It can be said that the automatic classification of musical genres plays a very important role in the current digital technology world in which the creation,distribution,and enjoyment of musical works have undergone h...It can be said that the automatic classification of musical genres plays a very important role in the current digital technology world in which the creation,distribution,and enjoyment of musical works have undergone huge changes.As the number ofmusic products increases daily and themusic genres are extremely rich,storing,classifying,and searching these works manually becomes difficult,if not impossible.Automatic classification ofmusical genres will contribute to making this possible.The research presented in this paper proposes an appropriate deep learning model along with an effective data augmentation method to achieve high classification accuracy for music genre classification using Small Free Music Archive(FMA)data set.For Small FMA,it is more efficient to augment the data by generating an echo rather than pitch shifting.The research results show that the DenseNet121 model and data augmentation methods,such as noise addition and echo generation,have a classification accuracy of 98.97%for the Small FMA data set,while this data set lowered the sampling frequency to 16000 Hz.The classification accuracy of this study outperforms that of the majority of the previous results on the same Small FMA data set.展开更多
In the discipline of Music Information Retrieval(MIR),categorizing musicfiles according to their genre is a difficult process.Music genre classifica-tion is an important multimedia research domain for classification of mu...In the discipline of Music Information Retrieval(MIR),categorizing musicfiles according to their genre is a difficult process.Music genre classifica-tion is an important multimedia research domain for classification of music data-bases.In the proposed method music genre classification using features obtained from audio data is proposed.The classification is done using features extracted from the audio data of popular online repository namely GTZAN,ISMIR 2004 and Latin Music Dataset(LMD).The features highlight the differences between different musical styles.In the proposed method,feature selection is per-formed using an African Buffalo Optimization(ABO),and the resulting features are employed to classify the audio using Back Propagation Neural Networks(BPNN),Support Vector Machine(SVM),Naïve Bayes,decision tree and kNN classifiers.Performance evaluation reveals that,ABO based feature selection strategy achieves an average accuracy of 82%with mean square error(MSE)of 0.003 when used with neural network classifier.展开更多
The awareness of applying genre in teaching and learning language has been aroused recently, and the choices of genres are connected closely with teachers' teaching goals and the needs of students. This paper whic...The awareness of applying genre in teaching and learning language has been aroused recently, and the choices of genres are connected closely with teachers' teaching goals and the needs of students. This paper which holds certain pedagogic purpose, analyzes genre-based teaching approach via an analysis on an English text book named Changes (level 1), aiming to help EFL teachers cultivate their genre awareness.展开更多
The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare ...The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare briefly to other skills such as product approach and process approach; and introduce a new approach process-genre approach.展开更多
The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researche...The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major's students in writing and enhance students' discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the following questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a significant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students' interest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students' writing achievement and enhance students' interest in English writing.展开更多
This study mainly uses the move and step analysis to conduct a contrastive genre analysis on the selected 20 Chinese ad-mission brochures(CABs) and 20 American admission brochures(AABs).Differences in moves,move seque...This study mainly uses the move and step analysis to conduct a contrastive genre analysis on the selected 20 Chinese ad-mission brochures(CABs) and 20 American admission brochures(AABs).Differences in moves,move sequences and step arrange-ments have revealed themselves in this comparison.Firstly,Chinese university admission brochures cast more focus on basic infor-mation about the university,the application procedure and admission criteria,while American universities,besides offering such in-formation,also emphasize the promotional function of the admission brochures.They use appealing and creative moves to commer-cially‘sell'advantages of the university to the potential applicants.Secondly,based on Kress & van Leeuwen's visual grammarsymbolic meaning,images and colors in admission brochures are also explored and analyzed as language.For one thing,after count-ing the frequency of the four categories of images,namely portrait,campus scenery,campus life pictures and graphs,it is foundthat,compared with CABs,AABs have a highly more obvious tendency in using images.The images are used as an effective tool toincrease the sense of credibility,identity-recognition,attract reader's attention,and help understanding,making the facts and in-formation more intuitive.For another thing,the main colors used in the brochures are yet another noticeable feature.Especially inAmerican brochures,universities tend to use their‘traditional colors' in the brochure to achieve a sense of consistency.Some Chi-nese brochures also follow this promotional strategy,yet a large percentage of them do not use any recognizable colors other thanthe printed black and white.Based on these differences,suggestions are put forward from perspectives including choice of movesand steps to improve the quality of CABs,hopefully raising their acceptance in the international level.展开更多
Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema ...Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema mechanism analysis,puts for-ward its application in the China English reading teaching strategies.展开更多
