Dear Xu Shengli,You asked me about learning English.Now I'd like to tell you how you should learn English.First,you should often read English aloud and try your best to learn important something1 by heart.So you c...Dear Xu Shengli,You asked me about learning English.Now I'd like to tell you how you should learn English.First,you should often read English aloud and try your best to learn important something1 by heart.So you can remember them easy2 and form a good habit of thinking in English.Second,you should listen a lot and communicate with others in English.With3 this way,both your listening ability and your spoken English will be improved.Third,you should keep a diary in English every day.I hope that the advice will be useful to you.展开更多
This study examines whether and how cues focusing enhances Chinese-speaking English learners’engagement in comparison,thereby facilitating their acquisition of English articles within xu-based comparative continuatio...This study examines whether and how cues focusing enhances Chinese-speaking English learners’engagement in comparison,thereby facilitating their acquisition of English articles within xu-based comparative continuation writing tasks.Fifty English majors from a Chinese university were randomly assigned to three groups and each group was required to complete a comparative continuation task with one of three conditions:paired cues(cues presented in pairs),randomized cues(cues presented in random order),or implicit cues(no explicit cues provided).All participants undertook pretests,posttests,and delayed tests on English article knowledge,and ten of them volunteered to take follow-up interviews.The results indicate that:1)paired cues were more effective than randomized or implicit cues in promoting the acquisition of English articles;and 2)learners in the paired cues condition produced more target-like article usage in their continuation writings compared to those in the other two conditions.The effectiveness of paired cues is attributed to an enhanced contrast effect,which prompts learners to identify similarities and differences between cues within each pair,relates cue explanations and examples with actual article usage in the reading text,and reflects upon and compares their own article productions against those in the provided reading text.The study concludes that the process of learning through continuation is fundamentally supported by learners’capacity for comparison,reinforcing its role as a core element of xu-competence.展开更多
As a public basic course and the core general course of undergraduate education,moral education(ME)in College English is imperative.It is necessary to design specific teaching programs flexibly and creatively on the b...As a public basic course and the core general course of undergraduate education,moral education(ME)in College English is imperative.It is necessary to design specific teaching programs flexibly and creatively on the basis of fully understanding the ideas,objectives and tasks,basic principles and implementation methods of ME.This paper tries integrating literature reading into unit topic teaching as a new approach to ME in College English.The specific pathways of integration include:expansion of literary reading content,diversified teaching of literary reading,diversified media of literary reading,and diversified assessment system of literary quality.The integration of literature reading and unit topic teaching is conducive to the realization of the teaching goal of cultivating students’language ability,humanistic quality,and correct values.展开更多
When performing English-to-Tamil Neural Machine Translation(NMT),end users face several challenges due to Tamil's rich morphology,free word order,and limited annotated corpora.Although available transformer-based ...When performing English-to-Tamil Neural Machine Translation(NMT),end users face several challenges due to Tamil's rich morphology,free word order,and limited annotated corpora.Although available transformer-based models offer strong baselines,they compromise syntactic awareness and the detection and man-agement of offensive content in cluttered,noisy,and informal text.In this paper,we present POSDEP-Offense-Trans,a multi-task NMT framework that combines Part-of-Speech(POS)and Dependency Parsing(DEP)methods with a robust offensive language classification module.Our architecture enriches the Transformer encoder with syntax-aware embeddings and provides syntax-guided attention mechanisms.The architecture incorporates a structure-aware contrastive loss that reinforces syntactic consistency and deploys auxiliary classification heads for POS tagging,dependency parsing,and multi-class offensive detection.The classifier for offensive words operates at both sentence and token levels and obtains guidance from syntactic features and formal finite automata rules that model offensive language structures-hate speech,profanity,sarcasm,and threats.Using this architecture,we construct a syntactically enriched,socially annotated corpus.Experimental results show improvements in translation quality,with a BLEU score of 33.5,UAS/LAS parsing accuracies of 92.4%and 90%,and a 4.5%Fl-score gain in offensive content detection compared with baseline POS+DEP+Offense models.Also,the proposed model achieved 92.3%in offensive content neutralization,as confirmed by ablation studies.This comprehensive English-Tamil NMT model that unifies syntactic modelling and ethical filtering-laying the groundwork for applications in social media moderation,hate speech mitigation,and policy-compliant multilingual content generation.展开更多
