Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is wort...Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is worth exploring the evolution of high school history textbook in Taiwan and its implications for national identity.As high school history textbooks witnessed numerous changes during the first decade of the 21st century,the following text aims to discuss the identity formation correlated with the reform among high school history textbooks in the corresponding period.展开更多
This paper reports how the polysemous word TAKE is treated in the junior high school textbooks in Japan and its semantic distributions. Also, it looks into the ways in which Japanese junior high school students actual...This paper reports how the polysemous word TAKE is treated in the junior high school textbooks in Japan and its semantic distributions. Also, it looks into the ways in which Japanese junior high school students actually use TAKE in their compositions and analyses its semantic distributions in their writings. This paper uses the BBC 500 Word essay compositions(BBC 500 words) to compare these compositions with the ones written by English native speakers. Comparing the different semantic distributions of the word TAKE in Japanese junior high school textbooks, Japanese students' compositions and BBC 500 words, it is clear that compositions in BBC 500 words have a better balance. This result suggests that the English native speaking children use TAKE to convey various meanings. Also the core meaning of TAKE is the highest among the three contexts under investigation. This paper suggests the textbooks should include many more various objects to enable students to learn to use them in various situations and the core meaning of TAKE should be presented in the textbooks more often. Furthermore, the semantic features of the polysemous words and their semiotic value in English should be introduced in the textbooks and taught in intentional ways.展开更多
文摘Teenage is the crucial period for forming national identity;during this time,education from school is a decisive factor of shaping one’s national identity,especially to those high school students.Therefore,it is worth exploring the evolution of high school history textbook in Taiwan and its implications for national identity.As high school history textbooks witnessed numerous changes during the first decade of the 21st century,the following text aims to discuss the identity formation correlated with the reform among high school history textbooks in the corresponding period.
文摘This paper reports how the polysemous word TAKE is treated in the junior high school textbooks in Japan and its semantic distributions. Also, it looks into the ways in which Japanese junior high school students actually use TAKE in their compositions and analyses its semantic distributions in their writings. This paper uses the BBC 500 Word essay compositions(BBC 500 words) to compare these compositions with the ones written by English native speakers. Comparing the different semantic distributions of the word TAKE in Japanese junior high school textbooks, Japanese students' compositions and BBC 500 words, it is clear that compositions in BBC 500 words have a better balance. This result suggests that the English native speaking children use TAKE to convey various meanings. Also the core meaning of TAKE is the highest among the three contexts under investigation. This paper suggests the textbooks should include many more various objects to enable students to learn to use them in various situations and the core meaning of TAKE should be presented in the textbooks more often. Furthermore, the semantic features of the polysemous words and their semiotic value in English should be introduced in the textbooks and taught in intentional ways.
