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
Playing skill is the basic condition of musical instrument performance, and its level directly influences the timbre and musical expression of the work. In order to make music more appealing, it is essential to improv...Playing skill is the basic condition of musical instrument performance, and its level directly influences the timbre and musical expression of the work. In order to make music more appealing, it is essential to improve performance skills. Only by mastering the flute playing skills skillfully, can the work be more vocal, the timbre is soft, and the timbre is more unified, so that the thoughts, feelings and profound connotations of the musical works are more deeply rooted. The generality of music genre, that is to say, can fully show the common principles of music creation in a period of music and the criterion of musical aesthetics. The individuality of the music genre fully demonstrates the individual characteristics of the composer. In the music works in different periods of the musicians, the specific performance we can see the typical character of a music period, different features also can feel different with the composer.展开更多
This article investigates general extenders in American English,using a more than one-billion-word corpus(COCA)classified by different genres.In this study,the differences and frequencies of general extenders in diffe...This article investigates general extenders in American English,using a more than one-billion-word corpus(COCA)classified by different genres.In this study,the differences and frequencies of general extenders in different genres are displayed.The study also illustrates the tendency of the use of general extenders in American English from 1990 to 2020.Moreover,the salient features of general extenders used in different genres are observed.The study can provide some practical implications for the use of general extenders for second language learners.展开更多
This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges.Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the h...This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges.Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the history of medicine in early modern China.The following covers the concept of epistemic genres that Pomata first developed out of her research on the history of the genres historia,observationes,recipes,medical cases,and the commentary in Europe.She connected these genres variously to empiricism,erudition,scientific observation,norm-making,and recording practice.The paper then evaluates how Pomata and Hanson used epistemic genres as a method for doing cross-cultural research on 17th-18th-century Sino-European medical exchanges.Pomata then wrote a comparative history of the medical case in Europe and China.The article concludes with how Hanson applied the distinction of epistemic genres to analyze the history of Chinese medicine from a new perspective.展开更多
This paper investigates the style-specific rhythms of Mandarin in 4 different genres using acoustic measures so as to generate more macro and micro understanding of the speech rhythms of Mandarin.It took News,Dialogue...This paper investigates the style-specific rhythms of Mandarin in 4 different genres using acoustic measures so as to generate more macro and micro understanding of the speech rhythms of Mandarin.It took News,Dialogue,Short story and Weather forecast as the different genres.All the data were natural and authentic materials downloaded from China CCTV websites and analyzed using 6 acknowledged rhythmic measurements:speech rate,%V,ΔC,VarcoC,rPVI-C and nPVI-V.The findings show that the rhythms of Mandarin in four genres all fall towards the"syllable-timed"ends of the timing continuum,demonstrating a broadly similar rhythmic pattern for Mandarin,but the four genres of Mandarin significantly differ from each other in speech rate,interval measures and pairwise variability indices,revealing the stylistic variations within the same rhythmic pattern,and that current rhythmic measurements vary in their powers in classifying stylistic rhythms of Mandarin with%V,ΔC and nPVI giving the best categorization in this study.展开更多
In this paper we propose to focus on so-called speech genres, traditionally understood as a set of tacit instructions broadly constraining the form and content of our discursive productions. More specifi cally, and ac...In this paper we propose to focus on so-called speech genres, traditionally understood as a set of tacit instructions broadly constraining the form and content of our discursive productions. More specifi cally, and according to Peirce's categorial scheme, we suggest speech genres can be considered as ‘thirds', or purposeful and general ‘laws' overdetermining speech and its regularities. As such, the study of their semiotic mechanisms would fall within the sphere of Peirce's ‘speculative rhetoric', one of the three branches of his semeiotics. Overall, following Lyne, we suggest that any speech genre relates to three kinds of rhetorical ‘habits' —habits of representation, habits of objectifi cation, and habits of interpretation—which explain a sense of ‘reasonableness' permeating any discursive practice in society. We suggest that the task of discursive rhetorics should be to delineate, for given cultural communities, the productive and interpretive norms and mechanisms which govern the determination of discourse and elicit an intended interpretation on the interpreter's side.展开更多