In the contemporary era of globalization,English has evolved into a multifaceted tool for intercultural communication,transcending its traditional boundaries.This paper explores the shifting paradigms in English langu...In the contemporary era of globalization,English has evolved into a multifaceted tool for intercultural communication,transcending its traditional boundaries.This paper explores the shifting paradigms in English language teaching(ELT),moving away from the pursuit of native-like competence towards a more pragmatic focus on communicative proficiency in English as a Lingua Franca(ELF).Through an examination of global English varieties and ELT goals,the paper argues for a pedagogical approach that embraces linguistic diversity and prioritizes effective communication over conformity to native norms.Drawing on insights from ELF research and communicative language teaching methodologies,it advocates for empowering learners with the skills to navigate diverse linguistic contexts and engage in meaningful interactions with speakers from diverse cultural backgrounds.展开更多
The development of a new round of artificial intelligence(AI)science and technology provided good technical support and condition guarantee for college English teaching,but it also brought new challenges.It is necessa...The development of a new round of artificial intelligence(AI)science and technology provided good technical support and condition guarantee for college English teaching,but it also brought new challenges.It is necessary and inevitable for English teaching to experience reform and innovation.China’s AI digital teaching transformation is in the exploratory stage,and AI teaching mode has become the focus of future teaching development.Herein we propose a research method of integrating AI tools in college English teaching to adapt to the personalized learning of the new generation of college students,make the teaching process efficiently integrate the tide of the development of AI,promote the development of education evaluation system more accurately,and provide theoretical and data references for college English teaching reform.展开更多
English is one of the world’s most widely studied and spoken languages now.In China,the local variety of English,referred to in this study as China English from the World Englishes perspective,has been widely debated...English is one of the world’s most widely studied and spoken languages now.In China,the local variety of English,referred to in this study as China English from the World Englishes perspective,has been widely debated regarding its recognition as an English variety among Chinese speakers.This study examines the perceptions of Chinese graduate students majoring in English in Thailand toward World Englishes,China English,and their tolerance of China English in the Chinese EFL classroom after completing a 15-week World Englishes course.Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with seven students and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.The findings indicated that while students acknowledged the legitimacy of World Englishes and China English in various contexts,they resisted its use in English language classrooms in China.Instead,they preferred conventional pedagogical approaches that prioritize native English varieties,particularly British and American English.These findings suggest that language educators in China should integrate diverse English varieties into the classroom by incorporating authentic learning materials and designing relevant learning activities.Such an approach would not only expose students to English diversity but also enhance their intercultural competence and global citizenship.展开更多
Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)is a bimonthly,SCI-indexed academic journal produced by the Geological Society of China.With the latest 2023 Impact Factor of 2.1,it has long been indexed by many international da...Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)is a bimonthly,SCI-indexed academic journal produced by the Geological Society of China.With the latest 2023 Impact Factor of 2.1,it has long been indexed by many international databases and websites,such as SCI,CA,BIG,etc.Internationally,the journal cooperates with John Wiley&Sons,Inc.to publish the electronic version;all papers can be downloaded online.Contributors wishing to submit,read,enquire and download can log in via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ags.展开更多
Integrating local cultural resources into language teaching is a significant trend in fostering students’core competencies.This study addresses the challenge of effectively implementing China’s educational policy of...Integrating local cultural resources into language teaching is a significant trend in fostering students’core competencies.This study addresses the challenge of effectively implementing China’s educational policy of“Core Competencies for English as a Subject”in middle school classrooms by leveraging the unique revolutionary(“Red”)culture of Tangshan City.The research developed and tested a pedagogical model that utilizes Tangshan’s rich Red Culture heritage-such as the Kailuan Miners’Movement and the Xifengkou Great Wall Resistance relics-as authentic content for English language learning.Employing a mixed-methods approach,including literature review,fieldwork,action research,and case analysis in partner middle schools,the project involved designing thematic teaching resources(e.g.,lesson plans,micro-lectures)and implementing interactive activities like role-playing and project-based learning.Findings indicate that this localized approach significantly enhanced students’engagement,cultural awareness,critical thinking,and language application skills,effectively addressing the four dimensions of English core competencies:language ability,cultural awareness,thinking capacity,and learning ability.The study concludes that the“Local Culture-Integrated Core Competency Model”provides a practical,replicable framework for synergizing values education with language acquisition.It offers valuable insights for educators worldwide seeking to incorporate local history and values into foreign language curricula,promoting deeper contextual learning.展开更多
