Constructing Writer Identity in Developing Second Language Writer’s Academic Writing

Writer identity in academic writing has long been ignored by developing L2 writers.Moreover,research has much focused on the reader in shaping writing,and treated the role of the writer as unproblematic.In this essay,the construction of writer identity in developing writers’academic writing practice will be explored through a review of some relevant literature research and gain insights for the development of writer apprentices and writing instruction.     

Gender Is Cultural Rather Than Natural—Jane Campion's The Piano

Sex and gender have been confusingly categorised by many scholars.Sex refers to biological characteristics;gender,can also be influenced by biology but does not determined by it.Unlike sex,which is determined by nature at birth,gender is a social construct specifying the culturally prescribed roles that men and women are to follow and represent.In order to argue that gender attaches to culture and that gender identity is shaped socially and culturally,this essay analyses Jane Campion’s The Piano from three perspectives.Firstly,the essay will examine the way people in the film represent their gender characters through three repeatedly demonstrated narrative motifs,clothing,the axe and the piano,to illustrate that gender is performative and that cultural gender identities advocate specific performances in terms of behaviour,speech,views,etc.(Butler,2011).Then,through an analysis of the different gazes of the characters in the film,the essay indicates that social and cultural interaction between the genders can go beyond and blur the boundaries of the stereotypical categories of male and female.In the third section,the essay will argue that social rules and discourse also play a prominent role in shaping people’s gender,by discussing how the characters represent and re-define their gender identity under the pressure of the patriarchal society they inhabit.     

An Ecocritical Reading of Tess of the d’ Urbervilles

Tess of the d’Urbervilles,Tomas Hardy’s masterpiece,was published in 1891,marking a turning point in Hardy’s literary life.This essay attempts to analyze Tess of the d’Urbervilles in the light of Ecocriticism and seeks to throw a new light on this novel.Through a close study of the relationship between Tess and nature,the essay interprets the process of Tess’s tragedy as the inharmonious relationship between nature and the modern civilization which is represented by Alec and Angel.In this way,this thesis tries to provide a fresh perspective that may enable us to realize the importance of environmental protection and have a better understanding of this novel.     

Imageries Connected with Border in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

This essay indicates the intertwined relation between border and identity in Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones.The author makes a combination of the recurring imageries like"River","Parsley"and"Twins"related to border—the Massacre River as a metaphor to emphasize this boundary which causes all the sufferings of Haitian people like Amabelle and the new hope the survivor are seeking for.     

A Self-reflection on the Questioning in the English Class in Vocational College

Questioning is a indispensible part of classroom teaching and a measurement of classroom performance in our vocational college. But there is not enough importance had attached on it in the author’s class. In this essay,the author researched on previous theories and peer studies on questioning,in accordance on the specific situation of our college,trying to figure out how to improve the questioning behavior in the class.     

Cultural Identity in the Development of Cultural Trade in the Globalized Age

The nature of cultural trade is the acknowledgement and acceptance of the cultural identity of different nationalities or countries. Cultural trade have its root in the contention for the resources of cultural identity. As a matter of fact, globalization is not simply homogenization; however, it enhances the diversity of cultural identity.Based on the economic principle, this paper aims to analyze the influences of globalization on culture, and explain the phenomenon of cultural identity caused during this process. Furthermore, through the analysis of the role of cultural identity, some feasible solutions to enhance the Chinese competitiveness of cultural trade are suggested.     

The Features and Translation Strategies of Advertising English

Advertisement has aroused great interest of linguists,psychologists,sociologists,economists and even aesthetes.Advertising English has its unique features in various linguistic branches.It is a challenge to understand advertising English for people,especially non-native English speakers.This essay is intended to provide a systematic analysis of advertising English on the applied linguistics.This is followed by an analysis on the features and translation strategies of advertising English.However,the main thrust of this essay is not devoted to a purely linguistic study,but built on the theoretical reflections of equivalent theory and cultural conversion about translation strategies.This essay attempts to find the joint reflecting the similar functions of both English and Chinese.     

Etymological study of Wuthering Heights

In Wuthering Heights,the main characters and places have been delicately designed and cautiously named,which have their special implications based on the characters’identity,status and personalities or the features of the places.Therefore,through analyzing the implied meanings of the characters and place names in this novel,this essay illustrates that the author pur posefully failed Heathcliff’s revenge.Meanwhile,the theme of this novel—Emily’s ultimate concern for the social inequality—is naturally exposed to the reader.     

Regional Identity and National Identity

Identity is the crucial characteristic to people, as it is the defining factors of what they are and what they are not. It concludes lots of things, and among which, the national identity and regional identity are the most important ones; though they are often confused in some occasions. Therefore, this essay discusses the question of the relationship of these two identities with the examples of two British films— Bloody Sunday and Kes. From the discussion, it concludes that though on some degree the region...     

