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This study reports on an investigation into the impact of strategy-based English language instruction (SBELI) on the language proficiency of gifted learners. The participants were students who were identified as gifted and thus received additional out-of-school training for a few days a week in Adana Science and Arts Centre. Their ages ranged from 10 to 13. One experimental group (n = 17) and one control group (n = 17) were designed to explore the possible English performance differences between the learners who were exposed to SBELI, which included 11 language-learning strategies for eight weeks, and those who were not. Data were collected through proficiency exams, written accounts of participants in the experimental group, think-aloud protocols and an open-ended questionnaire. The findings obtained revealed that SBELI produced a positive impact on the language proficiency of the gifted students and enabled them to enhance their already established attitude to make their language learning quick, easy, effective and enjoyable.     

语用预设视角下的商务英语写作研究

从语用预设的视角入手，辅以大量英语资料，对商务英语写作的礼貌性、简洁性、语篇连贯性、信息凸显性四个方面进行探讨；指出语用预设在语言维度上可使商务英语写作更加简洁和礼貌，在语篇维度上可使商务英语写作更加连贯，信息维度上可使商务英语写作的语篇或语言信息量更大。     

以能力为本位提高高职英语教师素质研究

高职英语教育的人才培养过程中教师的角色举足轻重,教师的素质是影响教学质量的关键因素。本文从能力为本位的教育理念,提出发展英语教师＂双师型＂素质,全面提高英语教师素质。     

论大学英语听力教学过程与教学方法

大学英语教学过程包含了三个主要步骤:听前、听时和听后。每个不同的步骤有着不同的特点,采用以语法测试、听说练习、综合跟读等方法与之相适应。     

The Status of Literature: English teaching and the condition of literature teaching in schools

Although the curriculum subject of English is continually reviewed and revised in all English speaking countries, the status of literature is rarely questioned: i.e. that it is of high cultural value and all students should be taught about it. The concerns of any review, in any country, are typically about what counts as literature, especially in terms of national heritage, and then how much of the curriculum it should occupy. This paper reports on three inter‐related pieces of research that examine the views of in‐service and pre‐service English teachers about their experiences of teaching literature and their perceptions of its ‘status’ and significance, both at official level and in the classroom; it draws attention to how England compares with some other English‐speaking countries and to the need to learn from the negative outcomes of political policy in England. The findings suggest that the nature of engagement with literature for teachers and their students has been distorted by official rhetorics and assessment regimes and that English teachers are deeply concerned to reverse this pattern.     

走出高中英语教学的误区

通过对高中英语教学在指导思想、教学理念、教材处理等几方面存在误区的分析,倡导英语教师认真学习新课程理念、领悟新课标精神、研究教材和学生学习状况,使英语教学走入正轨。     

Errors in Junior English Writing:Resources and Strategies

The research on the common errors in junior English writings reflects the categories of errors, resources of errors, and how to do with errors in effective ways. Errors are divided into two types:intra...     

以释义为手段促进高级英语教学

在《高级英语》教学过程中,非常重要的一个环节就是对于课文的释义(paraphrasing),也是每一课的重点及难点。释义的环节直接影响到学生对于段落及篇章的理解程度,也会不同程度地提高学生语言表达能力和写作能力。有效地使用这一教学方法,对于提高学生的理解力和语言应用能力有较大的促进作用。     

It Ain’t What You Say...

This essay takes as its starting-point the recent announcement that GCSE English, the high-stakes test taken by 16-year-olds in England, will no longer include the assessment of speaking and listening. It attempts to place this decision, and other recent policy interventions that will have an impact on how talk in the classroom is conceptualised and valued, in a longer history of schooling, attitudes to spoken English and the notion of a spoken standard. The essay then explores, through an account of an observed GCSE English lesson, something of the complexities involved in taking talk, and the assessment of talk, seriously.     

从二语习得的角度浅析可理解性输入对非英语专业大学生英语写作的影响

本文以二语习得与可理解性输入理论为基础,尝试着了解并分析当前大学英语写作教学输入模式及其存在的不足之处,从而在教学过程中试图通过增强可理解性输入来促进学生对输入材料的理解与吸收,最后使其有效地运用于写作之中。