英语的语法衔接与高级英语阅读理解

现代英语的语法衔接是英语语篇的非结构性特征,是指语篇内部的上下衔接,揭示的是句间不同成分之间的语义和逻辑联系.探讨英语的语法衔接手段,即照应、替代、省略和连接,对高级英语的阅读理解有指导意义,也可更有效地提高高校英语专业高年级学生的阅读理解能力.     

阅读中语境线索对词汇附带习得的影响

词汇是英语的重要组成部分。分析了高职学生英语词汇习得现状,依据相关理论,提出利用语篇语境线索,在阅读中附带习得词汇的学习策略,并阐述了不同语境线索对词汇附带习得所产生的影响。     

英语阅读中概念语法隐喻的识别策略探讨

书面语篇中大量的语法隐喻是造成英语阅读理解困难的一大原因。文章从功能语言学的概念语法隐喻入手,结合具体实例分析概念语法隐喻如何造成语篇理解困难,探索概念语法隐喻的识别策略,为阅读教学提供一种新的思路。     

The Influence of Grammatical Competence on Reading Comprehension

With the development of globalization,English has become one of the most popular languages in the world.In many non-English-speaking countries,English teaching and learning occupies a very important position in their foreign language education.Grammar teaching is an indispensable part of English language teaching in EFL context like China;however,in recent years,grammar teaching has been more or less neglected.Without doubt,grammatical competence is one of the major factors that influence reading efficiency.This paper mainly focuses on examining how a learner’s grammatical competence influences his or her reading comprehension,starting with a comprehensive review of the grammar-related factors involved in reading comprehension.     

Acoustic Cues to Grammatical Structure in Infant-Directed Speech: Cross-Linguistic Evidence

Several theorists have suggested that infants use prosodic cues such as pauses, final lengthening, and pitch changes to identify linguistic units in speech. One potential difficulty with this proposal, however, is that the acoustic shape of an utterance is affected by many factors other than its syntax, including its phonetic, lexical, and discourse structure. This has raised questions about how the infant could use timing and pitch as cues to any aspect of linguistic structure without simultaneously factoring out other effects. Acoustic analyses of connected samples of spontaneous speech addressed to 13.5–14-month-old infants by American English- and by Japanese-speaking mothers revealed that both utterance- and phrase-level acoustic regularities were large enough to be detected in spontaneous speech without correcting for other influences on the same acoustic features. (1) Utterance-final vowels were lengthened and underwent exaggerated pitch changes in both languages, and (2) local acoustic changes in duration (English) or pitch (Japanese) were reliably associated with some phrase boundaries within utterances. These findings suggest that a naive listener could estimate a rough prosodic template for each language based on robust acoustic patterns in observed sentences. We discuss ways in which the learner could combine acoustic and distributional analyses across utterances to acquire language-specific variations in prosodic bracketing cues and to obtain indirect perceptual evidence for the internal structure of utterances.     

从结构特点和语法特点理解英语新闻标题

分析了新闻标题的结构特点和语法特点,以便于广大读者在英语新闻阅读中抓住英语新闻标题的结构特点和语法特点,更好地理解英语新闻。     

阅读策略在大学英语阅读理解教学中的有效运用

阅读是英语语言输入的重要途径,阅读理解能力的培养是大学英语教学的重中之重。笔者认为,大学生要提高阅读理解水平就必须关注阅读策略及其有效运用,教师也需要对学生进行阅读策略训练和指导。本文首先简要说明阅读的类型、阅读理解的模式以及阅读教学的基本过程,其次着重探讨阅读策略及其在大学英语阅读理解教学中的有效运用。     

汉英语法结构与中西思维方式的差异

由于中西方文化、思维方式不同，英汉句子的结构与思维方式也存在一些差异。以往的研究主要侧重于词汇的文化内涵、言语风格、语言的语用研究、非言语交际以及篇章结构等，对语法结构体现的文化特性讨论较少。通过对汉英两种语言在词法和句法上的差异探讨中西方化精神和思维方式的异同也是一种很好的中西文化比较方法。     

