Attitudes of non-specialist teachers of English to some current basic concepts in teaching English as a second language

A study of the attitudes of non-specialist primary school teachers to current principles of teaching English as a second language is reported here. The respondents were found to be favourable to the most obvious general principles, but to have reservations about the finer points of support and reinforcement.     

简化英语课堂教学：回归符号实跬——读《教育激扬生命》有感兼评一堂生本英语课

在生本教育理念的指引下,英语课堂教学应由以往注重语言符号研究回归符号实践。符号实践简化课堂教学——一方面,教学过程得到简化,学生拥有更多时间自主学习;另一方面,教学内容得到浓缩,学生拥有更广阔的思维空间。     

科技英语翻译中一些常用英语单词的辨析

作者根据自己的工作经历, 积累收集了一些常用的科技英语单词, 例举实例对它们的共同处及区别加以详细比较, 以期对英语爱好者提供一些学习经验, 起到抛砖引玉的作用。     

A study of the relationship between American sign language and English literacy

This article presents the findings of a study of the relationship between American Sign Language (ASL) skills and English literacy among 160 deaf children. Using a specially designed test of ASL to determine three levels of ASL ability, we found that deaf children who attained the higher two levels significantly outperformed children in the lowest ASL ability level in English literacy, regardless of age and IQ. Furthermore, although deaf children with deaf mothers outperformed deaf children of hearing mothers in both ASL and English literacy, when ASL level was held constant, there was no difference between these two groups, except in the lowest level of ASL ability. The implication of this research is straightforward and powerful: Deaf children's learning of English appears to benefit from the acquisition of even a moderate fluency in ASL.     

How some college students represent their understandings of the nature of scientific theories

This study explores college students' representations about the nature of theories during their enrollment in a large astronomy course with instruction designed to address a number of nature of science issues. We focus our investigation on how nine students represent their understanding of theory, how they distinguish between scientific theories and non‐scientific theories, and how they reason about specific theories. Students' notions of theory were classified under four main categories: (1) hypothesis, (2) idea with evidence, (3) explanation, and (4) explanation based on evidence. Students' condition for deciding whether a given idea is a scientific theory or not were classified under six criteria: content domain, convention, evidence, mathematical content, methodology, and tentativeness. Students expressed slight levels of variation between their reasoning about scientific theories in general and specific theories they learned in the course. Despite increased sophistication in some students' representations, this study affirms the complex dimensions involved in teaching and assessing student understanding about theories. The implications of this study underscore the need to explicitly address the nature of proof in science and issues of tentativeness and certainty students associate with scientific theories, and provide students with more opportunities to utilize the language of science.     

从VP嵌套理论看若干英语句法现象

:VP嵌套理论是生成句法最简方案对动词词组结构的新构想。本文试图以这一理论来解释英语中的若干句法现象 ,如 :双宾语结构 ,动词的作格现象 ,副词在句中的不同位置 ,以及 There-存在句型等     

本质不连通冠状系统的结构刻画

本质不连通冠状系统定义为含有固定键且至少有一个“洞”的克库勒冠状系统.对一个含有2个“洞”的本质不连通冠状系统G,删除其所有固定单键和双键的所有顶点后所得到的子图是不连通的,而且每个连通分支都是正规分支,或者是正规的苯系统,或者是正规的双冠状系统,或者是正规的广义双冠状系统,或者是正规的单冠状系统。     

A clause-relational approach to English texts: A study of some predictive lexical items in written discourse

This paper re-examines the linguistic basis for the distinction between two kinds of word: open-system words and closed-system words. Specifically, it looks at a class of traditionally open-system words — lexical items like nouns, verbs and adjectives — and suggests that they can function as exponents of a clause relation, and as such can have a predictive effect on the organisation of written discourse. This class of words is contrasted with two other, established, means of text organisation, the subordinators and the sentence connectors. Four criteria are presented to support the delimitation of this class. Finally, the implications of this class of words are considered for a linguistic theory of reference.     

当代英语词汇发展趋势研究

英语从古到今一直都在变化着,特别是在词汇方面。文章从若干方面探讨了英语语言的发展历史、发展途径及词汇发展的原因,探讨了英语词汇的变化趋势,以期对从事语言研究人员有一定的启示。     

惯用语初探

惯用语作为与成语、谚语、歇后语平行的语言单位，在现代汉语语史上的研究还处于初步阶段。虽然80年代，专家和学对惯用语的研究越来越多，但远未达到系统化、理论化的阶段。章试图从意义、来源、构成形式、结构关系和语体风格等几个方面对惯用语和成语进行比较，把惯用语从成语中区分开来。通过比较，进一步发现惯用语自身的个性特点，如惯用语的感情色彩、特殊来源、发展变化、及其特殊的修辞功能等。从而使我们对惯用语有一个整体的把握。     

