深化大学英语教学改革 提高大学英语教学质量

我校于2004年启动了基于网络与多媒体的大学英语教学改革工程,该改革以培养学生的自主学习能力为中心,通过制定个性化的大学英语教学大纲,以分级教学的形式,构建了课堂教学与学生网络自主学习相结合的个性化教学模式,促进了学生英语综合应用能力的全面提高。     

二语语用习得研究综述

自20世纪80年代以来,二语习得中的语用问题得到越来越多的关注,产生了二语习得研究中的一个新分支——语际语用学,这一新领域的理论研究借用了跨文化语用学、社会语言学等多学科的理论和方法对二语学习者的语用现象进行分析和研究,随着研究的深入,研究者渐渐将研究方向转向了二语语用能力培养的问题。     

科普英语评价理论分析

本文以评价理论为理论基础,从科普英语的语言、语境和作者—读者关系所体现的人际情感意义出发,使用Systemic Coder统计工具分析百篇英语科普短文,说明科普英语也大量使用评价资源,几乎用到了评价理论全部的评价资源范畴,情态、鉴赏和语势资源也同样频繁使用,直接证明了科普英语表达人际情感和态度意义,体现作者与读者的协商和对话。     

法律英语中古体副词的构成、含义及翻译

法律英语是一种英语方变体。属于专门用途英语之一,具有自身独有的特点。法律英语中的there-under等古体词具有以下特点：一是这些古体词是由here、there、where加常用介词构成的复合词。二是here-主要指代“本”文件、文书、合同、协定等。即法律文件本身,there-虽然有时也可表示“本”文件（在这个意义上,here-与there-的区别主要体现在话语者的心理距离上）,但通常多指代前面提到的单词和词组,where-常指代前面所说的整个句子或词组等。三是此类词语语义重点在here-、there-、where-复合词的第二部分,因为这部分都是常用介词.词义比较明确、具体。四是here-、there-类复合词一般为副词;而where-类复合词既可作副词,也可作从属连词.偶尔亦可作名词。     

博士生英语学习动机、策略及水平相关研究

研究考察了博士生英语学习动机情况,发现他们的工具性动机水平显著高于其他类型的动机,学习者的英语学习动机与性别、年龄等个人特征没有显著关联,反映出博士生英语学习动机的趋同性。英语学习动机水平高的学生会更多地运用各种学习策略,但是成绩动机和学习情境动机与大部分学习策略没有显著相关。学生的内在兴趣与英语水平显著正相关,而成绩动机与英语水平显著负相关。文章还对研究结果在教学上的意义进行了讨论。     

大学英语机助口试对英语学习的反拨作用──以昆明理工大学机助口试为研究对象

语言测试反拔作用研究是针对考试使用及其影响的研究。本文就昆明理工大学目前实施的大学英语机助口试进行反拔作用调查研究。发现大学英语机助口语对学习者英语学习态度、内容、以及评估方面产生了反拔作用,但作用不明显,笔者探讨了只产生弱反拔作用的原因,并对如何促进大学英语机助口试积极反拔作用提出了建议。     

母语负迁移与写作的中式英语

外语学习中的母语知识负迁移作用一直是困扰着学习者和语言研究者的主要研究对象之一。我国成人英语写作中的中式英语大都源于母语的负迁移作用 ,本文拟从我国成人英语学习者所犯的中式英语错误在词汇、句法、修辞、语篇等四个层面的分析 ,通过比照汉语和英语的不同语言特性 ,提出中式英语的不同表现形式和一些解决问题的办法     

A reciprocal,moderated mediation model of grit,engagement, and literacy achievement among dual language learners

This short‐term longitudinal study asked (a) how and for whom socioemotional factors like grit and emotional engagement predict later literacy achievement; and (b) if there are reciprocal effects between literacy and these socioemotional factors. An autoregressive cross‐lagged (ARCR) design included 3 time points over 4 months with an ethnic minority, dual language learner sample (n = 142; 54% female; 75% Latina/o; M = 9.47 years old). The procedure at each time point included teacher‐reported student emotional engagement and adapted grit questionnaires in addition to a student literacy achievement performance task. A reciprocal model (i.e., socioemotional factors and literacy affect each other) was compared to direct (i.e., socioemotional factors impact literacy) and reverse (i.e., literacy impacts socioemotional factors) models. Results suggested that the reciprocal model fit better than the direct and reverse models. Within the reciprocal ARCR model, grit had a significant impact on later literacy achievement via the mediator of engagement and moderated by age. Findings hold implications for education discourse on reciprocal and indirect effects of grit on achievement among older elementary‐aged dual language learners.     

‘I study long,long time in my language,so I never forget it’: reading and first language maintenance

This article will examine first-language (L1) maintenance among adult learners attending English classes at a tertiary institution in New Zealand. The sample consisted of refugee background students enrolled in a Training Opportunities Program aimed at developing literacy and numeracy skills as well as preparation for civic involvement. The data emanated from a qualitative study which not only yielded information on students’ reading habits in English but also in other languages, including their L1. Findings from the current study address L1 fluency in L2 settings, particularly as related to the availability of L1 reading material, home environment, and digital media.     

JUMPING ON SHADOWS: CATCHING THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE CLASSROOM

This article discusses case material from a psychoanalytically informed ethnographic research project where the author had a dual role as a teaching practitioner and researcher in an infant school. It suggests that practitioner researchers can deepen a concern with reflexivity in the research process by transferring elements of the practice of the psychoanalytic clinician — specifically, attention to ‘counter‐transference’ — to their research practice. The article reviews the concept of counter‐transference. It suggests that working out the difference between transference and counter‐transference may be connected unconsciously to working out the distinctions between ego and superego. The article then goes on to provide an illustration of the way in which the author attempted to use her own counter‐transference to inform her research into young children's learning, specifically in relation to her experience of being a teacher. The discussion connects this to the teacher's transferential place as a parental and ‘superego’ figure for pupils. Observational extracts are drawn from the case study of ‘Lutfa’, a Bengali girl placed at the lower end of the ability group range. The article concludes by suggesting that attention to counter‐transference dynamics as a form of reflexivity can provide the practitioner‐researcher with valuable information about the research subjects and about dynamics in the setting, particularly the participants' relationships to ‘superego’ figures.