Experiences of a Foreign Teaching Couple

THE Chinese government has made serious efforts in recent years to upgrade the standard of English language learning (a core subject) in its high schools. One measure has been to invite native speakers to China to teach oral English. Here is the story -along with a few thoughts and reflections- of a married teaching couple partway through a 12-month teaching contract in western Hunan Province.     

Memoirs of an English Teacher

The most common job amongst expats in Beijing,by far,is teaching English.Whether it is a full-time occupation or a way to earn some extra cash alongside studies or other work,many members of the expat community have experience working as teachers. A seemingly insatiable demand for English speakers to teach adults as well as children to speak the lingua franca of the international business world has produced an array of language centers and schools of highly varying degrees of reliability.All Chinese people learn basic English in school,yet the general level of oral English remains poor and is often restricted to a handful of words (though the younger generations are getting much better).English classes once put heavy emphasis on the written form,but over the past decade more attention has been paid to speaking skills as China's youth look for opportunities to study and work abroad.     

Teaching Graduate Non-English Majors

Foreigners teaching English in China routinely find themselves in odd situations. One of the oddest, at least for the newcomer, is" being thrust into a room packed ceiling-to-floor with every major under the sun, except English, and being expected to make said group conversant in the missing language.     

学生对大学英语课堂语码转换的期望调查研究(英文)

Code-switching in the English as a foreign language(EFL) classroom is a disputable subject in the academic area. There are two main schools of thought toward English-Chinese code-switching. One holds an opinion that the code switching as a barrier for the first language may produce interference and negative transfer, while another argues code-switching as a facilitator for the first language may provide the most effective meanings of learning. The focus of the argument is to use or not use the mother tongue. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate whether it is necessary to use code-switching in the college English class from the perspective of English learners. By doing so, a questionnaire has been made to reveal the expectations of students with different English proficiency toward code-switching. And then the paper has provided suggestions on the way of using appropriate code-switching strategies in class to facilitate EFL learning.     

On Chinese Media

正Southern Metropolis Weekly Issue No.27,published on July 28,2014Love It or Hate It,English Language Is Inescapable The popularity of English language learning has opened a new window for the Chinese,and advanced their integration with peoples of the world.The ability to speak and read English has changed many Chinese people’s fate.Meanwhile,English has become a staple on Chinese school curricula and is a main feature of the job market.Love it or hate it,therefore,English language learning in China is inescapable.     

The impact of English learning in China

T he English language has evolved from being a mon- grel of different tongues spoken on a small island in northern Europe to the most widely spoken languagein the world. In today's global society, it has become theinternational language of business, the idiom through whichmany diplomats and politicians establish relations or go towar, and it is perhaps the main language used by ordinarypeople from different countries to communicate with eachother on the Internet. Universities, colleges and pr…     

A Word to the World

English is undoubtedly the global language, but as China rises ever higher on the world stage, Mandarin is beginning to look like a potential challenger to that title. Satus—it means "the beginning" in Latin, but how many people would know that?     

Investment Opportunities & Job Information

Teaching Vacancies There are two-month temp French and Arabic teaching positions for native speakers of the languages from mid-September to November in Hubei Province. A group of students hope to master these foreign languages before departing to French and Arabic speaking countries for jobs. The classes will focus on oral language and listening after some basic teaching about tetters, spelling, and pronunciation. Salary offered is 7,000 yuan per month for 20 teaching periods a week. The employer also provides roundtrip airfare, free     

文化与英语教学(英文)

This paper mainly studies the language teaching in classroom from the perspective of culture in sociolinguistics.Furthermore,this paper exclaims the importance of knowing various cultural habits of the target language-English and understanding several essential culture backgrounds for an English teacher in order to perfectly teach their students.Moreover,four main elements of culture,which are helpful in language teaching,are discussed in this paper.The four aspects are speech community,cultural background,cross-culture communication,and communicative competence about culture.     

“The Little UN”Where the Official Language Is Chinese

Celebrated as the "Little UN," in 40 years the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) has trained some 60,000 international students from 167 countries. As the only international university in China teaching Chinese language and culture to foreign students, it has more foreign students than Chinese. Korean students have formed a Korean community in a district near the university, where they rent apartments and stage their own activities. There is a special Ten-thousand-country Wall inside the campus, on which are engraved the names of foreign students' countries. Even though the university is flooded with different peoples, languages and cultures, all speak Chinese as well as the natives. In the Little UN, Chinese is the official language.     

