This study explores the impact of generative artificial intelligence(AI)-enabled instruction on critical thinking in English essay writing among 1,050 first-year English majors across four colleges.Pedagogical strateg...This study explores the impact of generative artificial intelligence(AI)-enabled instruction on critical thinking in English essay writing among 1,050 first-year English majors across four colleges.Pedagogical strategies,including facilitating critical responses and emphasizing real-world application,are identified to enhance generative AI’s impact.Both qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal significant post-intervention improvements in critical thinking skills.This research contributes to understanding how generative AI can effectively foster critical thinking in educational settings.展开更多
This essay focuses on three main characters in Thomas Hardy＇s The woodlanders, and analyzes their psychological complex： John South--Tree Complex, Giles Winterborne--Inferiority Complex, and Marty South---Survival o...This essay focuses on three main characters in Thomas Hardy＇s The woodlanders, and analyzes their psychological complex： John South--Tree Complex, Giles Winterborne--Inferiority Complex, and Marty South---Survival of the Fittest, showing the relationship between man and nature.展开更多
Nowadays the human activity has increased the pressure on surface water quality. The purpose of this study is to assess the environmental quality of the Seman River water (in Southern part of Albania) through a 5-year...Nowadays the human activity has increased the pressure on surface water quality. The purpose of this study is to assess the environmental quality of the Seman River water (in Southern part of Albania) through a 5-year monitoring program of 14 parameters (pH, DO, EC, TSS, Cl<sup>-</sup>, <span style="white-space:nowrap;">NO<sup>-</sup><sub style="margin-left:-7px;">3</sub></span>, Total-N, Total-P, BOD<sub>5</sub>, Cu<sup>2+</sup>, Ni<sup>2+</sup>, Pb<sup>2+</sup>, Cd<sup>2+</sup> and Temp. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">°</span>C), that determine the environmental status of this waterbody, as well as the application of WQI (CCME) through a multivariable approach. Based on the cluster dendogram results, it can be concluded that during wet seasons such as winter-spring, there are more sediments which influence other physic-chemical parameters, while during dry seasons (summer-autumn) there are more decomposition reactions of elements released by sediments and influenced by temperature. PCA analysis determines whether the groups of factors correlate strongly or not, depending on the internal structures of the groups and variables “heavy” or latent and vary from season to season with differentiated contributions to the water quality. All three factors influence WQI to the extent of 56% in the summer and spring season and 64% and 40% in the autumn and winter season, respectively.展开更多
1 Introduction In twentieth century language teaching classroom,most of teachers tended to stress grammatical rather than cultural purposes and this phenomenon has been recognized by related researchers as a potential...1 Introduction In twentieth century language teaching classroom,most of teachers tended to stress grammatical rather than cultural purposes and this phenomenon has been recognized by related researchers as a potential severe trap in the EFL(English as a Foreign Language)teaching.Lo Bianco(2003,pp.11-12)presents that culture is always absent from EFL classroom in twentieth century,and teachers just focuses on linguistic knowledge,such as vocabulary and grammar rules,and just introduces a little culture of foreign language in the end of the class which makes language learning lack of connection and deep understanding.Thus,teachers should not solely consider language education as teaching linguistic codes,展开更多
In the filed of Second Language Acquisition (SLA),language learners'final competence and learning efficiency could be greatly influenced by individual differences,including language aptitude,learners'motivatio...In the filed of Second Language Acquisition (SLA),language learners'final competence and learning efficiency could be greatly influenced by individual differences,including language aptitude,learners'motivation,first language context and age.These individual differences mentioned above are always regarded as the remarkable parameters in the study on SLA.As one of the most influential parameter,age newly has been re-fetched by contemporary SLA researchers and in this research field critical and sensitive period hypothesis are set as highly valuable research target to explore the problems of learning rate,teaching method ology and language policy.This article firstly introduces the basic theoretical framework of critical and sensitive period hypothesis,and then explores the relation of these two hypotheses and the SLA by existing experimental results.Based on detailed theoretical introduction and exploration of recent research experiment,implications of critical and sensitive period hypothesis are further ap plied in the Chinese teaching context,i.e.the feasibility of age-based multi-methodology teaching method.Meanwhile,exist ing limitations of current major research in this filed also will be presented in order to assist the future experimental study in Chi nese teaching context,especially university ESL teaching.展开更多
Abstract This paper is a psychological approach to the heroine of Gone with the Wind written by Margaret Mitchell.It attempts an analysis of Scarlett's character from the different social roles she plays,and expla...Abstract This paper is a psychological approach to the heroine of Gone with the Wind written by Margaret Mitchell.It attempts an analysis of Scarlett's character from the different social roles she plays,and explains how her complex character affects her life.Scarlett,an electrifying character with a changeable temper,displays her vanity,selfishness,responsibility,courage and intelligence during different stages of her life,thus leaving an ever-lasting deep impression on the reader.展开更多
Using a liquid approach,the authors analyze the intercultural discourse of Taiwan region students who had taken part in a short term exchange program with a Malaysian university.The four participants were graduating i...Using a liquid approach,the authors analyze the intercultural discourse of Taiwan region students who had taken part in a short term exchange program with a Malaysian university.The four participants were graduating in Mandarin Chinese in their home institution and were following a Chinese program in multilingual Malaysia.Data were collected through focus groups held in Mandarin Chinese and focused on their experience in the host country.The authors analyze how participants talk about themselves,Malaysians,and their adaptation to the host country.The processes of essentialization and othering that occur and put in contrast the host and the home contexts are similar to those held in Asia-to-Europe mobility and very far from an“interculturality without culture”(Dervin,2010).If we focus on the construction of discourses,this Asia-to-Asia mobility forces us to relativize the opposition of cultures as an explanation for difficulties encountered by mobile students.展开更多
基金General Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Jiangsu Universities in 2024“Research on the Mining and Integration Strategy of Ideological and Political Elements in Business English Major Courses”(2024SISZ0787)。
文摘This study explores the impact of generative artificial intelligence(AI)-enabled instruction on critical thinking in English essay writing among 1,050 first-year English majors across four colleges.Pedagogical strategies,including facilitating critical responses and emphasizing real-world application,are identified to enhance generative AI’s impact.Both qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal significant post-intervention improvements in critical thinking skills.This research contributes to understanding how generative AI can effectively foster critical thinking in educational settings.