The verse chronicle known as Laʒamon’s(or Lawman’s)Brut is an important witness to changes in the English language and versecraft around the year 1200,and for this reason it has attracted the attention of historical...The verse chronicle known as Laʒamon’s(or Lawman’s)Brut is an important witness to changes in the English language and versecraft around the year 1200,and for this reason it has attracted the attention of historical linguists and lexicographers.Does it deserve greater attention among students of literature?This article begins by discussing what makes Brut unique in the corpus of Middle English literature and why it deserves our attention.The second part discusses the current project to complete the Early English Text Society’s edition of Brut,with an introduction,textual notes,and a glossary.The last section takes up Laʒamon’s practice of using French loanwords,since it stands at the beginning of the period in the 13th and 14th centuries,when English writers borrowed extensively from French.展开更多
This study investigated the influence of the production-oriented approach on English speaking anxiety among non-English major college students.A quasi-experimental design was implemented over one semester with two par...This study investigated the influence of the production-oriented approach on English speaking anxiety among non-English major college students.A quasi-experimental design was implemented over one semester with two parallel classes of junior students at a university in northwestern China.Data collected before and after the intervention using a validated Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale indicated that students experiencing POA instruction showed a discernible decrease in overall speaking anxiety,particularly concerning communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation,relative to peers instructed via the audio-lingual method.Analysis highlighted task-driven learning,scaffolded input facilitation,and formative process evaluation within the POA framework as contributing factors.Findings imply POA represents a potential pedagogical framework for addressing affective challenges in the development of EFL oral skills.展开更多
This study constructs a theoretical and analytical framework for examining the interplay between the information environment and autonomous English learning by integrating Zimmerman’s self-regulated learning theory w...This study constructs a theoretical and analytical framework for examining the interplay between the information environment and autonomous English learning by integrating Zimmerman’s self-regulated learning theory with the Technology Acceptance Model(TAM).This integrated framework reveals the underlying connections between learners’self-regulatory processes and their acceptance of technological tools.Using vocational college students as the target popula-tion,this study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investi-gate the roles of the information environment,autonomous learning behaviors,learning psychology,and cross-cultural communication competence.The results demonstrate that the information environment significantly and positively influences both autonomous learning behaviors and learning psychology.Furthermore,cross-cultural communication competence is found to mediate this relationship.On the basis of these findings,several strategies are proposed:educational institutions should enhance intelligent resource databases and promote the develop-ment of AI-assisted learning systems;educators are encouraged to strengthen their competence in digital instructional design;and learners should be supported in improving their metacognitive strategies and ability to integrate technological tools effectively.展开更多
The education of curriculum ideology and politics is vigorously implemented in China.It manifests in the teaching process across three dimensions:textbooks,educators,and learners.During lesson preparation,instructors ...The education of curriculum ideology and politics is vigorously implemented in China.It manifests in the teaching process across three dimensions:textbooks,educators,and learners.During lesson preparation,instructors may neglect the subtle ideological and political nuances present in original English textbooks,which can result in students misinterpreting the content.Additionally,time constraints hinder teachers from effectively clarifying these implicit factors.Furthermore,students who rely solely on the textbook are likely to accept the information at face value,missing the opportunity to clarify any misconceptions through interactive learning.Ultimately,the textbook is the key and foundation for the implementation of the curriculum ideology and politics in education.This paper takes medical English course as an example to demonstrate it.展开更多
The interference of a tonal language poses challenges for Chinese learners of English to acquire word stress.The lack of symmetry between word stress problems in production and perception,and the absence of attention ...The interference of a tonal language poses challenges for Chinese learners of English to acquire word stress.The lack of symmetry between word stress problems in production and perception,and the absence of attention to specific stress patterns in teaching and learning,can reduce the effectiveness of word stress acquisition.The purpose of this paper is twofold:to examine the relationship between English word stress production and perception and to investigate how English word stress production and perception are affected by specific stress patterns.Ninety participants were involved in a production task and a perception task.Test words were selected based on 26 stress patterns in