This article is about the movies from Chinese mainland under the production category of minority cinema （shaoshu minzu dianying）, between the years 1940 and 1963. It argues that the taxonomic effort of grouping diff...This article is about the movies from Chinese mainland under the production category of minority cinema （shaoshu minzu dianying）, between the years 1940 and 1963. It argues that the taxonomic effort of grouping different non-Hart ethnicities together into a single category of minority cinema is a sociopolitical attempt to construct, maintain and control the definition of ethnic minorities. It calls into question not what is within the film, but the classificatory practices outside of the film collectively engaged by the government, the film industry, the critics and the mass audience. Moving away from the methods of examining the representation and generic conventions of the cinema other scholarship has employed, this article emphasizes the classification system used during the time of the cinema. By comparing it with a similar classificatory problem in Western national history, using an epistemological perspective, this article criticizes the negative impact inevitably left in rhetorically driven classification systems.展开更多
The earliest Chinese poetry is closely linked with songs.Singing promotes the emergence of poetic genres and contributes to the combination of words and the construction of poetic lines.Songs are sung to a regular rhy...The earliest Chinese poetry is closely linked with songs.Singing promotes the emergence of poetic genres and contributes to the combination of words and the construction of poetic lines.Songs are sung to a regular rhythm and melody.In the early days of humanity,when music was not yet developed,music needed a kind of rhythmic vocal language to accompany it.Meanwhile,people in the early days had a minimal set of words that they needed music to enhance the rhythm of their language.Therefore,music and language complemented each other.The extensive use of interjections in early Chinese poetry directly related to singing.The word combination and artistic embellishment of these poems were continuously refined and evolved in the style of songs.Early poems were artistic creations and employment of rhetorical devices in the form of singing.This characteristic makes early Chinese poetry quite different from the poem composition in written form of later periods.Therefore,studying the language and rhythm of early Chinese poetry should be conducted in the context of singing.The poems in The Book of Songs are divided into three categories:airs(feng风),court hymns(ya雅),and eulogies(song颂)based on their musical attributes.Their artistic forms and language skills were also influenced by singing.The literary forms observed in The Odes of Chu,represented by"The Nine Songs,""The Lamet,""Heavenly Question,""Requiem,"and"Divination,"can be explored from their relationships with singing.During the Han Dynasty,song poetry歌诗featured three major forms and styles,each originating from a specific song form of that era.These song forms included the songs of Chu,guchui army songs鼓吹饶歌,and xianghe songs相和歌.The songs of Chu continue the syntax and line patterns of"The Nine Songs."Guchui army songs represent the earliest form of zayan poetry杂言诗,while xianghe songs predominantly feature poetic lines of five characters.These three song forms led to three literary forms,which underwent a natural evolution in the Han Dynasty.展开更多
Automated and accurate movie genre classification is crucial for content organization,recommendation systems,and audience targeting in the film industry.Although most existing approaches focus on audiovisual features ...Automated and accurate movie genre classification is crucial for content organization,recommendation systems,and audience targeting in the film industry.Although most existing approaches focus on audiovisual features such as trailers and posters,the text-based classification remains underexplored despite its accessibility and semantic richness.This paper introduces the Genre Attention Model(GAM),a deep learning architecture that integrates transformer models with a hierarchical attention mechanism to extract and leverage contextual information from movie plots formulti-label genre classification.In order to assess its effectiveness,we assessmultiple transformer-based models,including Bidirectional Encoder Representations fromTransformers(BERT),ALite BERT(ALBERT),Distilled BERT(DistilBERT),Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach(RoBERTa),Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately(ELECTRA),eXtreme Learning Network(XLNet)and Decodingenhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention(DeBERTa).Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of DeBERTa-based GAM,which employs a two-tier hierarchical attention mechanism:word-level attention highlights key terms,while sentence-level attention captures critical narrative segments,ensuring a refined and interpretable representation of movie plots.Evaluated on three benchmark datasets Trailers12K,Large Movie Trailer Dataset-9(LMTD-9),and MovieLens37K.GAM achieves micro-average precision scores of 83.63%,83.32%,and 83.34%,respectively,surpassing state-of-the-artmodels.Additionally,GAMis computationally efficient,requiring just 6.10Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second(GFLOPS),making it a scalable and cost-effective solution.These results highlight the growing potential of text-based deep learning models in genre classification and GAM’s effectiveness in improving predictive accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency.With its robust performance,GAM offers a versatile and scalable framework for content recommendation,film indexing,and media analytics,providing an interpretable alternative to traditional audiovisual-based classification techniques.展开更多
