An Analysis of the CET English Writing Tests from the Perspective of Language Testing

This article is mainly talked about CET English writing tests from the perspective of language testing.Writing tests designed to test the language proficiency,have direct and integrative characteristics.Writing requires the candidates to use language accurately,fluently and appropriately.     

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.     

On the College English Learning Strategies and Their Usages

English language learning strategy is an important part in the process of learning,and the selection and use of it has a direct impact on the effect of English learning.Now there are some problems in the use of college English learning strategy,which have many factors,such as:learning environment,learning concepts,learning motivation and so on.Therefore,some corresponding strategies must been taken so as to improve the quality of teachers’teaching and the efficiency of students’learning.     

The Relationships among Language Self-Efficacy,Listening Strategy and Academic Achievements:A Case of Chinese Qinghai-Tibet Plateau EFL learners

The present study was carried out to analyze the effect of language self-efficacy and listening strategy on academic achievements in Chinese Qinghai-Tibet Plateau EFL learners.To achieve this goal,eighty-seven university students participated in the study and filled in language self-efficacy and listening strategy questionnaire.The result revealed that learners’language self-efficacy,listening strategy are positively correlated with academic achievements.Comparing the two factors influencing language learning,self-efficacy has higher prediction than listening strategies to academic achievements.Inner correlation exists in language self-efficacy and listening strategies.No gender exists.The study shed more light on the influence of self-efficacy and listening strategy on students’performance.     

基于COCA语料库的英语近义词辨析：以small和little为例

该文基于美国当代英语语料库对small和little这一对近义词进行辨析,发现两者在语域分布、搭配和语义韵上存在差别。这样的区分方法,相对于传统的教学方法更能准确地区分近义词,因而语料库作为有效的工具应该引入到外语教学和学习。同时,语料库能够对词典的编纂提出合理有效的建议。     

An Analysis of Cultural Obstacles on English Learning

Language and culture can not be separated. It is impossible to learn language well if people do not master cultural background. With the frequent communication between China and other nations throughout the world, cross-cultural communicative competence is put forward to be the ultimate goal of foreign language learning in China. However, in present situation, cultural factor has not gained its due place in students’ English learning. Based on this circumstance, this paper analyzes the cultural obstacles on English learning from the aspects of listening, reading and communicating, and puts forward that while instructing English language, teachers of English should pay attention to and spread cultural background knowledge of English speaking nations to improve students’ language comprehension ability and cross-cultural communicative competence.     

Cultural Differences Reflected by Language-The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan as a case

This short essay tries to illustrate that language is the primary obstacle to cross-cultural communication, not just be-cause of the difference of words and expressions, but the cultural factors includ...     

An Analysis on the Differentiation between Diglossia and Bilingualism

Despite a hot and sensitive topic in China,the practice and education of bilingualism has been misunderstood in some areas because people have little sense of it.This paper is to differentiate the diglossia and the bilingualism to make it clear that it is important and necessary to put into practice the bilingualism and bilingual education in parts of China.     

Student Evaluations as Effective Indicators of Learning Outcomes：Evi-dence from Japanese University Students in English Language Courses

The term“student learning outcomes”refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilitiesthat students achieve during a course, and is typically assessed based on student evaluations conducted at the end of th...     

The Language Features of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

As a unique feature of literature, poem brings readers music beauty, image beauty, visual beauty as well as symbolic beauty. Robert Frost is an American contemporary poet who is good at stylistic feature of poems, especially in macroscopic organization, rhetorical methods, grammatical metaphor, vocabulary, rhythmic feature, and semantic relations. Generally, sound is related to phonetics and phonology. Patterns of sound can create melodious effect in poetry, and sometimes a single vowel or consonant will make the verse or even the particular poem significant. Sometimes musical or incantatory effects are achieved through devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance and rhythm. A stylistic analysis of Robert Frost’s famous poem"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"is given, which mainly focused on its language features. Through the excellent choice of words and organization of sound, Frost makes the simplest pieces into meaningful poems with beautiful melody and brings readers refreshing sense, flatus of life, tranquility and geniality.