three categories:syllabic structure,phonological similarity,and vowel reduction.The results show that the production and perception of English word stress differ significantly without a strong linear correlation.Although the accuracy of word stress perception was higher than production for the test words in general,the comparative status of production and perception varied across different stress patterns.Specifically,in the syllabic structure category,the highest symmetry rate of word stress assignment in the production and perception forˈσCVCC(e.g.,climax,abend),while the symmetry rate forˈσoCVV(C)(e.g.,abdicate,importune)was the lowest and the most problematic for production.In the phonological similarity category,production and perception of word stress were most symmetrical for words with the suffix“-eous”and the most asymmetrical for words with the suffix“-ese,”which was also the most problematic for production.Identification of vowel reduction was more challenging for/ɒ/than/æ/in both production and perception.It is suggested that Chinese ESL teachers prioritize the teaching of stress patterns with low symmetrical relationships to achieve efficient learning outcomes.展开更多
The Shanghai Gaokao English is characterized by diverse question types,a high difficulty level,and innovative thematic content.Among these,the single-sentence Chinese-to-English translation task stands out as a distin...The Shanghai Gaokao English is characterized by diverse question types,a high difficulty level,and innovative thematic content.Among these,the single-sentence Chinese-to-English translation task stands out as a distinctive component,presenting challenges,such as extensive vocabulary requirements,implicit grammatical testing,mandatory use of provided parenthetical words,and the incorporation of“four-character structures”(四字格).Candidates frequently experience significant score losses in this section during preparation and mock examinations.This paper analyzes practical methodologies for tackling Chinese-English translation tasks by examining authentic questions from Shanghai Gaokao English(spring and autumn examinations)over the past six years,aiming to provide teachers and students with effective test-taking strategies.展开更多
With the increasingly prominent trend of globalization,English,as the common language of international communication,plays an increasingly important role in university education.As a key link in English teaching,the c...With the increasingly prominent trend of globalization,English,as the common language of international communication,plays an increasingly important role in university education.As a key link in English teaching,the college English audio-visual oral course not only imparts language knowledge and skills,but also shoulders the important task of cultivating students’critical thinking.As one of the essential core qualities of modern talents,critical thinking ability plays an irreplaceable role in students’in-depth understanding of English knowledge,improving intercultural communication ability and cultivating innovative thinking.This paper expounds the significance of cultivating students’critical thinking ability in college English audio-visual and oral teaching,and puts forward a series of innovative teaching strategies to cultivate students’critical thinking ability combined with practical teaching experience and cutting-edge education theory,in order to provide new ideas and practical guidance for the improvement of college English teaching quality and the development of students’comprehensive quality.展开更多
Public English carries significant moral education responsibilities as a core general education course in vocational schools.By organically integrating English teaching content with moral education,it achieves the uni...Public English carries significant moral education responsibilities as a core general education course in vocational schools.By organically integrating English teaching content with moral education,it achieves the unity of knowledge imparting and value guidance.The course should fully leverage its educational function by strengthening humanistic care and psychological counseling,guiding students to develop self-awareness,understand their responsibilities,and establish correct worldviews,outlooks on life,and values,ultimately fostering well-rounded development.展开更多
“World English”,also known as“Global English”which has been attracting wide ranged attention by scholars world⁃wide,is a relatively new way to understand the spread of English.It also somewhat greatly affects the ...“World English”,also known as“Global English”which has been attracting wide ranged attention by scholars world⁃wide,is a relatively new way to understand the spread of English.It also somewhat greatly affects the methodology that Chinese teachers and students apply to approach English teaching and learning respectively.This paper starts with a brief introduction to the trend of English globalization and followed by the difference between China English and Chinglish.In addition,it analyzes the use of China English as one of the standard species of“World English”.Finally,it suggests that in order to achieve better ap⁃plication of English,make the best use of China English as a supplement of English teaching and learning could be a reasonable way.展开更多
文摘Dear Xu Shengli,You asked me about learning English.Now I'd like to tell you how you should learn English.First,you should often read English aloud and try your best to learn important something1 by heart.So you can remember them easy2 and form a good habit of thinking in English.Second,you should listen a lot and communicate with others in English.With3 this way,both your listening ability and your spoken English will be improved.Third,you should keep a diary in English every day.I hope that the advice will be useful to you.
