Bilingual Language Acquisition:The Relation of First and Second Lamguage in The Development of Bilingual Proficiency

Bilingualism is becoming increasingly common because of more frequent immigration and the new teaching concept adopted by many schools.One becomes bilingual either by acquiring two languages at the same time in childhood or by learning a second language sometime after acquiring their first language.To know more about bilingualism is of great importance,particularly to language teachers and learners.This article tries to analyze a bilingual’s language development on the basis of existing researches by some great linguists and tries to find out how to realize the positive language transfer in English teaching and learning through the interaction between two languages.     

A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Puns

Pun is a usual figure of speech in English and Chinese.Pun,as a common rhetoric,can enrich language expressions,enforce the effect of language.In everyday life,in communication and literature works is widely used.Puns in English and Chinese have much in common in the formation,ways of expressions,functions.However,as languages and culture differ,there are some differences between them.The translation between English and Chinese puns is considered most challenging in the field of translation.This thesis tries to talk about some practical translation methods of puns.     

The Critical Discussion of the Second Language Learning in the Classroom in China

Over the past decades,Chinese students have employed various methods with a large amount of time and enormous efforts on learning English.However,the result is still far from satisfaction.Therefore,how to learn English more effectively in the classroom has become a major concern not only for students,but also for teachers and linguists.This paper consists of two sections,and each section has the same three topics,exploring the second language learning issues according to the literature review and my personal English learning context in China.Hopefully,it can help Chinese students and teachers to have a better understanding of some common issues related to the second language learning.     

Be sure to win the“war”

Today there is a kind of strong and dangerous disease called SARS. It is different from the common pneumonia. Many people have got it and some of them have died. Now more and more people are worried about it.How to prevent the disease?First we must have good and healthy living habits. Everyone should keep     

The Comparison between English and Chinese Idioms

Language is the carrier of culture as it carries the information of particular language and culture of folk custom.Idiom,which is called"custom fossil",is formed during a long course of language application.As an important linguistic phenomenon,id iom acts an important role in cross-cultural communication and cultural information transmission.With the more frequent com munication between the English people and the Chinese people,there is a great demand for more research on English and Chi nese idioms.The paper analyzes the different classifications and characteristics of English and Chinese idioms and explore the fac tors that cause the differences between the two kinds of idioms.The aim of the paper is to help language learners to enhance the effectiveness of cross-cultural communication.     

短文改错5题

一 There are more than 3 000 languages in world today, but only about 6 of them are major languages. More than 300 million peoples speak English as their first or native language.Another 300 million speak it as a second language.No one know how many people speak it as foreign language. Chinese is only language with more speakers than English. This is because the huge population of Chinese. English is the world' s the most important language and it is the most wide used language.It is the language of international business,research and science.More than three-fourths of the world's mail(邮件) is written by English.More than three-fifths of the world's radio stations use English.     

Rethink Chinese Culture Mentioned by Foreigners and Find a Way to Make It Heard

As China is getting more and more attention and Chinese culture is marching to the world, there come many internet videos on how foreigners think about China. By analyzing two videos"Chinese in foreigners’ eyes"and"China, How is it", I am going to talk about the most impressive culture mentioned by foreigners in these videos with further discussion. And only when we deeply understand our culture, not just see it by its out layer, can we explain our culture to the world effectively. In the first part, I will talk about the most impressive Chinese culture in foreigners’ eyes, and in the second part I will talk about some effective and objective ways to show what China is about.     

Politeness Language in English and Chinese

Politeness is a very important topic in modern linguistics. With the development of the study of linguistics, a lot of people lay the emphasis on the study of politeness language. It can be observed in all languages and cultures as a social phenomenon, which plays an important role in individuals’ linguistic behavior. But due to different culture, different politeness principles and other reasons, different peo ple have different understandings about the definition of politeness, and they deal with politeness in different ways. Through different study background, principle and theory, this paper focuses on the politeness language in English and Chinese culture caused the differences. Politeness languages are mainly expressed in the forms of address, greeting, congratulation, appreciation and apology . The biggest difference between English and Chinese is that the Chinese system is profusion and complicated, but the English one is quite simple. Age, income, marriage and religion, etc. are taboos in English and people in western countries like to talk about weather when they meet each other; greeting in Chinese almost includes different things about one’s life. Appreciation in Chinese is not used frequently. Peo ple do not often say "thank you" to their families or friends. Appreciation in English can be used among families, friends, and colleagues and so on. At the end of this thesis, a conclusion is drawn; limitations and some suggestions of the research are stated!     

Language Taboo in Chinese and English Based on Different Cultures

Language taboos are common in all languages all over the world.The taboos refer to some topics,words and language factors that can not or is not suitable in certain cases.There are lots of language taboos in both Chinese and English.As the two languages are studied and taught in the two countries,people find the differences between Chinese and English taboos are com mon and hard to master and use in daily life.This paper analyzes the differences between the two languages’taboos from differ ent point of view to help to master and use the taboos correctly.     

英汉委婉语对比及翻译(英文)

Euphemism can be regarded as a universal phenomenon in human language.It is also an important linguistic strategy in communication.English and Chinese euphemisms usually have a shared topic,such as death,disease and sex.Therefore,to some degree,English and Chinese euphemisms share some common features.However,owing to the different social and cultural background,English and Chinese euphemisms still have much difference between each other.This paper is to take some typical examples in both English and Chinese to compare euphemisms in the two languages,and try to probe some strategies about how to improve the translation of euphemisms between English and Chinese.     

