Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory o...Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory of grammatical metaphor,this article discusses the phenomenon of nominalization and its translation strategies in news discourse by analyzing translation examples.It is found that nominalization structure can effectively enhance the informativeness and objectivity of news discourse.When translating from Chinese to English,the translator should take into full consideration of the different characteristics of the two languages,and convert the predicates,subject-predicate structures,verb-object structures and clauses into nominalization structures.Through this translation strategy,the translation will be more in line with the English language characteristics and usage habits,and can accurately convey the information of the original text,finally realizing the effective translation of the language.展开更多
In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts ...In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.展开更多
The role of grammar in language teaching has always been the question that researchers debate.In recent years,grammar knowledge has been distinguished in the foreign language acquisition research,namely the implicit k...The role of grammar in language teaching has always been the question that researchers debate.In recent years,grammar knowledge has been distinguished in the foreign language acquisition research,namely the implicit knowledge and the explicit knowledge(Dai Manchun 2005;Gu Qiyi 2005).As to the reaserch of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge as well as their measurement,it is easy to find that many scholars have studied the role of two different kinds of grammar knowledge in second language development.But the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in second language reading comprehension is too few,not to mention the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in English reading comprehension in the senior high school.The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge and English reading comprehension ability of senior high school students.In addition,since the vocabulary is important to reading comprehension,this factor will also be considered in the study.展开更多
The previous studies of grammatical metaphor mainly emphasized its metafunctions or the classifications and identifications in discourse, and treated rankshift as its mechanism of occurrence. However, the question is ...The previous studies of grammatical metaphor mainly emphasized its metafunctions or the classifications and identifications in discourse, and treated rankshift as its mechanism of occurrence. However, the question is ＂Why does the rankshift make it possible？＂ This paper is going to study grammatical metaphor from a cognitive perspective and will treat cross-grammatical domain mapping as its mechanism of occurrence.展开更多
As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integr...As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integrating the“work for understanding”into the existing pedagogical procedures,both students and the teacher contributed some insightful explanations to this puzzle.With these underling reasons brought to surface,the main players of the classrooms can make some contextually ap?propriate changes to their classroom life.展开更多
The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out ho...The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out how grammatical metaphor can provide a peculiar insight to the translation of Chinese poems.展开更多
This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the f...This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the frequency ofthe errors and what can be done to improve the teaching of L2 （English） writing in the Senior High School. Thestudy used a corpus of essay writings of 150 second year students. The schools and the participants werepurposively selected. The data were analyzed using the content analysis approach. The study identified that thelexical errors in the students＇ writing were due to homophone problems and semantic lexical errors. Thegrammatical errors identified were agreement errors, tense errors, singular-plural （number） errors, prepositionalerrors, and article errors. The study also found that the most frequently committed grammatical error was tenseerrors followed by agreement errors. The implications of these findings to the teaching of English writing are thatteachers where possible should have understanding of both the L1 and L2 of the students and teachers shouldexplicitly teach for transfer, have adequate knowledge of how to identify students＇ writing errors, and use effectiveteaching strategies to improve students＇ English writing. Additionally, teachers should serve as models of usingappropriate English for students to emulate and also create a conducive classroom environment for students toparticipate in class activities. Lastly, teachers should create more opportunities for students to write.展开更多
Music,as an informal variety of language,is an indispensable component of culture,which has permeated into every corner of society,with an extreme intimate tie with people’s everyday life.Song lyrics,the carrier of m...Music,as an informal variety of language,is an indispensable component of culture,which has permeated into every corner of society,with an extreme intimate tie with people’s everyday life.Song lyrics,the carrier of music,are the representation of the style of this language variety,music.Once song lyrics are written,not matched with the melody,they acquire the independent value of literature.As a result,stylistic features of song lyrics are certainly different from those features of poetry,prose,novel,etc.Therefore,it is of necessity and importance to study the stylistic features of song lyrics.Bruno Mars,as a singer and songwriter,is now regarded as one of the most successful solo artists in all over the world.He participates in the creation of his songs.This paper,from the point of stylistics,aims at the analysis of the grammatical features of the pop songs of Bruno Mars on examples of 4 number-one singles on th e Billboard Hot 100.展开更多