文摘This study examines whether and how cues focusing enhances Chinese-speaking English learners’engagement in comparison,thereby facilitating their acquisition of English articles within xu-based comparative continuation writing tasks.Fifty English majors from a Chinese university were randomly assigned to three groups and each group was required to complete a comparative continuation task with one of three conditions:paired cues(cues presented in pairs),randomized cues(cues presented in random order),or implicit cues(no explicit cues provided).All participants undertook pretests,posttests,and delayed tests on English article knowledge,and ten of them volunteered to take follow-up interviews.The results indicate that:1)paired cues were more effective than randomized or implicit cues in promoting the acquisition of English articles;and 2)learners in the paired cues condition produced more target-like article usage in their continuation writings compared to those in the other two conditions.The effectiveness of paired cues is attributed to an enhanced contrast effect,which prompts learners to identify similarities and differences between cues within each pair,relates cue explanations and examples with actual article usage in the reading text,and reflects upon and compares their own article productions against those in the provided reading text.The study concludes that the process of learning through continuation is fundamentally supported by learners’capacity for comparison,reinforcing its role as a core element of xu-competence.
文摘As a public basic course and the core general course of undergraduate education,moral education(ME)in College English is imperative.It is necessary to design specific teaching programs flexibly and creatively on the basis of fully understanding the ideas,objectives and tasks,basic principles and implementation methods of ME.This paper tries integrating literature reading into unit topic teaching as a new approach to ME in College English.The specific pathways of integration include:expansion of literary reading content,diversified teaching of literary reading,diversified media of literary reading,and diversified assessment system of literary quality.The integration of literature reading and unit topic teaching is conducive to the realization of the teaching goal of cultivating students’language ability,humanistic quality,and correct values.
文摘When performing English-to-Tamil Neural Machine Translation(NMT),end users face several challenges due to Tamil's rich morphology,free word order,and limited annotated corpora.Although available transformer-based models offer strong baselines,they compromise syntactic awareness and the detection and man-agement of offensive content in cluttered,noisy,and informal text.In this paper,we present POSDEP-Offense-Trans,a multi-task NMT framework that combines Part-of-Speech(POS)and Dependency Parsing(DEP)methods with a robust offensive language classification module.Our architecture enriches the Transformer encoder with syntax-aware embeddings and provides syntax-guided attention mechanisms.The architecture incorporates a structure-aware contrastive loss that reinforces syntactic consistency and deploys auxiliary classification heads for POS tagging,dependency parsing,and multi-class offensive detection.The classifier for offensive words operates at both sentence and token levels and obtains guidance from syntactic features and formal finite automata rules that model offensive language structures-hate speech,profanity,sarcasm,and threats.Using this architecture,we construct a syntactically enriched,socially annotated corpus.Experimental results show improvements in translation quality,with a BLEU score of 33.5,UAS/LAS parsing accuracies of 92.4%and 90%,and a 4.5%Fl-score gain in offensive content detection compared with baseline POS+DEP+Offense models.Also,the proposed model achieved 92.3%in offensive content neutralization,as confirmed by ablation studies.This comprehensive English-Tamil NMT model that unifies syntactic modelling and ethical filtering-laying the groundwork for applications in social media moderation,hate speech mitigation,and policy-compliant multilingual content generation.