文摘This essay focuses on three main characters in Thomas Hardy＇s The woodlanders, and analyzes their psychological complex： John South--Tree Complex, Giles Winterborne--Inferiority Complex, and Marty South---Survival of the Fittest, showing the relationship between man and nature.
文摘Nowadays the human activity has increased the pressure on surface water quality. The purpose of this study is to assess the environmental quality of the Seman River water (in Southern part of Albania) through a 5-year monitoring program of 14 parameters (pH, DO, EC, TSS, Cl<sup>-</sup>, <span style="white-space:nowrap;">NO<sup>-</sup><sub style="margin-left:-7px;">3</sub></span>, Total-N, Total-P, BOD<sub>5</sub>, Cu<sup>2+</sup>, Ni<sup>2+</sup>, Pb<sup>2+</sup>, Cd<sup>2+</sup> and Temp. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">°</span>C), that determine the environmental status of this waterbody, as well as the application of WQI (CCME) through a multivariable approach. Based on the cluster dendogram results, it can be concluded that during wet seasons such as winter-spring, there are more sediments which influence other physic-chemical parameters, while during dry seasons (summer-autumn) there are more decomposition reactions of elements released by sediments and influenced by temperature. PCA analysis determines whether the groups of factors correlate strongly or not, depending on the internal structures of the groups and variables “heavy” or latent and vary from season to season with differentiated contributions to the water quality. All three factors influence WQI to the extent of 56% in the summer and spring season and 64% and 40% in the autumn and winter season, respectively.
文摘1 Introduction In twentieth century language teaching classroom,most of teachers tended to stress grammatical rather than cultural purposes and this phenomenon has been recognized by related researchers as a potential severe trap in the EFL(English as a Foreign Language)teaching.Lo Bianco(2003,pp.11-12)presents that culture is always absent from EFL classroom in twentieth century,and teachers just focuses on linguistic knowledge,such as vocabulary and grammar rules,and just introduces a little culture of foreign language in the end of the class which makes language learning lack of connection and deep understanding.Thus,teachers should not solely consider language education as teaching linguistic codes,
文摘In the filed of Second Language Acquisition (SLA),language learners'final competence and learning efficiency could be greatly influenced by individual differences,including language aptitude,learners'motivation,first language context and age.These individual differences mentioned above are always regarded as the remarkable parameters in the study on SLA.As one of the most influential parameter,age newly has been re-fetched by contemporary SLA researchers and in this research field critical and sensitive period hypothesis are set as highly valuable research target to explore the problems of learning rate,teaching method ology and language policy.This article firstly introduces the basic theoretical framework of critical and sensitive period hypothesis,and then explores the relation of these two hypotheses and the SLA by existing experimental results.Based on detailed theoretical introduction and exploration of recent research experiment,implications of critical and sensitive period hypothesis are further ap plied in the Chinese teaching context,i.e.the feasibility of age-based multi-methodology teaching method.Meanwhile,exist ing limitations of current major research in this filed also will be presented in order to assist the future experimental study in Chi nese teaching context,especially university ESL teaching.
文摘Abstract This paper is a psychological approach to the heroine of Gone with the Wind written by Margaret Mitchell.It attempts an analysis of Scarlett's character from the different social roles she plays,and explains how her complex character affects her life.Scarlett,an electrifying character with a changeable temper,displays her vanity,selfishness,responsibility,courage and intelligence during different stages of her life,thus leaving an ever-lasting deep impression on the reader.
文摘Using a liquid approach,the authors analyze the intercultural discourse of Taiwan region students who had taken part in a short term exchange program with a Malaysian university.The four participants were graduating in Mandarin Chinese in their home institution and were following a Chinese program in multilingual Malaysia.Data were collected through focus groups held in Mandarin Chinese and focused on their experience in the host country.The authors analyze how participants talk about themselves,Malaysians,and their adaptation to the host country.The processes of essentialization and othering that occur and put in contrast the host and the home contexts are similar to those held in Asia-to-Europe mobility and very far from an“interculturality without culture”(Dervin,2010).If we focus on the construction of discourses,this Asia-to-Asia mobility forces us to relativize the opposition of cultures as an explanation for difficulties encountered by mobile students.
