Negotiating the World: Some philosophical considerations on dealing with differential academic language proficiency in schools

Differential academic language proficiency is an issue of major educational concern, bearing on problems varying from pupil performance, to social prospects, and citizenship. In this paper we develop a conception of the language-acquiring subject, and we discuss the consequences for understanding differential language proficiency in schools. Starting from Wittgenstein's meaning-as-use theory we show that learning a language requires an activity that relates the subject both to the community of language users, and to the things language is about. In opposition to Luntley, we contend that this does not mean that linguistic development involves linguistic adjustment to the world 'as it is'. It is argued that, in as far as linguistic development involves a process of adjustment, this concerns conceptions about the world as it is presupposed to be—a 'world' that is subjected to doubt and revision time and again. With respect to dealing with differential academic language proficiency, this approach to linguistic development suggests bringing pupils into situations which require active participation in processes of 'negotiating meaning', including negotiating the prevailing presuppositions about what the world is like. This also puts novices in a different position—less assimilatory—recognising their co-constructive potencies at a more fundamental level.     

会计英语的语言特点及其汉译策略

总结并提出会计英语四个主要的语言特点,即客观性、中立性、简洁性和专业性,并从科学翻译的角度探讨会计英语汉译技巧,认为会计英语汉译宜采用全译策略,即增减、转换和分合,以保留会计信息的完整性。     

A New Approach to Social Problems

Assuming that learning is an inherently social process, this research explores interpersonal variables that affect teaching. Specifically, does the interpersonal teaching style affect student impressions of the instructor? Eighty-five undergraduates viewed one of three ten-minute videos that portrayed either an authoritarian, authoritative, or neutral style. While the content remained constant, the videos differed in many ways. Students rated the authoritative style as most positive and the authoritarian as least positive. These results are consistent with socio-instructional theories of learning and imply that style is as important as substance in teaching.     

“间接关系组合”试说

存在于语言组合内部的结构关系,有直接与间接之分。内部存在间接关系的组合为间接关系组合。间接关系组合可以分为单一关系组合与复合关系组合两类。如果只能按照一种直接关系去理解。这种间接关系组合为单一关系组合。如果可以按照两种或者更多种直接关系去理解。这种间接关系组合为复合关系组合。间接关系组合可以为表达带来特殊色彩。     

学习者自主认知观及其对现代英语教学的启示

本文从认知心理学角度,阐述了英语学习者自主的概念,并揭示了学习者自主的实质、内在机制及获得途径。学习者自主是应用语言学研究领域的一个重要课题,对现代英语教学改革有着重要的推动作用,对语言教学活动也将带来积极的启示。     

论全球多元语境下中国大众文化的人文困顿及演绎趋向

中国当代大众文化消解荡涤了精英文化的领地而极大地拓展了文化表达的艺术空间。即大众文化的开放性、宽容性、普适性创设了一种共享文化苑囿,营造了普通大众话语的自说方式和平等的交际氛围。引领着文化范畴的平民化、普及化和民主化,激发了大众群体强烈的参与愿望、期待视野和体验情愫,导致了人的生存价值与生命意义的自觉生成并为人类性灵的充分张扬提供了现代化的技术手段和物质媒介,从而真正彰显着意味隽永的人文情韵。     

语言系统论的形成及流变

19世纪洪堡特在有机系统观基础上,对语言系统做了深入研究,但是没有形成完整的理论体系。半个多世纪以后,索绪尔建立了语言系统论,他建构的语言系统是静态的、封闭的,结构关系被描写为线性的,还带有明显的机械系统观痕迹。之后,语言系统理论随着西方科学不断发展,一般系统论的诞生使语言系统论日趋完善,语言系统被看作开放的、动态的,语言研究重心也从形式转移到语义。     

乔姆斯基的语言观及其唯理主义认识论基础

追溯乔姆斯基语言观的唯理主义认识论渊源,剖析其语言天生论与笛卡儿等人的天赋观的异同,指出两者的根本区别在于:前者是建立在生物遗传学基础之上的一元论,后者则是建立在"上帝"基础之上的心物分离的二元论;其中既有继承和发展,也有批判和扬弃.使我们对乔姆斯基的语言观有更深刻的理解.     

On Linguistic Features of News English

This essay mainly studies the linguistic features of News English on stylistics.The study is made mainly on three aspects of News English.They are lexical features.sentence features and grammar features of News English.Through the study we find that News English,as a distinctive and new language.has its own lin-guistic features in words, sentences and grammar.     

Analytic Reading of The Color Purple the Death and Rebirth of Dreams

The Color Purple for the first time not only reveals the racial and sexual discrimination but also tells those oppressed black women the way to solve it. The paper is trying to analyze the work from the heroines (their main experiences and connections with each other), the linguistic arts and the motifs, etc.