This study systematically analyzes the genre structure and linguistic features of 42 English abstracts from six internationally renowned medical journals,based on the revised CARS model proposed by Swales.The research...This study systematically analyzes the genre structure and linguistic features of 42 English abstracts from six internationally renowned medical journals,based on the revised CARS model proposed by Swales.The research findings indicate that medical abstracts typically follow a three-step structure:“Establishing a Research Territory-Establishing a Research Niche-Occupying the Niche”,where the steps“Research Purpose”and“Research Results”are the most frequently utilized,forming the core content of the abstracts.Within the sequence of moves,81%conform to conventional patterns,while a minority of samples exhibit unconventional structures such as inversion,cycling,and repetition.In terms of linguistic features,the present simple tense and active voice are predominantly used,reflecting the universality of the research and the author’s agency;conversely,the simple past tense and passive voice are primarily employed to describe research methods and processes.This study reveals the writing conventions of medical abstracts,providing empirical evidence and genre reference for non-native scholars in the preparation and publication of their work in international journals.展开更多
Based on the theory of thematic complexity, a contrastive analysis on 2 sections selected from research articles-method and discussion, was conducted. The differences and similarities between the 2 sections in simple ...Based on the theory of thematic complexity, a contrastive analysis on 2 sections selected from research articles-method and discussion, was conducted. The differences and similarities between the 2 sections in simple theme, multiple theme, textual theme, interpersonal theme, topical theme and thematic progression were analyzed and concluded. The author believes that the causes of the differences and similarities are the different genre features of the 2 sections and the academic features of the materials selected.展开更多
This paper is attempted to explore advanced English teaching from perspective of text analysis. It involves the introduction of culture background, the application of genre-based approach, the appreciation of writing ...This paper is attempted to explore advanced English teaching from perspective of text analysis. It involves the introduction of culture background, the application of genre-based approach, the appreciation of writing style and the analysis of textual structure through sample studies.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
Based on the genre models of Paltridge (1995) and Knapp and Watkins(1994),the present paper analyzes several second-year non-English majors’argumentative writings of discussion and pedagogical implications are sugges...Based on the genre models of Paltridge (1995) and Knapp and Watkins(1994),the present paper analyzes several second-year non-English majors’argumentative writings of discussion and pedagogical implications are suggested.展开更多
Genres are one of the key features that categorize music based on specific series of patterns.However,the Arabic music content on the web is poorly defined into its genres,making the automatic classification of Arabic...Genres are one of the key features that categorize music based on specific series of patterns.However,the Arabic music content on the web is poorly defined into its genres,making the automatic classification of Arabic audio genres challenging.For this reason,in this research,our objective is first to construct a well-annotated dataset of five of the most well-known Arabic music genres,which are:Eastern Takht,Rai,Muwashshah,the poem,and Mawwal,and finally present a comprehensive empirical comparison of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)architectures on Arabic music genres classification.In this work,to utilize CNNs to develop a practical classification system,the audio data is transformed into a visual representation(spectrogram)using Short Time Fast Fourier Transformation(STFT),then several audio features are extracted using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients(MFCC).Performance evaluation of classifiers is measured with the accuracy score,time to build,and Matthew’s correlation coefficient(MCC).The concluded results demonstrated that AlexNet is considered among the topperforming five CNNs classifiers studied:LeNet5,AlexNet,VGG,ResNet-50,and LSTM-CNN,with an overall accuracy of 96%.展开更多
Teachers are supposed to apply the Genre-Based Approach(GBA)to teach academic writing in the Foundation Year Program(FYP)in the colleges of technology.However,students in these colleges find it difficult to produce a ...Teachers are supposed to apply the Genre-Based Approach(GBA)to teach academic writing in the Foundation Year Program(FYP)in the colleges of technology.However,students in these colleges find it difficult to produce a formal piece of academic work(Al-Husseini,2004).Students seem to face lot of writing problems and so the author conducted this study to have a better understanding of what is happening.He carried a questionnaire study to reveal the causes of difficulties in academic writing.The author restricted his focus on research to lack of practice in applying these skills in students’writing as that is more relevant in the technical colleges’context.The study proved that the absence of practicing learning and teaching academic writing due to the insufficient use of the GBA,partly discourage the adequate mastering of these skills.Following the GBA to tackle such problem might be useful.As a consequence,the author considers this research study’s results as an additional evidence for the value of the GBA in developing the learning and teaching of academic writing skills to FYP Omani students in the technical colleges.展开更多
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.
