The development of reading and writing ability in English are the major goals in College English Curriculum Requirements(2020).The paper discusses the importance of discourse coherence in teaching reading and writing....The development of reading and writing ability in English are the major goals in College English Curriculum Requirements(2020).The paper discusses the importance of discourse coherence in teaching reading and writing.Some parts from textbook Going Global(Elementary)are used as examples to discuss the issue.Coherence is very crucial in reading and writing process and some processing strategies are suggested to better learners’discourse understanding.The paper addresses the issue of local and global coherence and then proceed to analyze the teaching material form Going Global.It is emphasized that learners’consciousness about local and global coherence should be raised in both their reading and writing process.And some teaching implications and learning strategies are suggested based on the discussion.展开更多
Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives...Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor:one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.展开更多
文摘The development of reading and writing ability in English are the major goals in College English Curriculum Requirements(2020).The paper discusses the importance of discourse coherence in teaching reading and writing.Some parts from textbook Going Global(Elementary)are used as examples to discuss the issue.Coherence is very crucial in reading and writing process and some processing strategies are suggested to better learners’discourse understanding.The paper addresses the issue of local and global coherence and then proceed to analyze the teaching material form Going Global.It is emphasized that learners’consciousness about local and global coherence should be raised in both their reading and writing process.And some teaching implications and learning strategies are suggested based on the discussion.
文摘Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor:one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.