文摘In the contemporary era of globalization,English has evolved into a multifaceted tool for intercultural communication,transcending its traditional boundaries.This paper explores the shifting paradigms in English language teaching(ELT),moving away from the pursuit of native-like competence towards a more pragmatic focus on communicative proficiency in English as a Lingua Franca(ELF).Through an examination of global English varieties and ELT goals,the paper argues for a pedagogical approach that embraces linguistic diversity and prioritizes effective communication over conformity to native norms.Drawing on insights from ELF research and communicative language teaching methodologies,it advocates for empowering learners with the skills to navigate diverse linguistic contexts and engage in meaningful interactions with speakers from diverse cultural backgrounds.
基金Textile Light-Higher Education Teaching Reform Research Project of China Textile Industry Federation(2021BKJGLX362)China Higher Education Association 2023 Higher Education Scientific Research Planning Project“Vocational Education Service Regional Economic and Social Development Research”(23ZYJ0217)Liaoning Province Education Science“14th Five-Year Plan”Project“Research on the Correlation Between Higher Vocational Education and Intra-Regional Economy in Northeast China”(JGEB247)。
文摘The development of a new round of artificial intelligence(AI)science and technology provided good technical support and condition guarantee for college English teaching,but it also brought new challenges.It is necessary and inevitable for English teaching to experience reform and innovation.China’s AI digital teaching transformation is in the exploratory stage,and AI teaching mode has become the focus of future teaching development.Herein we propose a research method of integrating AI tools in college English teaching to adapt to the personalized learning of the new generation of college students,make the teaching process efficiently integrate the tide of the development of AI,promote the development of education evaluation system more accurately,and provide theoretical and data references for college English teaching reform.
文摘English is one of the world’s most widely studied and spoken languages now.In China,the local variety of English,referred to in this study as China English from the World Englishes perspective,has been widely debated regarding its recognition as an English variety among Chinese speakers.This study examines the perceptions of Chinese graduate students majoring in English in Thailand toward World Englishes,China English,and their tolerance of China English in the Chinese EFL classroom after completing a 15-week World Englishes course.Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with seven students and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.The findings indicated that while students acknowledged the legitimacy of World Englishes and China English in various contexts,they resisted its use in English language classrooms in China.Instead,they preferred conventional pedagogical approaches that prioritize native English varieties,particularly British and American English.These findings suggest that language educators in China should integrate diverse English varieties into the classroom by incorporating authentic learning materials and designing relevant learning activities.Such an approach would not only expose students to English diversity but also enhance their intercultural competence and global citizenship.
文摘Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)is a bimonthly,SCI-indexed academic journal produced by the Geological Society of China.With the latest 2023 Impact Factor of 2.1,it has long been indexed by many international databases and websites,such as SCI,CA,BIG,etc.Internationally,the journal cooperates with John Wiley&Sons,Inc.to publish the electronic version;all papers can be downloaded online.Contributors wishing to submit,read,enquire and download can log in via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ags.