The present study analyzes ten English refusal letters of two subcategories based on Swales' genre analysis model and finds that difference exists in the generic features of the two subcategorized types. Teachers ...The present study analyzes ten English refusal letters of two subcategories based on Swales' genre analysis model and finds that difference exists in the generic features of the two subcategorized types. Teachers should reveal the underlying rationale behind linguistic features of a specific genre so that students can not only identify genre but also apply it appropriately.展开更多
Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the know...Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the knowledge of context, especially the purpose for writing and skills in using language. Guided by the approach, students need to consider how to achieve certain social purposes in context with appropriate language and structure while composing mini-sagas. Detailed instruction procedures can be designed to instruct students to work out mini-sagas, which can arouse their interest and motivation in English writing, encourage their writing innovation and originality, develop their writing skills, and dig their writing potentials.展开更多
The introduction of the academic paper, as a type of discourse, are not only an indispensable part of the thesis, but also a kind of social behavior with communicative purpose. The introductions are the essence of aca...The introduction of the academic paper, as a type of discourse, are not only an indispensable part of the thesis, but also a kind of social behavior with communicative purpose. The introductions are the essence of academic papers, so it is particularly important for postgraduates to write English introduction. Therefore, the introduction of academic writing, as a genre, has been widely studied for many years. This study analyzes a 50-research-article corpus of English introductions chosen at random with theories relating to genre and genre analysis. These research articles from masters' graduation thesis in the field of applied linguistics(Research Article, i.e. for RA) are analyzed from macro-level and micro-level. And this study is to explore English postgraduates how to choose genre structure, language forms and the communicative purpose that the introductions should achieve. The result shows that some English introductions of the masters' graduation thesis differ from the international general pattern in frequency and quantity of moves, due to the influence of the context. To some extent, this study is significant in teaching academic paper writing.展开更多
Reading is a complex process,and effective reading is preceded by discourse patterns,namely genre knowledge of the passage structure.Genre-based approach applies the theory of genre and genre analysis to the classroom...Reading is a complex process,and effective reading is preceded by discourse patterns,namely genre knowledge of the passage structure.Genre-based approach applies the theory of genre and genre analysis to the classroom,and develops teaching activities revolving around the schematic structure of a text.It is attempted by teaching genre knowledge to cultivate students' genre awareness under certain social and cultural environment for enhancing their reading comprehension.展开更多
This paper aims to explore the nature of English print advertisements by means of genre analysis and discussion on advertising language features from several pragmatic perspectives.It is suggested that the exquisite a...This paper aims to explore the nature of English print advertisements by means of genre analysis and discussion on advertising language features from several pragmatic perspectives.It is suggested that the exquisite advertisement designs,including both rhetorical moves and the special use of language,serve the common communicative purpose of advertisements-promoting the advertised products or service.展开更多
Genre is a prevailing term in various disciplines and field, carrying different denotations and connotations in each branch of knowledge. By comparing how genre is defined, categorized and interpreted in different fie...Genre is a prevailing term in various disciplines and field, carrying different denotations and connotations in each branch of knowledge. By comparing how genre is defined, categorized and interpreted in different fields and traditions, this essay tends to provide a better understanding of genre as a term, a concept, a perspective and an approach.展开更多
Genre analysis has become one of the most important approaches to text analysis, especially in the field of English for Specific Purposes. Abstract is the essential part of the paper, which helps the readers get initi...Genre analysis has become one of the most important approaches to text analysis, especially in the field of English for Specific Purposes. Abstract is the essential part of the paper, which helps the readers get initial impressions. Because of its particular the usage of communication, it has its special rules and mode. The purpose of this paper was to present the 5-move model characteristic of research dissertation Abstracts, and explore the linguistic characteristics of each move. The analysis started from the macrostructure, i.e from the text as a whole, towards the microstructure which included linguistic description (syntactic and lexical). The results showed that most abstracts followed 5-move model and the linguistic features of this genre.展开更多
Using Swales’CARS model,the present study combines the methods of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis and makes a comparative analysis on the moves and steps of RA introductions between Chinese English jou...Using Swales’CARS model,the present study combines the methods of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis and makes a comparative analysis on the moves and steps of RA introductions between Chinese English journals and international English journals,which will benefit researchers in RA writing and publishing in core English journals.展开更多
This paper,in the frame of Barthes and Foucault's ideas about the"Author",explores the complicated relationship between the author and reader by comparing the classical detective story,Edgar Allen Poe...This paper,in the frame of Barthes and Foucault's ideas about the"Author",explores the complicated relationship between the author and reader by comparing the classical detective story,Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue,and the metaphysical detective story,Paul Auster'City of Glass and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.These two stories investigate the perspectives;the story of crime and the story of investigation.展开更多
基金The authors received the research fun T2022-CN-006 for this study.