Mandarin在(pinyin:zài)is the most frequently used character in representing spatial and temporal relationship.Current studies mostly focus on its lexical meaning and syntactic structure while cognitive features o...Mandarin在(pinyin:zài)is the most frequently used character in representing spatial and temporal relationship.Current studies mostly focus on its lexical meaning and syntactic structure while cognitive features of its grammatical categories have been neglected.This paper investigates into the categorization of zài by conducting a morphosyntactic test among College English majors in China.The results show that:prototypes are organizing the grammatical categories of zài at all levels in terms of intra-categorial gradience;the semantic construal of zài construction could significantly influence the accuracy of the grammatical categorization of zài;the syntactic structure can provide viable cue for the identification of grammatical categories of zài;spatiality,temporality and the status of existing are three essential semantic features encoded by zài,the concurrence of which leads to various degree of inter-categorial vagueness,indicating a conflict between the rigid grammatical classification and the indeterminate nature of the grammatical functions of zai,suggesting the necessity to reconsider the efficacy of applying indiscriminately the Anglo-Saxon grammar into the study of Chinese spatial-temporal constructions.展开更多
The cornerstone and the single most fundamental change in perspective on the nature of language and language learning is, perhaps, the focus on learners as active creators in their learning process, not as passive rec...The cornerstone and the single most fundamental change in perspective on the nature of language and language learning is, perhaps, the focus on learners as active creators in their learning process, not as passive recipients. The study aims at investigating some second language learners＇ meta-linguistic ability in solving multidimensional grammatical problems. The subjects of the present study were 40 Egyptian students who were in their fourth year of academic study in the Department of English and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Menufia University, Egypt. The instrument of this study consisted of pre-test, post-test and individual interviews. Two tasks were used： （1） ＂Sentence Completion＂ task; and （2） ＂Error Recognition and Correction＂ task. Finally, students were interviewed to explain and comment on their performance in the previous tasks. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results were obtained and conclusions were made.展开更多
English is a world-wide language, while it is not all the same in English-speaking countries. This paper analyzes the difference of English among several English-speaking countries from the viewpoints of grammar.
In English, ambiguity often causes trouble and difficulty. This paper aims at introducing some strategies for dealing with various cases of ambiguity by its grammatical characters and some methods to absolve the gramm...In English, ambiguity often causes trouble and difficulty. This paper aims at introducing some strategies for dealing with various cases of ambiguity by its grammatical characters and some methods to absolve the grammatical ambiguity.展开更多
文摘Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory of grammatical metaphor,this article discusses the phenomenon of nominalization and its translation strategies in news discourse by analyzing translation examples.It is found that nominalization structure can effectively enhance the informativeness and objectivity of news discourse.When translating from Chinese to English,the translator should take into full consideration of the different characteristics of the two languages,and convert the predicates,subject-predicate structures,verb-object structures and clauses into nominalization structures.Through this translation strategy,the translation will be more in line with the English language characteristics and usage habits,and can accurately convey the information of the original text,finally realizing the effective translation of the language.
基金funded by the 2022 Hunan Vocational Education Teaching Reform Research Project“Research on the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Ability for Business English Majors in Vocational Colleges Under the Concept of Curriculum Ideology and Politics (Project approval No.:ZJGB2022058)”the 2022 General Funded Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Review Committee“Research on the Development and Diagnostic Evaluation of Critical Thinking Ability Scale for English Learners based on CSE (Project approval No.:XSP22YBZ086).”。
文摘In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.
文摘The role of grammar in language teaching has always been the question that researchers debate.In recent years,grammar knowledge has been distinguished in the foreign language acquisition research,namely the implicit knowledge and the explicit knowledge(Dai Manchun 2005;Gu Qiyi 2005).As to the reaserch of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge as well as their measurement,it is easy to find that many scholars have studied the role of two different kinds of grammar knowledge in second language development.But the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in second language reading comprehension is too few,not to mention the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in English reading comprehension in the senior high school.The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge and English reading comprehension ability of senior high school students.In addition,since the vocabulary is important to reading comprehension,this factor will also be considered in the study.
文摘The previous studies of grammatical metaphor mainly emphasized its metafunctions or the classifications and identifications in discourse, and treated rankshift as its mechanism of occurrence. However, the question is ＂Why does the rankshift make it possible？＂ This paper is going to study grammatical metaphor from a cognitive perspective and will treat cross-grammatical domain mapping as its mechanism of occurrence.