基金2025 Tangshan Normal University School-level Scientific Research Project“Cultivating Core Competencies in English through Local Red Culture:A Tangshan-Based Pedagogical Model for Middle School Students”(20251123037)2025 Tangshan Social Science Development Research Project“A Study on Integrating Chinese Traditional Culture Education into Junior High School English Classes in Tangshan City”(TSSKL2025-155)。
文摘Integrating local cultural resources into language teaching is a significant trend in fostering students’core competencies.This study addresses the challenge of effectively implementing China’s educational policy of“Core Competencies for English as a Subject”in middle school classrooms by leveraging the unique revolutionary(“Red”)culture of Tangshan City.The research developed and tested a pedagogical model that utilizes Tangshan’s rich Red Culture heritage-such as the Kailuan Miners’Movement and the Xifengkou Great Wall Resistance relics-as authentic content for English language learning.Employing a mixed-methods approach,including literature review,fieldwork,action research,and case analysis in partner middle schools,the project involved designing thematic teaching resources(e.g.,lesson plans,micro-lectures)and implementing interactive activities like role-playing and project-based learning.Findings indicate that this localized approach significantly enhanced students’engagement,cultural awareness,critical thinking,and language application skills,effectively addressing the four dimensions of English core competencies:language ability,cultural awareness,thinking capacity,and learning ability.The study concludes that the“Local Culture-Integrated Core Competency Model”provides a practical,replicable framework for synergizing values education with language acquisition.It offers valuable insights for educators worldwide seeking to incorporate local history and values into foreign language curricula,promoting deeper contextual learning.
文摘The verse chronicle known as Laʒamon’s(or Lawman’s)Brut is an important witness to changes in the English language and versecraft around the year 1200,and for this reason it has attracted the attention of historical linguists and lexicographers.Does it deserve greater attention among students of literature?This article begins by discussing what makes Brut unique in the corpus of Middle English literature and why it deserves our attention.The second part discusses the current project to complete the Early English Text Society’s edition of Brut,with an introduction,textual notes,and a glossary.The last section takes up Laʒamon’s practice of using French loanwords,since it stands at the beginning of the period in the 13th and 14th centuries,when English writers borrowed extensively from French.
文摘This study investigated the influence of the production-oriented approach on English speaking anxiety among non-English major college students.A quasi-experimental design was implemented over one semester with two parallel classes of junior students at a university in northwestern China.Data collected before and after the intervention using a validated Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale indicated that students experiencing POA instruction showed a discernible decrease in overall speaking anxiety,particularly concerning communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation,relative to peers instructed via the audio-lingual method.Analysis highlighted task-driven learning,scaffolded input facilitation,and formative process evaluation within the POA framework as contributing factors.Findings imply POA represents a potential pedagogical framework for addressing affective challenges in the development of EFL oral skills.
文摘This study constructs a theoretical and analytical framework for examining the interplay between the information environment and autonomous English learning by integrating Zimmerman’s self-regulated learning theory with the Technology Acceptance Model(TAM).This integrated framework reveals the underlying connections between learners’self-regulatory processes and their acceptance of technological tools.Using vocational college students as the target popula-tion,this study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to investi-gate the roles of the information environment,autonomous learning behaviors,learning psychology,and cross-cultural communication competence.The results demonstrate that the information environment significantly and positively influences both autonomous learning behaviors and learning psychology.Furthermore,cross-cultural communication competence is found to mediate this relationship.On the basis of these findings,several strategies are proposed:educational institutions should enhance intelligent resource databases and promote the develop-ment of AI-assisted learning systems;educators are encouraged to strengthen their competence in digital instructional design;and learners should be supported in improving their metacognitive strategies and ability to integrate technological tools effectively.
基金The Higher Education Teaching Reform Project of Southern Medical University“The Curriculum Ideology and Politics Contributing to Achieving the Stereoscopic,Multielement,and Innovative Medical English Courses”(202166)“The Redevelopment of Medical English Learning Environment in Digital Era”(Fund No.S202312121182X)providing funding for this work.
文摘The education of curriculum ideology and politics is vigorously implemented in China.It manifests in the teaching process across three dimensions:textbooks,educators,and learners.During lesson preparation,instructors may neglect the subtle ideological and political nuances present in original English textbooks,which can result in students misinterpreting the content.Additionally,time constraints hinder teachers from effectively clarifying these implicit factors.Furthermore,students who rely solely on the textbook are likely to accept the information at face value,missing the opportunity to clarify any misconceptions through interactive learning.Ultimately,the textbook is the key and foundation for the implementation of the curriculum ideology and politics in education.This paper takes medical English course as an example to demonstrate it.
