USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN AN ESP CLASS

IntroductionThe need for ESP English teaching for Specific Purposes for non-English majors has long beenrecognized in China.However,it has developed slowly,especially in non-key universities.This is duenot only to a lack of teachers who are good at both English and a particular subject and the lack of suitabletextbooks:it is also due to the lack of effective approaches to motivate and orientate students towards thereal goal of ESP training.The goal of ESP training,according to the national syllabus,is to enable students to read authenticmaterials in their fields,at an appropriate speed and with adequate understanding.They should be able touse English as a tool to get information in their specific areas.

The Importance of Simulating Real Life Listening in the English Class

This paper aims to explore and present the significance of the main features of real life listening in the English classroom teaching. The authentic material is more efficient for English learners to improve their listening capability.

Applying Literature to ELT

Literature is no longer a frightening word to English language learner. Interactive teaching methods and attractive activities can help motivating Chinese university English learners. This essay will first elaborate the reasons to use literature in ELT (English Language Teaching) class and how to apply literature to ELT class.

USING AUTHENTIC LISTENING MATERIALS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS

This paper argues for the need for authentic listening materials in the ELT classroom in China,discussing the selection of those materials,and their adaptation for classroom use,whilst outlinig theirconstraints.

The Legacy of Alois Riegl: Material Authenticity of the Monument in the Digital Age

The Austrian art historian Alois Riegl(1858-1905)revolutionised the European concept of the monu­ment and paved the way towards the codification of the historicity of artefacts at the international level.Today,conservation work and relevant terminology still build upon the principles first outlined in his work Der moderne Denkmalkultus(1903)more than a hundred years ago.And yet,modern information/communication technologies have long challenged the idea of‘age value’(Alterswert),of a monument possessing value simply because it shows‘signs of age’(Altersspuren),through their ability to digitally recreate historical architecture in its original form and thereby to transcend the boundaries of time and space.This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities for monument preservation in the 21st century in the light of Riegl’s thoughts on how to perceive(‘visualise’)the past.It investigates the validity of Riegl’s theories in the context of today’s virtual reality/ies at a theoretical level,and their potential for advancement in preservation theory,expanding on historical thoughts rooted in 18th and 19th century preservation theories.By analysing Riegl’s commemorative values,stratigraphic picturing of history’s mate­rial debris,and fear of formlessness,this paper explores digitisation as the driving force for change in attitude from traditional,restrictive thinking to a modern way of thinking which is receptive to new technological developments,including,for example,exploring augmented and virtual realities as a means of achieving the sensory aesthetic ex­perience required by age value.

Italian perspective on the planned preventive conservation of architectural heritage

This paper tells us a complex story on the historic evolution of preventive conser vation of architectural heritage in Italy.Firstly,it introduces Cesare Brandi's Theory of Resto ration,pointing out the peculiar sense of the word Restoration in Brandi's system other than the common sense in the international discourse,the limits of Brandi's theory to architectural conservation and his prophecy on preventive restoration.Then it talks about the differentframework and practices of preventive conservation in the field of built heritage compared to the museum sector,the milestone of Giovanni Urbani's pilot project on programmed conser.vation and the leading role of the Risk Map of Cultural Heritage.Finally,based on the discus-sions of the durable change in the architectural conservation field after the Venice Charter,including the teaching in Milan School,the debate and re-definition of architectural conserva-tion and the advance definitions of conservation,prevention,maintenance and restoration in the 2004 National Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape,it gives us an agenda for futuretrends of planned conservation with aims to conserve the material authenticity and promote.the co-evolutional strategy.