文摘As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integrating the“work for understanding”into the existing pedagogical procedures,both students and the teacher contributed some insightful explanations to this puzzle.With these underling reasons brought to surface,the main players of the classrooms can make some contextually ap?propriate changes to their classroom life.
文摘The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out how grammatical metaphor can provide a peculiar insight to the translation of Chinese poems.
文摘This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the frequency ofthe errors and what can be done to improve the teaching of L2 （English） writing in the Senior High School. Thestudy used a corpus of essay writings of 150 second year students. The schools and the participants werepurposively selected. The data were analyzed using the content analysis approach. The study identified that thelexical errors in the students＇ writing were due to homophone problems and semantic lexical errors. Thegrammatical errors identified were agreement errors, tense errors, singular-plural （number） errors, prepositionalerrors, and article errors. The study also found that the most frequently committed grammatical error was tenseerrors followed by agreement errors. The implications of these findings to the teaching of English writing are thatteachers where possible should have understanding of both the L1 and L2 of the students and teachers shouldexplicitly teach for transfer, have adequate knowledge of how to identify students＇ writing errors, and use effectiveteaching strategies to improve students＇ English writing. Additionally, teachers should serve as models of usingappropriate English for students to emulate and also create a conducive classroom environment for students toparticipate in class activities. Lastly, teachers should create more opportunities for students to write.
文摘Music,as an informal variety of language,is an indispensable component of culture,which has permeated into every corner of society,with an extreme intimate tie with people’s everyday life.Song lyrics,the carrier of music,are the representation of the style of this language variety,music.Once song lyrics are written,not matched with the melody,they acquire the independent value of literature.As a result,stylistic features of song lyrics are certainly different from those features of poetry,prose,novel,etc.Therefore,it is of necessity and importance to study the stylistic features of song lyrics.Bruno Mars,as a singer and songwriter,is now regarded as one of the most successful solo artists in all over the world.He participates in the creation of his songs.This paper,from the point of stylistics,aims at the analysis of the grammatical features of the pop songs of Bruno Mars on examples of 4 number-one singles on th e Billboard Hot 100.
文摘Mandarin在(pinyin:zài)is the most frequently used character in representing spatial and temporal relationship.Current studies mostly focus on its lexical meaning and syntactic structure while cognitive features of its grammatical categories have been neglected.This paper investigates into the categorization of zài by conducting a morphosyntactic test among College English majors in China.The results show that:prototypes are organizing the grammatical categories of zài at all levels in terms of intra-categorial gradience;the semantic construal of zài construction could significantly influence the accuracy of the grammatical categorization of zài;the syntactic structure can provide viable cue for the identification of grammatical categories of zài;spatiality,temporality and the status of existing are three essential semantic features encoded by zài,the concurrence of which leads to various degree of inter-categorial vagueness,indicating a conflict between the rigid grammatical classification and the indeterminate nature of the grammatical functions of zai,suggesting the necessity to reconsider the efficacy of applying indiscriminately the Anglo-Saxon grammar into the study of Chinese spatial-temporal constructions.
文摘The cornerstone and the single most fundamental change in perspective on the nature of language and language learning is, perhaps, the focus on learners as active creators in their learning process, not as passive recipients. The study aims at investigating some second language learners＇ meta-linguistic ability in solving multidimensional grammatical problems. The subjects of the present study were 40 Egyptian students who were in their fourth year of academic study in the Department of English and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Menufia University, Egypt. The instrument of this study consisted of pre-test, post-test and individual interviews. Two tasks were used： （1） ＂Sentence Completion＂ task; and （2） ＂Error Recognition and Correction＂ task. Finally, students were interviewed to explain and comment on their performance in the previous tasks. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results were obtained and conclusions were made.
文摘English is a world-wide language, while it is not all the same in English-speaking countries. This paper analyzes the difference of English among several English-speaking countries from the viewpoints of grammar.
文摘In English, ambiguity often causes trouble and difficulty. This paper aims at introducing some strategies for dealing with various cases of ambiguity by its grammatical characters and some methods to absolve the grammatical ambiguity.