基金supported by the General Research Fund(No.18600218)。
文摘The interference of a tonal language poses challenges for Chinese learners of English to acquire word stress.The lack of symmetry between word stress problems in production and perception,and the absence of attention to specific stress patterns in teaching and learning,can reduce the effectiveness of word stress acquisition.The purpose of this paper is twofold:to examine the relationship between English word stress production and perception and to investigate how English word stress production and perception are affected by specific stress patterns.Ninety participants were involved in a production task and a perception task.Test words were selected based on 26 stress patterns in three categories:syllabic structure,phonological similarity,and vowel reduction.The results show that the production and perception of English word stress differ significantly without a strong linear correlation.Although the accuracy of word stress perception was higher than production for the test words in general,the comparative status of production and perception varied across different stress patterns.Specifically,in the syllabic structure category,the highest symmetry rate of word stress assignment in the production and perception forˈσCVCC(e.g.,climax,abend),while the symmetry rate forˈσoCVV(C)(e.g.,abdicate,importune)was the lowest and the most problematic for production.In the phonological similarity category,production and perception of word stress were most symmetrical for words with the suffix“-eous”and the most asymmetrical for words with the suffix“-ese,”which was also the most problematic for production.Identification of vowel reduction was more challenging for/ɒ/than/æ/in both production and perception.It is suggested that Chinese ESL teachers prioritize the teaching of stress patterns with low symmetrical relationships to achieve efficient learning outcomes.
文摘The Shanghai Gaokao English is characterized by diverse question types,a high difficulty level,and innovative thematic content.Among these,the single-sentence Chinese-to-English translation task stands out as a distinctive component,presenting challenges,such as extensive vocabulary requirements,implicit grammatical testing,mandatory use of provided parenthetical words,and the incorporation of“four-character structures”(四字格).Candidates frequently experience significant score losses in this section during preparation and mock examinations.This paper analyzes practical methodologies for tackling Chinese-English translation tasks by examining authentic questions from Shanghai Gaokao English(spring and autumn examinations)over the past six years,aiming to provide teachers and students with effective test-taking strategies.
基金A Study on the Teaching Reform of College English Audio-Visual Oral Course Oriented towards the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Ability(2501032339)。
文摘With the increasingly prominent trend of globalization,English,as the common language of international communication,plays an increasingly important role in university education.As a key link in English teaching,the college English audio-visual oral course not only imparts language knowledge and skills,but also shoulders the important task of cultivating students’critical thinking.As one of the essential core qualities of modern talents,critical thinking ability plays an irreplaceable role in students’in-depth understanding of English knowledge,improving intercultural communication ability and cultivating innovative thinking.This paper expounds the significance of cultivating students’critical thinking ability in college English audio-visual and oral teaching,and puts forward a series of innovative teaching strategies to cultivate students’critical thinking ability combined with practical teaching experience and cutting-edge education theory,in order to provide new ideas and practical guidance for the improvement of college English teaching quality and the development of students’comprehensive quality.
基金2024 Jilin Province Vocational and Adult Education Teaching Reform Research Project,“Ideological and Political Education in Public English Curriculum of Vocational Schools:Construction and Practice”(Project No.:2024ZCY352)。
文摘Public English carries significant moral education responsibilities as a core general education course in vocational schools.By organically integrating English teaching content with moral education,it achieves the unity of knowledge imparting and value guidance.The course should fully leverage its educational function by strengthening humanistic care and psychological counseling,guiding students to develop self-awareness,understand their responsibilities,and establish correct worldviews,outlooks on life,and values,ultimately fostering well-rounded development.
文摘“World English”,also known as“Global English”which has been attracting wide ranged attention by scholars world⁃wide,is a relatively new way to understand the spread of English.It also somewhat greatly affects the methodology that Chinese teachers and students apply to approach English teaching and learning respectively.This paper starts with a brief introduction to the trend of English globalization and followed by the difference between China English and Chinglish.In addition,it analyzes the use of China English as one of the standard species of“World English”.Finally,it suggests that in order to achieve better ap⁃plication of English,make the best use of China English as a supplement of English teaching and learning could be a reasonable way.