Context Cues in Early Reading

An investigation was carried out to examine any significant differences in the use of four types of context cues by good and poor readers in the early stages of their reading development. Sentences incorporating proactive and retroactive syntactic, and proactive and retroactive semantic cues were presented in the form of deletions at three levels of difficulty. Sixty-four subjects, 32 of each sex, were drawn equally from the six to seven and seven to eight year age levels and subdivided into groups of good and poor readers. Results indicated that all groups other than the youngest poor readers found the proactive semantic cues the most useful and made miscues displaying semantic associations across cue types. Implications for an understanding of strategies employed in early reading and approaches for instruction are discussed.     

Grammatical Ambiguity in English

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.     

Judging Words by Their Covers and the Company They Keep: Probabilistic Cues Support Word Learning

Statistical learning may be central to lexical and grammatical development. The phonological and distributional properties of words provide probabilistic cues to their grammatical and semantic properties. Infants can capitalize on such probabilistic cues to learn grammatical patterns in listening tasks. However, infants often struggle to learn labels when performance requires attending to less obvious cues, raising the question of whether probabilistic cues support word learning. The current experiment presented 22‐month‐olds with an artificial language containing probabilistic correlations between words' statistical and semantic properties. Only infants with higher levels of grammatical development capitalized on statistical cues to support learning word‐referent mappings. These findings suggest that infants' sensitivity to correlations between sounds and meanings may support both word learning and grammatical development.     

英语阅读策略及其在大学英语4、6级考试中的应用

大学英语4、6级考试对于大学生们有着重大的意义,4、6级考试的通过与否跟阅读理解又有着密切的联系.如果学生们懂得在阅读中采用恰当的阅读策略,对他们的考试将有很大的帮助.本文将通过对阅读策略和阅读考试的深入分析,探讨如何在阅读考试中有效地应用阅读策略.     

英语书面语篇中表音法的历时与功能分析

本文分析了英语语音的历时变化,包括注音方法,即音标系统;也涉及到表音法,即语音的书面表现形式。在此基础上,讨论了英语表音法与书面语篇的关系及交际的作用,并预测了语音的书面表现形式的应用现状和发展趋势。     

Culture Influence on English Reading Comprehension

Ilie limitation of traditional English teaching is that it often confined to English language skills,ignoring the English language cul?ture backgrounds.However,acquisition of English culture background can not only stimulate ledmers*interests,but also help them master the language more comprehensively.As reading teaching is an impoitant pari of language teaching,culture backgrounds must be integrated into foreign language teaching.     

商务英语中的语法隐喻

隐喻作为一种认知现象,被广泛运用于商务英语中。大量的基本范畴词通过隐喻转义成商务术语,而名词化所形成的语法隐喻使商务英语的严谨性、客观性和信息高密度性得以充分的体现。结合韩礼德关于系统功能语法的相关理论,通过实例对商务英语中的语法隐喻现象展开分析,旨在为研究商务英语以及语法隐喻在实践中的应用提供一个新的视角。     

语法隐喻与英语写作

隐喻,修辞学认为是一种辞格;认知语言学认为是人们认知世界的方式;功能语言学认为是一种语法功能。本文旨在探讨应用语言学对语法隐喻的研究成果进而来指导大学英语写作。     

英文写作中的语法隐喻

基于韩礼德的语法隐喻模式,提出语法隐喻与人的认知发展和范畴化高度相关,代表了认知发展的更高阶段。语法隐喻在阅读中可以起到加强认知效果的作用,因此在英文写作中引入语法隐喻的概念可以指导英文写作,提高英文写作的水平。     

How the Collegians Improve Their English Reading Skills

As a college student, you have to read a broad variety of material. Your success of college English reading depends, in part , on how well you can read and even write and how well you can connect these two processes.