文摘Playing skill is the basic condition of musical instrument performance, and its level directly influences the timbre and musical expression of the work. In order to make music more appealing, it is essential to improve performance skills. Only by mastering the flute playing skills skillfully, can the work be more vocal, the timbre is soft, and the timbre is more unified, so that the thoughts, feelings and profound connotations of the musical works are more deeply rooted. The generality of music genre, that is to say, can fully show the common principles of music creation in a period of music and the criterion of musical aesthetics. The individuality of the music genre fully demonstrates the individual characteristics of the composer. In the music works in different periods of the musicians, the specific performance we can see the typical character of a music period, different features also can feel different with the composer.
文摘This article investigates general extenders in American English,using a more than one-billion-word corpus(COCA)classified by different genres.In this study,the differences and frequencies of general extenders in different genres are displayed.The study also illustrates the tendency of the use of general extenders in American English from 1990 to 2020.Moreover,the salient features of general extenders used in different genres are observed.The study can provide some practical implications for the use of general extenders for second language learners.
基金Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,Berlin,Germany。
文摘This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges.Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the history of medicine in early modern China.The following covers the concept of epistemic genres that Pomata first developed out of her research on the history of the genres historia,observationes,recipes,medical cases,and the commentary in Europe.She connected these genres variously to empiricism,erudition,scientific observation,norm-making,and recording practice.The paper then evaluates how Pomata and Hanson used epistemic genres as a method for doing cross-cultural research on 17th-18th-century Sino-European medical exchanges.Pomata then wrote a comparative history of the medical case in Europe and China.The article concludes with how Hanson applied the distinction of epistemic genres to analyze the history of Chinese medicine from a new perspective.
基金co-funded by Project 2011wy041J from China Planning office of Philosophy and Social ScienceProject G20190214022 from China State Burenu of Foreign Experts Affairs
文摘This paper investigates the style-specific rhythms of Mandarin in 4 different genres using acoustic measures so as to generate more macro and micro understanding of the speech rhythms of Mandarin.It took News,Dialogue,Short story and Weather forecast as the different genres.All the data were natural and authentic materials downloaded from China CCTV websites and analyzed using 6 acknowledged rhythmic measurements:speech rate,%V,ΔC,VarcoC,rPVI-C and nPVI-V.The findings show that the rhythms of Mandarin in four genres all fall towards the"syllable-timed"ends of the timing continuum,demonstrating a broadly similar rhythmic pattern for Mandarin,but the four genres of Mandarin significantly differ from each other in speech rate,interval measures and pairwise variability indices,revealing the stylistic variations within the same rhythmic pattern,and that current rhythmic measurements vary in their powers in classifying stylistic rhythms of Mandarin with%V,ΔC and nPVI giving the best categorization in this study.
文摘In this paper we propose to focus on so-called speech genres, traditionally understood as a set of tacit instructions broadly constraining the form and content of our discursive productions. More specifi cally, and according to Peirce's categorial scheme, we suggest speech genres can be considered as ‘thirds', or purposeful and general ‘laws' overdetermining speech and its regularities. As such, the study of their semiotic mechanisms would fall within the sphere of Peirce's ‘speculative rhetoric', one of the three branches of his semeiotics. Overall, following Lyne, we suggest that any speech genre relates to three kinds of rhetorical ‘habits' —habits of representation, habits of objectifi cation, and habits of interpretation—which explain a sense of ‘reasonableness' permeating any discursive practice in society. We suggest that the task of discursive rhetorics should be to delineate, for given cultural communities, the productive and interpretive norms and mechanisms which govern the determination of discourse and elicit an intended interpretation on the interpreter's side.