On the Loss of Family Responsibility in The Yellow Wallpaper

Most researches on“The Yellow Wallpaper”are invariably linked with feminism. However, this essay puts feminism aside and turns to analyze“The Yellow Wallpaper”from the perspective of responsibility and freedom. It discusses that the heroine chooses to overlook her family responsibility gradually while she pursues her spiritual freedom, and indicates the significance of balancing the freedom and responsibility.     

On Reversibility and Reverse Culture Shock in Translation

In this essay, the author is setting up a Chinese perspective on the reversibility of the translated text and how to avoidreverse cultural shock in translation under the context of information age and globalization. This argument also concerns with thetopics of maintain of the ambiguity of the original text and select of the original text. The author also discussed some aspects thatpossibly or potentially affect the reversibility of the translated texts and cause the Reverse Culture Shock. Then the essay offerssome strategies in dealing with such problems in translation.     

A Critical Review of Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition

The researches on Critical Period Hypothesis(CPH) aims to explain the importance of the age factor in the process of learning a second language.In this essay,a critical review of the theoretical issues and empirical research on the CPH will spread out.Meanwhile,the discussion of implication and limitation of the CPH research will be concerned as well.     

Transfer of Native Language——A Minor Role in Second Language Acquisition

This essay deals with the long controversial issue of whether transfer of native language has a major or minor role in the second language acquisition.Based on a brief introduction of all the literature regarding the language transfer in SLA and investigated through a deeper look into the main theories on the role of native language,the essay points out that the role of transfer of NL is evidently far from being as definite or dominant as it is supposed to be.The essay asserts that language universals but not the NL facts were found to play the leading role in the transfer.It holds that Universal Grammars are functioning in determining where language transfer occurs,and thus comes to its conclusion that the role of transfer from NL is inferior to that of UG in SLA,which explains why among second language learners there has been a remarkable common experience that language learners in the early stages will produce in the target language linguistic forms which can be related neither to their mother tongue nor to the target language.     

An Insight Into WBI

Web plays a more and more important role in modern education. People are taking the advantages of this technology to different degrees according to their various purposes, resources and targets. Nevertheless, while on the one hand web promotes teaching, it also brings some inconveniences on the other hand. In this essay I've analyzed the advantages of web as well as its disadvantages in teaching, aiming at its further improvement and better application in teaching.     

Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination: Frankenstein,a Moral Stain on Earth

The lure of Alpine landscapes in Shelley’s Frankenstein has attracted an increasing number of ecocritics,such as wellknown Bill Phillips and Helena Feder into this growing field of study.Both Phillips and Feder highlight the significance of the natural environment in terms of understanding literary and cultural texts.They actively argue for an interconnected relationship between Shelley’s creation and the natural environment at that time.The project of this essay chiefly focuses on the similarities in the articles of these two academics from the perspective of ecocriticism and how they relate to each other.Following this,I will discuss the differences between the two articles concerning the consideration of environmental conditions of the novel’s produc tion.Finally,the viewpoints of the two articles and its attempt to reshape perceptions and attitudes towards the present environ mental crisis will be further explored and discussed in this essay.     

Critique of What Children Think of Animals' Need: Aesthetic and Psycho-social Conceptions

This essay aims to present the strengths and weaknesses of the research in detail. The research problem and the research background will be given. The essay will also comment on the methods employed in this research in respect to interview, sampling, data collection and its analysis. Its validity and reliability will be discussed and the appropriateness of results, weaknesses and ethical problems will be pointed out. At the end it will show the findings and implications of this critique and its further development.     

Teacher learning： Reflective practice as a site of engagement for professional identity construction

This paper reports a qualitative study in response to the growing research interest in teacher learning. Informed by a sociocultural perspective, teacher learning is considered as a process of identity construction in the paper. This paper taps into the development of teacher identity embedded in teacher learning and views reflection as a social practice for enhancing teacher learning. Through a close analysis of a selected discussion thread, this paper aims to demonstrate that teacher-learners＇ reflective practice in the online learning community provided a site of engagement for developing their professional identity and shaping the practice of teaching in their process of learning to teach.     

The Narrator’s Pangs in Pangs of Love : Uncertainty of Cultural Identity

Pangs of Love tells the experiences of Chinese American immigrants, and especially the pangs the narrator, as a second generation, feels in family, love and social affairs. Based on the analysis of the narrator’s pangs, this paper argues that it is mainly the uncertainty of cultural identity that leads to the pangs of the narrator, and of the second generation Chinese Americans. This paper shows that the second generation can take advantage of their dual but conflicting cultural heritages to develop a renewed and specific cultural identity.