Introduction to the F. L. T Terms

Phonetics The study of the speech sounds of a language,either in relation to their physical properties or in relation to the way in which they are produced by the human organs ofspeech. Phonology The study of the way in which sounds areorganised in languages into systems which convey meaning     

A Famous Mathematician

Hua Luogeng was born in a poor family in Jiangsu Province on November 12, 1910. He did not get good marks when he studied in primary school. While he was in junior high school, he began to show his great interest in maths and his maths teacher found tha…     

Montage in The Sound and the Fury

Montage is a term in French architecture originally. Visual media borrows it to refer to the pictorial technique in which cut—out illustrations and fragments are re-arranged, producing a new composite picture with several different images. Literary field applies this artistic technique as a vehicle to create works, especially for stream-of-consciousness fiction which flourished in the early 20 thcentury. This article turns to account for the similarity of montage and literature to divide the writing technique into narrative montage and space montage and dissect the montage use in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury which is distinguished by its space-skipping and mixed-expression.     

The Application of Cooperative Principle in Translation

The cooperative principle in conversation proposed by Herberr Paul Grice is an important theory in pragmatics,which contrib utes a lot to translation.It introduces pragmatics to translation field and injects fresh vigor to translation practice.Translation is also a kind of conversation some time,thus it should also obey the Cooperative Principle and its maxims.Sometimes,translators have to violate some maxims in order to obey the cooperative principle better in some extent.This article will show some examples in which cooperative princi ples can be used as a guide or a scale to improve the quality of translation.     

论文学翻译中的语体

Translation is a subject which needs to draw on findings and theories of other related subjects in order to develop andformalize its own methods. Stylistics is a borderline subject which has a great deal to offer to the translation studies. Since a lotof problems emerging in literary translation can be effectively solved by stylistic analysis, the present paper discusses tbe role ofstylistics in literary translation in deciding on methods of translation: literal translation or free translation and overcoming diffi-culties in translating poems.     

Helping Students to Internalize the Grammar Rules Through Communicative Activities

English grammar tends to be treated as a kind of knowledge explained and transmitted at tertiary level in China.Students engage in memorizing grammar rules,but they are unable to use them correctly and appropriately when speaking and writing.This article attempts to help students to make use of the rules through meaningful practice in grammar class.It is based on communicative approach and of a kind of eclecticism.The activities mentioned provide students with some opportunities to interact in classroom and use knowledge of English grammar in social contexts in which communication takes place and through which the rules will be internalized accordingly.     

A Brief Study of English as Lingua Franca in Business Communication

From the linguistic aspect,lingua franca is a kind of language which is used habitually by people whose mother tongues are different in order to facilitate communication between them.It may be natural or miscellaneous.In this thesis,examples are taken to show the characteristics of the lingua franca used in business trade with a view to summing up the general feature of this kind of language which is bound to be helpful to some extent in one way or another.     

A Research on the Improvement of Pragmatic Competence in College English Teaching

A core issue in foreign language teaching is to foster actual competence of language learners to practically utilize language, which is called pragmatic competence. But compared with traditional linguistic competence, the levels of their pragmatic competence need to be further understood. Thus it is essential to make an investigation into this. From the investigation results it is expected to reveal from which aspects teachers and students should carry on in order to improve pragmatic competence and meet foreign language learning need in new age.     

How Do the Movies Do It?（高一适用）

Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burned down or a bridge was destroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship sank into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without harming the people in the film.The man who knows the answer is the special-effects man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film industry. He may be ordered to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. And he may also be asked to create a special effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the sue-     

Informal and formal approaches to communicative language teaching

The main purpose of this article is to give some clarity to the use of the term "communicative" in describing approaches to foreign or second language teaching. It is suggested that a distinction be drawn between "informal" communicative approaches which promote second language "acquisition", and "formal" communicative approaches which promote "learning". This distinction between "acquisition" and "learning", which is taken from the work of Stephen Krashen, is carefully explained and the conditions for achieving both in the classroom considered. In addition it is suggested that there is a need actively to teach pupils how to make use of conscious "learnt" knowledge in order to "monitor" their performance in a second language appropriately.     