文摘This article is about the movies from Chinese mainland under the production category of minority cinema （shaoshu minzu dianying）, between the years 1940 and 1963. It argues that the taxonomic effort of grouping different non-Hart ethnicities together into a single category of minority cinema is a sociopolitical attempt to construct, maintain and control the definition of ethnic minorities. It calls into question not what is within the film, but the classificatory practices outside of the film collectively engaged by the government, the film industry, the critics and the mass audience. Moving away from the methods of examining the representation and generic conventions of the cinema other scholarship has employed, this article emphasizes the classification system used during the time of the cinema. By comparing it with a similar classificatory problem in Western national history, using an epistemological perspective, this article criticizes the negative impact inevitably left in rhetorically driven classification systems.
基金This article is the phased achievement of the key project“The Salvage,Organization,and Study of Classical Chinese Songs”(108LZD1107)sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China.It is also an achievement of the Capital Normal University's“The Capital Cultural Center Development”2011 coordinated innovation project.
文摘The earliest Chinese poetry is closely linked with songs.Singing promotes the emergence of poetic genres and contributes to the combination of words and the construction of poetic lines.Songs are sung to a regular rhythm and melody.In the early days of humanity,when music was not yet developed,music needed a kind of rhythmic vocal language to accompany it.Meanwhile,people in the early days had a minimal set of words that they needed music to enhance the rhythm of their language.Therefore,music and language complemented each other.The extensive use of interjections in early Chinese poetry directly related to singing.The word combination and artistic embellishment of these poems were continuously refined and evolved in the style of songs.Early poems were artistic creations and employment of rhetorical devices in the form of singing.This characteristic makes early Chinese poetry quite different from the poem composition in written form of later periods.Therefore,studying the language and rhythm of early Chinese poetry should be conducted in the context of singing.The poems in The Book of Songs are divided into three categories:airs(feng风),court hymns(ya雅),and eulogies(song颂)based on their musical attributes.Their artistic forms and language skills were also influenced by singing.The literary forms observed in The Odes of Chu,represented by"The Nine Songs,""The Lamet,""Heavenly Question,""Requiem,"and"Divination,"can be explored from their relationships with singing.During the Han Dynasty,song poetry歌诗featured three major forms and styles,each originating from a specific song form of that era.These song forms included the songs of Chu,guchui army songs鼓吹饶歌,and xianghe songs相和歌.The songs of Chu continue the syntax and line patterns of"The Nine Songs."Guchui army songs represent the earliest form of zayan poetry杂言诗,while xianghe songs predominantly feature poetic lines of five characters.These three song forms led to three literary forms,which underwent a natural evolution in the Han Dynasty.
基金would like to thank the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Qassim University for financial support(QU-APC-2025).
文摘Automated and accurate movie genre classification is crucial for content organization,recommendation systems,and audience targeting in the film industry.Although most existing approaches focus on audiovisual features such as trailers and posters,the text-based classification remains underexplored despite its accessibility and semantic richness.This paper introduces the Genre Attention Model(GAM),a deep learning architecture that integrates transformer models with a hierarchical attention mechanism to extract and leverage contextual information from movie plots formulti-label genre classification.In order to assess its effectiveness,we assessmultiple transformer-based models,including Bidirectional Encoder Representations fromTransformers(BERT),ALite BERT(ALBERT),Distilled BERT(DistilBERT),Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach(RoBERTa),Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately(ELECTRA),eXtreme Learning Network(XLNet)and Decodingenhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention(DeBERTa).Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of DeBERTa-based GAM,which employs a two-tier hierarchical attention mechanism:word-level attention highlights key terms,while sentence-level attention captures critical narrative segments,ensuring a refined and interpretable representation of movie plots.Evaluated on three benchmark datasets Trailers12K,Large Movie Trailer Dataset-9(LMTD-9),and MovieLens37K.GAM achieves micro-average precision scores of 83.63%,83.32%,and 83.34%,respectively,surpassing state-of-the-artmodels.Additionally,GAMis computationally efficient,requiring just 6.10Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second(GFLOPS),making it a scalable and cost-effective solution.These results highlight the growing potential of text-based deep learning models in genre classification and GAM’s effectiveness in improving predictive accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency.With its robust performance,GAM offers a versatile and scalable framework for content recommendation,film indexing,and media analytics,providing an interpretable alternative to traditional audiovisual-based classification techniques.
