译者主体性与唐诗英译——李商隐诗作英译的个案分析

唐诗作为中国古典诗歌中的精品,千百年来广为传诵,经久不衰,晚唐诗人李商隐的诗作就是其中的杰出代表。通过国内外诸多名家的翻译,唐诗在英语文化圈中得到了日益广泛的传播;然而,唐诗的译介仍然面临挑战,这源于诗歌翻译是选择的艺术,而选择的过程不可避免受到译者主体性的影响。形式转换、意义传递或文化移植都需要充分发挥译者主体性。在对译者主体性进行理论诠释的基础上,可以结合哲学阐释学的视角,从"诗歌意义中未定点的存在与阐释"和"译者主体性为唐诗多译本现象的内在理据"两个方面探究李商隐诗作英译的多元阐释现象。多义性作为李商隐诗作的内在本质,是中国古诗的主要特点之一,也是促使译者发挥主体性、对源语文本意义进行多元阐释的主要原因。     

运用图式理论提高英语听力教学

对于英语学习者来说,听是获取信息的重要手段,是掌握和运用语言不可或缺的重要环节。然而在目前的英语教学中,听力又是一个很薄弱的环节。基于对这一现象的思考,本文试图探讨如何运用图式理论来提高英语听力教学,并拟从图式理论、听力过程中信息处理方式、图式理论在英语听力教学中的作用等几方面来分析和探讨如何运用图式理论提高英语听力教学。     

国内外大规模英语考试改革趋势研究

针对当前国内外大规模英语考试的改革,本文就其考试内容、题型以及考试方式等方面的变化进行了详细地阐述。同时,通过对这些考试改革的比较,总结了目前国内外语言测试改革的趋势。并且分析了考试改革对于我国大学英语教学改革的影响与作用。     

英语专业基础阶段听力课教学中的困难因素与对策

本文根据第二语言习得理论并结合教学实践 ,着重探讨英语专业基础阶段听力课教学中的困难因素和提高听力课教学质量的主要基本技能。     

应重视开发英语教学中的非智力因素

重视开发学生的非智力因素,是英语教学中一个不可忽视的问题．人的非智力因素主要包括情感、意志和注意力等三个方面的因素,它们对学生能否学好英语起着重要的作用．     

The white native speaker and inequality regimes in the private English language school

Private English language schools market the language as a tool that helps one connect with others from different cultures. Despite their promotion of English aiding in intercultural communication, these institutions may believe that only the white native speaker is the ideal teacher of the language. This valuing of the white native speaker can consequently act as an organisational inequality regime that marginalises nonwhite teachers. Using qualitative interviews with 10 nonwhite instructors working in schools in Toronto, Canada, this article investigates the ways in which these teachers experience the inequality regime of the white native speaker at work. The findings indicate that the teachers experience this inequality regime as a series of microaggressions that involve space, competence and customer desire. The article concludes with suggestions to dismantle inequality regimes in private institutions.     

On the conditions of authority in academic publics

The discourse of some of the most powerful public figures in today’s world is often incoherent and nonsensical. Incoherent yet authoritative discourse shows that authority does not rest in language but results from non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions. The non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions are exemplified in an Australian case‐study of a media debate between the Immigration Minister and a refugee, drawing on research by Smith‐Khan (2019a, 2019b). Two such conditions are then examined with reference to academic publics. First, I ask which languages do or do not carry authority, before moving on to speaker identity as a condition of authority. The close association between English and academic excellence has resulted in diminishing the authority of academic publications in languages other than English. The same is true of publications by women and people of colour. I close by reflecting on referencing practices as forms of extending authoritativeness to voices in excluded languages and from excluded scholars in academic publics.     

English proficiency in Australia, 1981 to 2016

Using Australian census data, the paper examines the incidence of poor English competency in Australia from 1981 onwards. The paper examines English competency in relation to various characteristics such as sex, age, language spoken, visa type, citizenship, duration of residence and location. It finds that there was a sharp rise in the numbers of people not speaking English well between the 2011 and 2016 Censuses and special attention is given to this rise in the paper. Recently, the Australian Government unsuccessfully legislated for the introduction of a requirement of English competency at the level of IELTS 6 (the commonly used university entrance level) as a condition for the award of Australian citizenship. The paper argues that this test would have led to a very large number of disenfranchised Australian permanent residents and this would be a highly undesirable result. Nevertheless, employment and social participation are strongly influenced by English competency and residents with poor English are disadvantaged. The policy suggestion is made that participation in a course of English language training for those without functional English skills could be made a precondition of the award of permanent residence—without the application of a passing grade.     

English and discourses of commodification among tourism workers in the Himalayas

In this article, I investigate commodification discourses and ideologies of English from the perspective of Nepali tourism workers. Drawing data from interviews with porters and trekking guides in Nepal, I argue that English is not seen as merely a transactional means to convey meaning; it works in combination with the traditional form of labor and care in the local economy, establishing itself as a powerful tool to establish closer interpersonal relationships, enhance such interpersonal relationships for economic gains and commodify local identities and cultures in the tourism market. The interview and ethnographic details show that language learners are agentive and capable of making sense of their actions by positioning themselves variously in terms of ethnicity, economic class and job category. These workers think that tourists' linguistic and financial resources are the empowering tools that enable them to travel to locations that they want. They also want to empower themselves with English skills and translocal imaginaries to travel and see the world beyond their immediate reach. Repertoires in English are considered as instruments to mediate their imaginaries and the foreign worlds they want to be part of.     

Legitimating the Philippines as a language learning space: Transnational Korean youth's experiences and evaluations

This paper examines how a peripheral English‐speaking country is constructed as a legitimate language learning space in the global English language teaching (ELT) industry by investigating South Koreans’ recent engagement in Philippine English education. It focuses on a short‐term English study abroad program, in which the Philippines serves as a transit place prior to students’ moving to a Western English‐speaking country. Drawing data from ethnographic research on South Korean youth studying English abroad, the article analyzes why Korean students seek Philippine English education in spite of their apparent pursuit of authentic English, and how they evaluate their learning experience in the Philippines. This paper finds that the Philippines holds a niche market in the global ELT industry by separating a space for English learning from other public and everyday spaces of English use and offering pedagogically intensive but emotionally supportive environments to English learners.