were analyzed.This paper hopes that the instructor can make better use of cross-cultural factors in vocabulary teaching to help students familiarize themselves with and master all kinds of vocabulary with cultural characteristics.

Familiarity in Chinese and English Idiom Comprehension: An Event Related Potential Study from Chinese English Learners

Idioms have attracted great attention over recent decades. Nevertheless, controversies still remain in regard of the most plausible cognition mechanism for idiom comprehension, especially concerning non-Indo-European languages and second/foreign language users. Event Related Potential （ERP） experiments on proficient English learners whose native language was Mandarin Chinese were conducted to test the influences of idioms＇ familiarity on both Chinese and English （as foreign language） idiom comprehension. Data including accuracy rates, reaction time, and latency and peak amplitudes of N400 were recorded and analyzed, indicating that familiarity might play a significant role in idiom comprehension in both native and foreign languages. Further, idioms, should they have similar familiarity levels, may be easier to process in the native language （Chinese） than in the foreign language （English）.

How Would Preservice Teachers With Deeper Reflection Emerge as Teacher Leaders?

Purpose:This study aimed to identify the potential attributes of teacher leadership among preservice teachers with higher levels of reflection,especially in the Chinese context.Design/Approach/Methods:A mixed research method was adopted in this study.First,a quantitative research method was conducted to examine preservice teachers'reflection depth.The top I0%of the preservice teachers with higher levels of reflection were selected as the target respondents for comparison.Second,qualitative data analysis was conducted to identify potential attributes of emergent teacher leadership in these preservice teachers.Findings:This study identified five potential attributes of emergent teacher leadership among preservice teachers who showed deeper reflection depth.Additionally,this study identified how the unique attributes fit into preservice teachers'professional development in the Chinese context.Originality/Value:This study proposes a new development model to develop preservice teachers that emphasizes the role of continuous reflections in context for professional growth.This study holds implications for understanding the potential attributes of emergent teacher leadership among Chinese preservice teachers.Additionally,this study appeals to the importance of cultivating preservice teachers to practice teacher leadership during the teacher training stage to support them to become outstanding future teachers.

Fostering Professional Inquiry:A Report on the Sixth National Symposium on EFL Writing Research and Teaching in China

本文通过概述2008年秋季在北京召开的第六届全国英语写作教学与研究研讨会,分析了我国英语写作教学研究的现状和热点。本届研讨会的主要议题可以归纳为:(1)国内外二语写作研究现状;(2)写作教学;(3)写作学习者和中国英语;(4)写作评估和测试;(5)写作教师专业发展。本文最后根据会议情况分析了中国英语写作教学研究的发展趋势。

Holistic Innovation:An Emerging Innovation Paradigm

This paper systematically reviews the current typical innovation paradigms worldwide and their shortcomings.Based on eastern wisdom and best innovation practices,this paper introduces a new paradigm of innovation,holistic innovation(HI).It provides a definition and theoretical framework for HI,discusses its connotations,and summarizes the theoretical contribution and policy implications.HI is total and collaborative innovation driven by strategic vision.This new innovation paradigm is a complex of strategic innovation,collaborative innovation,total innovation,and open innovation,which reflects wisdom from the Chinese context and Eastern culture.The four core elements of holistic innovation,“strategic,”“total,”“open,”and“collaborative,”are inter-related with an organic integration with the helix of HI.HI is an original innovation paradigm that conforms to the needs of firms'technological innovation management in the strategic innovation era and supports the implementation of the Innovation-Driven Development Strategy.It also helps China's enterprises build global innovation leadership and improves national innovation ability.Finally,it optimizes the innovation policy design and action mindset to achieve global peace and sustainable development.

Job Satisfaction： Linking Perceived Organizational Support, Organizational Justice with Work Outcomes in China

This study develops and tests a full mediation model that examines the mediating role of job satisfaction in the Chinese context, based on a survey of 424 employees in three small and medium sized enterprises. Data analysis shows a good fit with the full mediation and all four classes of antecedents （i.e., perceived organizational support, procedural, distributive, and interactional justice）. Particularly, procedural justice contributes to the prediction of satisfaction. Job satisfaction is also shown to mediate most antecedent- consequence relationships, except the two between perceived organizational support （POS）--turnover and procedural justice--consequences. Furthermore, there are only four direct links, including POS to citizenship behaviors directed at individuals, distributive justice to turnover intention, interactional justice to citizenship behaviors directed at organizations and turnover. These direct links suggest that job satisfaction does not fully mediate the relationships.

Appraisal of the Production-Oriented Approach： An Introduction

The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, the writed states. He responds to POA from the perspective of an expert researcher and teacher of L2 writing. Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics ＆ Germanic, Slavic, Asian ＆ African Languages atMichigan State University, the writed states. She conceptualises POA as a useful method to address some issues in pre-service teacher development. Overall, the articles in this section are insightful and reader-friendly. They are not only useful for the development of POA in particular, but may also be valuable to a broad range of researchers as they touch upon pertaining issues, as well as emerging topics, in the field of applied linguistics. We therefore find it necessary to make them accessible to a wide readership.