文摘This study systematically analyzes the genre structure and linguistic features of 42 English abstracts from six internationally renowned medical journals,based on the revised CARS model proposed by Swales.The research findings indicate that medical abstracts typically follow a three-step structure:“Establishing a Research Territory-Establishing a Research Niche-Occupying the Niche”,where the steps“Research Purpose”and“Research Results”are the most frequently utilized,forming the core content of the abstracts.Within the sequence of moves,81%conform to conventional patterns,while a minority of samples exhibit unconventional structures such as inversion,cycling,and repetition.In terms of linguistic features,the present simple tense and active voice are predominantly used,reflecting the universality of the research and the author’s agency;conversely,the simple past tense and passive voice are primarily employed to describe research methods and processes.This study reveals the writing conventions of medical abstracts,providing empirical evidence and genre reference for non-native scholars in the preparation and publication of their work in international journals.
文摘Based on the theory of thematic complexity, a contrastive analysis on 2 sections selected from research articles-method and discussion, was conducted. The differences and similarities between the 2 sections in simple theme, multiple theme, textual theme, interpersonal theme, topical theme and thematic progression were analyzed and concluded. The author believes that the causes of the differences and similarities are the different genre features of the 2 sections and the academic features of the materials selected.
文摘This paper is attempted to explore advanced English teaching from perspective of text analysis. It involves the introduction of culture background, the application of genre-based approach, the appreciation of writing style and the analysis of textual structure through sample studies.
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Based on the genre models of Paltridge (1995) and Knapp and Watkins(1994),the present paper analyzes several second-year non-English majors’argumentative writings of discussion and pedagogical implications are suggested.
文摘Genres are one of the key features that categorize music based on specific series of patterns.However,the Arabic music content on the web is poorly defined into its genres,making the automatic classification of Arabic audio genres challenging.For this reason,in this research,our objective is first to construct a well-annotated dataset of five of the most well-known Arabic music genres,which are:Eastern Takht,Rai,Muwashshah,the poem,and Mawwal,and finally present a comprehensive empirical comparison of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)architectures on Arabic music genres classification.In this work,to utilize CNNs to develop a practical classification system,the audio data is transformed into a visual representation(spectrogram)using Short Time Fast Fourier Transformation(STFT),then several audio features are extracted using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients(MFCC).Performance evaluation of classifiers is measured with the accuracy score,time to build,and Matthew’s correlation coefficient(MCC).The concluded results demonstrated that AlexNet is considered among the topperforming five CNNs classifiers studied:LeNet5,AlexNet,VGG,ResNet-50,and LSTM-CNN,with an overall accuracy of 96%.
文摘Teachers are supposed to apply the Genre-Based Approach(GBA)to teach academic writing in the Foundation Year Program(FYP)in the colleges of technology.However,students in these colleges find it difficult to produce a formal piece of academic work(Al-Husseini,2004).Students seem to face lot of writing problems and so the author conducted this study to have a better understanding of what is happening.He carried a questionnaire study to reveal the causes of difficulties in academic writing.The author restricted his focus on research to lack of practice in applying these skills in students’writing as that is more relevant in the technical colleges’context.The study proved that the absence of practicing learning and teaching academic writing due to the insufficient use of the GBA,partly discourage the adequate mastering of these skills.Following the GBA to tackle such problem might be useful.As a consequence,the author considers this research study’s results as an additional evidence for the value of the GBA in developing the learning and teaching of academic writing skills to FYP Omani students in the technical colleges.