The Making of English:A Story Of Three Invasions and A Cultural Revolution

English language,which orignated in England,is now widely spoken on six continentsand was the native language of more than 35 0 million people by the late 2 0 th century.Itis themother tongue of more people than any other language except Mandarin Chinese.It is themost widely taughtforeign language and is also the mostwidely used second language.Eng-lish is a member of the western group ofthe Genmanic languages(itself partof the Indo- Eu-ropean language family) and is closely related to Fris…     

On Positive Transfer of Native Language in the Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Native language plays an important role in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. When it comes to the transfer of the native language, we always think about the negative interference of it, even if we know that language transfer can be divided into positive transfer and negative transfer. In fact, we should not neglect these common areas between Chinese and English, which lead to the positive transfer and strengthen the efficient process of language learning. Here, there have been listed four levels of common areas between Chinese and English to illustrate the positive transfer from Chinese to English.     

An Analysis of Gender Difference on Discourse Style

Gender difference is a popular research topic for many disciplines. It has also aroused the interest of an increasing number of linguists. This article attempts to explore one of the aspects of gender difference in language, that is, discourse styles of male and female in speech communication and adopts two approaches —the dominance approach and the difference approach,proposed by some researchers to explain different discourse styles of men and women and show its socio-cultural reasons in order to enhance people’s understanding of the relationship between language and gender.     

On Chinese Student Learning English

English is regarded as one of the most important languages in the world. It is an international official language used by more than half of the earth. As the pace of globalization speed up, different countries contact with each other more frequently. Under this circum stance, China appears a wave of interest in learning English. Today, China has become the largest market for English teaching in the world. The discussion in this paper is focused on the importance of English learning and some experiences in English learning. It gives us a vivid explanation about the interactive functions of English learning and Chinese language study.     

Differences between Chinese and English Cultures Reflected in the Ex pressions Related to Animals

Cultural differences are permeating in any form of language,including some idioms related with animals.Cross-cultur al communication,which is the ultimate goal of the foreign language studying,has been more and more popular in the life of the people from different countries,yet people do so with a little or no awareness of cultural differences.Though people may feel comfortable with standard literary speech,they will probably find themselves in hot water when confronted with idiomatic ex pressions.Idiomatic expressions are a mirror of a distinct cultural connotation is of vital importance.The thesis confines the idiomatic expression only to the animals,for most of the animals are relatively familiar to human be ings and the idiomatic expressions are rich in both Chinese and English.These idiomatic expressions reflect cultural differences more than cultural similarities for each of them has its own origins and shows its own national coloring.The cultural differences can be mainly divided into three categories:cultural conflict,cultural adaptation,and cultural vacancy.Only by acquainting with and awareness of these cultural differences,can people use such idiomatic expressions appropriately and understand them correctly.As a matter of fact,culture and language are interdependent.The awareness of cultural backgrounds is essential for cross-cul tural communication.I hope that every learner will realize the great importance of cultural awareness,and every learner’s good intention will receive pleasing responses.     

A Comparison between Life of Chinese Women and That of American Ones

The United States is the largest developed country in the world and China is the largest developing country in the world. As America and China are playing increasingly important roles in the world, people are eager to learn more about these countries. This paper makes a comparison of the lives of Chinese and American women so as to give readers an idea of the cultures, customs and values of these two countries. The discussion of women’s lives in China and America is conducted from three aspects, namely, occupation, women and family, women’s education.     

Criteria to Define the Standard Language—A Survey on Standard Welsh English

How to define Standard Language is one of the most fundamental issues in language variation research.This article,unlike those focusing more on the linguistic features,explores and checks the criteria to define Standard English from a sociolinguistic view and in a uniquely bilingual environment.The results are only partly in line with many well-known assumptions about the standard language and some new criteria are put forward.     

A Comparative Study on David Hawkes and Xianyi/Gladys Yang’s Translations of Chinese Common Sayings in Hong Lou Meng

Honglou Meng is an encyclopedia of Chinese language in which includes many different Chinese linguistic features, e.g. idioms, common sayings, poems etc. There are 109 Chinese common sayings in the first 80 chapters of the novel. Most Chinese common sayings contain figurative meanings and the images involved are usually vivid and culture-specific; therefore it is very difficult to translate them. It is found that David Hawkes is more creative and use more free translation while the Yangs use more literal translation. This supports Feng Qinghua’s suggestion that the Yangs prefer to use literal translation while David Hawkes is inclined to use free translation.     

A Comparison of Demonstratives in English and Chinese

This paper re-examines the comparison of the demonstratives in English and Chinese,which has been discussed by many linguists.They argue that the demonstratives in English and Chinese don’t correspond symmetrically,and that ’这’ in Chinese,for example,is more widely used than this in English.Earlier approaches to the comparison in terms of space,time and text distance are reviewed.This paper assumes that,compared with English demonstratives,the proximity indicated by Chinese demonstratives is more influenced by psychological factors.This paper holds that the space,time and text distance as well as psychological distance act upon each other,co-determining the choice of demonstratives in Chinese.     

上期《如何写好表格、图表类作文》练习的参考范文(英文)

Dear Sir / Madam, I’m Yang Yang,a senior student of Changzhou No.1 High School.I’m writing to tell you something about some Chinese tourists’ bad manners abroad. In the past,only few people could afford overseas tours.In 2003,about 10,000 people went abroad for holiday.However,with people’s life getting better and better,more and more people spend their holidays abroad. There is a sharp increase in the number of overseas travelers in 2009,compared with the year 2006,when the