文摘It can be said that the automatic classification of musical genres plays a very important role in the current digital technology world in which the creation,distribution,and enjoyment of musical works have undergone huge changes.As the number ofmusic products increases daily and themusic genres are extremely rich,storing,classifying,and searching these works manually becomes difficult,if not impossible.Automatic classification ofmusical genres will contribute to making this possible.The research presented in this paper proposes an appropriate deep learning model along with an effective data augmentation method to achieve high classification accuracy for music genre classification using Small Free Music Archive(FMA)data set.For Small FMA,it is more efficient to augment the data by generating an echo rather than pitch shifting.The research results show that the DenseNet121 model and data augmentation methods,such as noise addition and echo generation,have a classification accuracy of 98.97%for the Small FMA data set,while this data set lowered the sampling frequency to 16000 Hz.The classification accuracy of this study outperforms that of the majority of the previous results on the same Small FMA data set.
文摘In the discipline of Music Information Retrieval(MIR),categorizing musicfiles according to their genre is a difficult process.Music genre classifica-tion is an important multimedia research domain for classification of music data-bases.In the proposed method music genre classification using features obtained from audio data is proposed.The classification is done using features extracted from the audio data of popular online repository namely GTZAN,ISMIR 2004 and Latin Music Dataset(LMD).The features highlight the differences between different musical styles.In the proposed method,feature selection is per-formed using an African Buffalo Optimization(ABO),and the resulting features are employed to classify the audio using Back Propagation Neural Networks(BPNN),Support Vector Machine(SVM),Naïve Bayes,decision tree and kNN classifiers.Performance evaluation reveals that,ABO based feature selection strategy achieves an average accuracy of 82%with mean square error(MSE)of 0.003 when used with neural network classifier.
文摘The awareness of applying genre in teaching and learning language has been aroused recently, and the choices of genres are connected closely with teachers' teaching goals and the needs of students. This paper which holds certain pedagogic purpose, analyzes genre-based teaching approach via an analysis on an English text book named Changes (level 1), aiming to help EFL teachers cultivate their genre awareness.
文摘The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare briefly to other skills such as product approach and process approach; and introduce a new approach process-genre approach.
文摘The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major's students in writing and enhance students' discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the following questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a significant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students' interest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students' writing achievement and enhance students' interest in English writing.
文摘This study mainly uses the move and step analysis to conduct a contrastive genre analysis on the selected 20 Chinese ad-mission brochures(CABs) and 20 American admission brochures(AABs).Differences in moves,move sequences and step arrange-ments have revealed themselves in this comparison.Firstly,Chinese university admission brochures cast more focus on basic infor-mation about the university,the application procedure and admission criteria,while American universities,besides offering such in-formation,also emphasize the promotional function of the admission brochures.They use appealing and creative moves to commer-cially‘sell'advantages of the university to the potential applicants.Secondly,based on Kress & van Leeuwen's visual grammarsymbolic meaning,images and colors in admission brochures are also explored and analyzed as language.For one thing,after count-ing the frequency of the four categories of images,namely portrait,campus scenery,campus life pictures and graphs,it is foundthat,compared with CABs,AABs have a highly more obvious tendency in using images.The images are used as an effective tool toincrease the sense of credibility,identity-recognition,attract reader's attention,and help understanding,making the facts and in-formation more intuitive.For another thing,the main colors used in the brochures are yet another noticeable feature.Especially inAmerican brochures,universities tend to use their‘traditional colors' in the brochure to achieve a sense of consistency.Some Chi-nese brochures also follow this promotional strategy,yet a large percentage of them do not use any recognizable colors other thanthe printed black and white.Based on these differences,suggestions are put forward from perspectives including choice of movesand steps to improve the quality of CABs,hopefully raising their acceptance in the international level.