新疆商务英语本科大学新生英语语音能力现状研究

在英语专业学生学习过程中,语音学习至关重要。英语语音教学必须在大学新生入学阶段得到重视。与传统英语语音教学相比,新疆地区商务英语本科大学新生的英语语音能力还受到生源复杂等因素的影响,针对这一特点,英语语音课程教学更要突出以下几点:1.语音教学系统化;2.隐形分层教学,突出学生主体性。语音教学系统化;3.大量朗读练习与网络真实语音材料相结合;4.培养学生语音感知能力和辩音能力。     

积业学校英语学习困难的研究历史及其概念界定

学习困难是自学习存在以来就有的问题,古今中外很多学者、专家对这一问题进行了研究,并取得了一定的成果。本文试将学习困难的研究历史和概念界定进行梳理,希望能对学习困难研究工作提供借鉴和参考。     

尿素与还原糖的鉴别反应

本实验利用缩二脲与铜离子生成的紫红色配合物 ,在加热条件下与还原糖反应 ,紫红色褪去 ,生成无色配离子———缩二脲亚铜配离子 (条件适宜 ,还可产生白色沉淀———缩二脲亚铜 ) ,以此来鉴别还原糖与非还原糖 ,效果很好。     

几种特殊否定句式的翻译手法

对教学中一些常见的含有否定词语的特殊句子结构的翻译进行了分析和归纳,指出对此类句子的汉译采用向目的语读者靠拢的归化法为佳。     

The acquisition of spatial constructions in American sign language and English

Spatial relations in American Sign Language (ASL) are often signed from the perspective of the signer and so involve a shift in perspective and mental rotation. This study examined developing knowledge of language used to refer to the spatial relations front, behind, left, right, towards, away, above, and below by children learning ASL and English. Because ASL is a classifier language in which noun referents are placed into groups, each spatial relation also appeared with person, animal, and vehicle classifiers. Twenty-three children and adults who learned ASL before the age of 5 years and 23 native English-speaking adults and children participated. Both language groups participated in a comprehension task in which they chose which of 2 pictures depicted a signed or spoken relation. Results showed that children learning ASL acquired the constructions for spatial relations that typically involve perspective shifts and mental rotation later than constructions that do not involve these abilities and later than English-speaking children. Children learning ASL did not differ from English-speaking children in learning constructions that did not involve these abilities. Results also suggest that users of ASL initially comprehend spatial relations more accurately with person and animal classifiers than with the classifier for vehicles. The results are relevant to understanding the acquisition of spatial relations in ASL.     

当前我国部分大学生政治参与冷漠现象探析

通过调查分析当前我国部分大学生政治参与冷漠的现状,从社会视角、教育影响以及大学生自身素质等方面探讨部分大学生政治参与冷漠现象的深层次原因,并从多角度提出了克服部分大学生政治参与冷漠现象的对策,认为社会各界应从防微杜渐的认识高度对部分大学生政治参与冷漠现象予以重视.     

高职高专英语写作教学现状调查与分析

通过对河南省5所高职院校写作教学现状的实证调查,了解高职高专英语写作教学中存在的诸如课程设置、教材使用、教师角色等方面的问题,提出提高高职高专学生英语写作能力的新思路和新方法。     

高职英语教学中开发学生多元智能的现状调查

多元智能理论对英语教学的理论提供了一个新的教学理念,以开发智能教学英语作为一种工具来促进学生健康的人格和运用语言的综合能力的整体素质的全面发展。本研究对高职英语教学中学生多元智能的开发现状进行调查,不仅可以为目前高职英语的教学提供一定的借鉴,抛砖引玉,而且还能智能;现状调查     

Two approaches to the handling of child abuse: A comparison of the English and Dutch systems

The legal and administrative systems for handling child abuse cases in England and The Netherlands are briefly described and it is argued that the two systems illustrate respectively the “legal” and “medical” models. The implications for this in practice are contrasted. In England the stress is on careful adherence to criteria for abuse, on procedures for placing children's names on child abuse registers, and removing them if they are no longer at risk, while in The Netherlands the stress is on family need with the abusive incident being regarded as no more than a signal that help is needed. This allows a much wider definition of abuse. In England sexual and emotional abuse are still relatively rarely used as grounds for intervention whereas in the Netherlands concepts such as “cognitive abuse” and “sexual neglect” are gaining currency. Other implications of the models such as differences in attitudes to confidentiality and public attitudes to authority and to seeking help are considered, as are the consequences for incidence figures. The handling of two cases with very similar circumstances are compared. Finally, it is argued that while each system might present the other with new ideas, the systems have to be seen in the social context of the two countries and neither system is likely to appear superior to professionals in the other country.