言语交际中的性别文化观

社会中的任何人都离不开言语交际,并通过言语交际来传输信息、传播价值观。鉴于主流社会是语言的主导力量的,社会中使用的语言大多是主流社会认可、认同的语言,社会中盛行的价值观往往是主流社会主张、确认的价值观。本文通过对男性话语权利在言语交际中三方面的分析来揭示言语交际背后所隐藏的文化价值观,以凸现语言是如何影响人们的性别观念及如何制约人们在性别问题上的思考方式。     

高校英语教学中的生态理念

当前英语作为使用最广泛的国际通用语已“渗透”到我国社会的各个层面。在愈演愈烈的英语热中，如何保持清醒头脑，在学习英语和借鉴西方文化精华的同时，维护本民族语言文化的独立性和纯洁性，并关注世界语言的生态平衡，是高校外语教学中的一个重要课题。     

关于网络语言的特点及其规范问题

随着中国网民数量的不断骤增，网络语言异军突起，风靡全国，并不断向日常生活语言渗透。这引起了社会各界的广泛关注和巨大争议。本文拟从网络语言及其构词特点入手，对如何正确看待并规范使用网络语言问题进行了比较深入地探讨。     

21世纪写作学发展的思考

21世纪写作学发展的思考 ,首先是学科定位的思考 ,即在注重以往文本的社会学认识基础上充分注重写作与语言及表述的关系 ,以发展写作学科 ;其次注意对写作“体”的区分 ,不同“体”的写作 ,对语言、思维都有不同的要求。因而根据“体”的不同而使用不同的语言表述 ,即宽式语言方式、严式语言方式。而写作与社会关系之维面 ,一方面体现写作与写作者的目的性、自觉性相关联 ;另一方面强调写作者满足服务社会某一方面需要所使用的规范的表述语言。     

对外汉语教学中文学作品的阅读的教学思考

本文从文学创作的特点给以语言教学为宗旨的文学课带来的阅读障碍问题;文 化冲突问题;语言得体表达问题入手,分析了其问题出现的原因及解决的相应手段。     

Task-Based Approach in Language Teaching

During recent years,some notions about tasks have been considered as the major part of analysis in different teaching approaches and teachers are being more interested in the use of taskbased approach both in foreign and in second language teaching.The main goal of this article is to introduce and discuss some major principles of task-based language teaching and indicates how teachers can apply them in their curriculum.     

事实与价值难以二分的原因探究

休谟认为从对事实的描述"是"中是无法推演出规范性陈述"应该"的。休谟问题在西方哲学界引起了广泛的争论,但终究未能破解。社会科学研究的社会性事实毕竟不同于自然事实,它是由社会所规定。在社会性事实中语言、观察者的意向性本身就已成为事实的一部分,从而也导致事实与价值难以二分。在意识形态领域、学术研究、政府决策中区分事实与价值具有重要意义。     

我国跨境民族语言认同研究的现状与展望

语言认同是一种复杂的文化心理趋同现象,是其它认同的基础,深刻地影响着人们的语言行为。跨境民族的国家通用语认同、民族语认同和外语认同直接关系到国家发展战略、边疆民族地区社会安全稳定和民族语言文化的传承与保护。我国的跨境民族多,但国内学者关于跨境民族语言认同的研究还很少。基于现有语言认同研究相关文献,本文分析讨论了语言认同的基本概念和跨境民族语言认同研究现状,并提出了未来研究我国跨境民族语言认同的路径和建议。     

Solution-Focused Trauma-Informed Care (SF-TIC): An Integration of Models

Trauma-informed care is a rapidly emerging approach in child welfare and is significantly aligned with the core tenets and techniques of solution-focused practice. The integration of solution-focused practices and trauma-informed care offers an alternative to the problem-solving method frequently employed in child welfare. This paper describes and demonstrates how using a Solution-Focused Trauma-Informed Care (SF-TIC) approach can shift individuals and systems from a problem-solving focus to solution building. SF-TIC provides individuals with concrete skills, language and knowledge to effectively avoid inadvertent re-traumatization. Evaluation of this approach is in its infancy and future research is warranted.     

是消费主义女人,还是母亲?--《新快报》2004年母亲节专题"软文"分析

媒体,包括报纸、刊物、广播、广告等形式,都是交织着各种不同话语的场域。对一定范围内媒体内容的解读和分析,有助于理解媒介语言背后的文化意识和潜在话语力量的相互关系。本文的写作,便是基于这一基本观点的实践和尝试———选取广州《新快报》2004年5月出版的母亲节专题文章为分析对象,力图厘清其中不同话语的存在以及叙述策略;并通过分析表明,在“二十一世纪初的广州”这样一个特定的历史情境之下,《新快报》以怎样的方式切入“母亲节”这一主题设定,又以怎样的方式对该主题进行书写,塑造着“母亲”的角色内涵———更重要的是,文本话语当中的权力关系所呈现的各种矛盾和冲突,能否启示着另一种或者多种的阅读方式和策略。