文摘Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema mechanism analysis,puts for-ward its application in the China English reading teaching strategies.
文摘The present study analyzes ten English refusal letters of two subcategories based on Swales' genre analysis model and finds that difference exists in the generic features of the two subcategorized types. Teachers should reveal the underlying rationale behind linguistic features of a specific genre so that students can not only identify genre but also apply it appropriately.
文摘Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the knowledge of context, especially the purpose for writing and skills in using language. Guided by the approach, students need to consider how to achieve certain social purposes in context with appropriate language and structure while composing mini-sagas. Detailed instruction procedures can be designed to instruct students to work out mini-sagas, which can arouse their interest and motivation in English writing, encourage their writing innovation and originality, develop their writing skills, and dig their writing potentials.
文摘The introduction of the academic paper, as a type of discourse, are not only an indispensable part of the thesis, but also a kind of social behavior with communicative purpose. The introductions are the essence of academic papers, so it is particularly important for postgraduates to write English introduction. Therefore, the introduction of academic writing, as a genre, has been widely studied for many years. This study analyzes a 50-research-article corpus of English introductions chosen at random with theories relating to genre and genre analysis. These research articles from masters' graduation thesis in the field of applied linguistics(Research Article, i.e. for RA) are analyzed from macro-level and micro-level. And this study is to explore English postgraduates how to choose genre structure, language forms and the communicative purpose that the introductions should achieve. The result shows that some English introductions of the masters' graduation thesis differ from the international general pattern in frequency and quantity of moves, due to the influence of the context. To some extent, this study is significant in teaching academic paper writing.
文摘Reading is a complex process,and effective reading is preceded by discourse patterns,namely genre knowledge of the passage structure.Genre-based approach applies the theory of genre and genre analysis to the classroom,and develops teaching activities revolving around the schematic structure of a text.It is attempted by teaching genre knowledge to cultivate students' genre awareness under certain social and cultural environment for enhancing their reading comprehension.
文摘This paper aims to explore the nature of English print advertisements by means of genre analysis and discussion on advertising language features from several pragmatic perspectives.It is suggested that the exquisite advertisement designs,including both rhetorical moves and the special use of language,serve the common communicative purpose of advertisements-promoting the advertised products or service.
文摘Genre is a prevailing term in various disciplines and field, carrying different denotations and connotations in each branch of knowledge. By comparing how genre is defined, categorized and interpreted in different fields and traditions, this essay tends to provide a better understanding of genre as a term, a concept, a perspective and an approach.
文摘Genre analysis has become one of the most important approaches to text analysis, especially in the field of English for Specific Purposes. Abstract is the essential part of the paper, which helps the readers get initial impressions. Because of its particular the usage of communication, it has its special rules and mode. The purpose of this paper was to present the 5-move model characteristic of research dissertation Abstracts, and explore the linguistic characteristics of each move. The analysis started from the macrostructure, i.e from the text as a whole, towards the microstructure which included linguistic description (syntactic and lexical). The results showed that most abstracts followed 5-move model and the linguistic features of this genre.
文摘Using Swales’CARS model,the present study combines the methods of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis and makes a comparative analysis on the moves and steps of RA introductions between Chinese English journals and international English journals,which will benefit researchers in RA writing and publishing in core English journals.
文摘This paper,in the frame of Barthes and Foucault's ideas about the"Author",explores the complicated relationship between the author and reader by comparing the classical detective story,Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue,and the metaphysical detective story,Paul Auster'City of Glass and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.These two stories investigate the perspectives;the story of crime and the story of investigation.