Can adults gain a native-like accent

There is a hot debate in linguistics and second language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire a second language is naturally connected with age.This article explores whether one's age at which he begins to learn a second language is a contributing factor in his accent.With contrastive analysis,the article comes to the conclusion that it is rare for late learners to have a native-like accent.     

阅读理解五篇

A A ride in a cable-car is one of the most exciting and enjoyable experiences a child can have. In Switzerland, which is the home of the cable-car, it is used mostly to take tourists up the slope of a mountain, to a restaurant from which one can have a bird's-eye view of the surrounding country, or to the top of ski-run, from which, in winter, skiers glide down the snow-cov- ered slope on skis, in Singapore, however, the cable-car takes one from the summit of a hill on the main island     

The Comparison Between Two Spinsters in Winesburg,Ohio

Sherwood Anderson is highly skilled in portraying grotesques distorted by the industrialized society. This paper is to unfold the repression and inner struggle of the two typical spinster images in the novel Winesburg Ohio, the masculine small town, which entraps women with the conventional codes. They achieve economic independence in their earlier years which is their first attempt to overthrow the yoke of man-dominated world. They employ different means to release the deep buried passion and eagerness to love and to be loved so that they can shake off loneliness and repression. However, in the climatic moments, they fail in their seek for self-fulfillment and are doomed to be tossed between traditional women roles and modern awakening.     

Adapting Grice’s maxims in the teaching of writing

Grice’s maxims,which define the conditions for efficient spoken communication,can be adapted to the teaching of writing by providing both teachers and writers with a way of understanding successful and unsuccessful written correspondence in mono-and cross-cultural settings.A survey of lay readers’ responses to a sample letter which show that,while there are individual differences in the way these maxims are interpreted,readers expect clarity,brevity,and sincerity,and writing which fails to meet these expectations will be unfavorably received.Also discussed are the issues of contrastive rhetoric,and ways of helping writers to position themselves in relation to their real or imagined reader.     

Morbid mentality of Hepzibah in The House of the Seven Gables

Loneliness is one of the central themes in the works of Nathanial Hawthorne,which,to some extent,is a reflection of Hawthorn’s keen sensitiveness to the existential anxiety of man in his times.The paper explores the theme of alienation that is exposed in the The House of the Seven of Seven Gables by making a careful analysis of morbid mentality of Hepzibah,which is mainly displayed in Hepzibah’s alienated feelings to the outside society and abnormal passion for Clifford.     

Book Review:The Socially Networked Classroom:Teaching in the New Media Age

This book is greatly appreciated for its collection of various innovative activities which could be applied in different levels of technology-savvy classrooms.It is regarded as guidance to show paths for language educators to teach in digital age,although most of the teachers today are digital immigrants who "have become fascinated by and adopted many,or most aspects of the new technology are,and always will be compared to them"(Prensky,2001).They have to attempt to equip themselves with the knowledge of new media,which aims to provide the current students with their needs to become fully literate in this digital age.However,when the Internet began to arrive in schools,it was embraced by educators already seasoned in the challenges of change.     

特丽莎修女

A great star lighted up the human firmament brightly from 1910 to 1997. She was Mother Teresa, one of the world's finest human beings and truly one of the greatest humanitarians in the history of humankind.     

Teaching Listening in an Effective Way

How to teaching and learning listening in an effective way, which perplexes not only teachers but also students. The paper introduces some practice in author’s routine teaching in order to improve our listening and learning.     

Analysis of Second-Order Effect in Frame

The second-order effect is the interaction between the vertical load and the deformation in a vertically forced element. In order to deduce a more brief but practical method, which has considered the second-order effect in a sway frame, some factors which affect the second-order deformation in a sway frame should be generalized based on a more accurate method. Nonlinear finite element is adopted in this paper, and according to this theory, a program, which can calculate the inner force and the deformation of the sway frame considering the second-order effects is coded.     

完形填空分级演练

King Akbar was in the habit of putting ridges and puzzles to his people. He often asked__ which were strange. His people had to use words in a __ way to answer these questions.