More focuses of foreign language teaching theory and practice are on the study of first language and second language acquisition. The article deals with the concept of first and second language acquisition, the relati...More focuses of foreign language teaching theory and practice are on the study of first language and second language acquisition. The article deals with the concept of first and second language acquisition, the relationship between them and the factors influencing on them. The characteristics of the children acquisition and adult acquisition are also studied.展开更多
A new concept of language field and its value structure are presented in this paper for the first time and a describing framework is set forth for researching computational model of reasoning. On this basis we have es...A new concept of language field and its value structure are presented in this paper for the first time and a describing framework is set forth for researching computational model of reasoning. On this basis we have established a model of qualitative reasoning of causal relations and fuzzy integrated algorithm. Furthermore we have found a lot of its applications.展开更多
Sexism in the English Language is the reflector of a social sexism. The thesis is not only to discuss phenomena of sexism in English in terms of morphology, syntax and semantics, but also to focus on the origins and p...Sexism in the English Language is the reflector of a social sexism. The thesis is not only to discuss phenomena of sexism in English in terms of morphology, syntax and semantics, but also to focus on the origins and point out the ways of desexism.展开更多
Language variation is conditioned by complicated social factors such as class, age, occupation, education, sex, etc. all of which exert influences on one’s speech. Sex can be treated from two different angles in Euro...Language variation is conditioned by complicated social factors such as class, age, occupation, education, sex, etc. all of which exert influences on one’s speech. Sex can be treated from two different angles in European languages. One is biological sex; the other is gender (social gender). The social gender of a person plays a major role in influencing one’s speech.展开更多
Age is one of the factors which influnce foreign language learning, but not the most important one. Comparision on the effect of foreign language learning between adults and children cannot rely merely on age. So the ...Age is one of the factors which influnce foreign language learning, but not the most important one. Comparision on the effect of foreign language learning between adults and children cannot rely merely on age. So the question of an optimum age for foreign language learning is not a simple one which is only related to age. There are different optimum ages for different aims and demands of learning foreign language.展开更多
Sexism not only exists in the society, but is also reflected in English language. Although language can’t determine thought, in some sense, it does influence people’s views. In order to remind people of the harsh fa...Sexism not only exists in the society, but is also reflected in English language. Although language can’t determine thought, in some sense, it does influence people’s views. In order to remind people of the harsh fact and rectify the phenomenon, the author, by illustration and contrast, lists the manifestations of sexism in English, analyzes the causes and appeals to all the people for their contribution to the solution.展开更多
This paper empathizes the crucial importance of culture in ELT and analyzes the crosscultural communication block caused by differences between Western culture and Chinese culture on four aspects, which are differen...This paper empathizes the crucial importance of culture in ELT and analyzes the crosscultural communication block caused by differences between Western culture and Chinese culture on four aspects, which are different perception of the world, different perception of the self, different intercultural communication applications and different ideas of social relations. The author also puts forward some suggestions on how to solve the problem of crosscultural communication in English teaching,展开更多
Mistakes occur here and there when Chinese learners of English apply the foreign language in practice. This paper analyzes some common mistakes derived from cultural differences and tries to illustrate that language, ...Mistakes occur here and there when Chinese learners of English apply the foreign language in practice. This paper analyzes some common mistakes derived from cultural differences and tries to illustrate that language, as a part of culture should be taught and learnt as an integral part of learning about the target culture so that learners can gain a full understanding and good command of the foreign language.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
It is self-evident that vocabulary work is the most essential and necessary task in foreign language accepition. English language teachers should develop students’ vocabulary learning skills.
Category-based statistic language model is an important method to solve the problem of sparse data.But there are two bottlenecks:1) The problem of word clustering.It is hard to find a suitable clustering method with g...Category-based statistic language model is an important method to solve the problem of sparse data.But there are two bottlenecks:1) The problem of word clustering.It is hard to find a suitable clustering method with good performance and less computation.2) Class-based method always loses the prediction ability to adapt the text in different domains.In order to solve above problems,a definition of word similarity by utilizing mutual information was presented.Based on word similarity,the definition of word set similarity was given.Experiments show that word clustering algorithm based on similarity is better than conventional greedy clustering method in speed and performance,and the perplexity is reduced from 283 to 218.At the same time,an absolute weighted difference method was presented and was used to construct vari-gram language model which has good prediction ability.The perplexity of vari-gram model is reduced from 234.65 to 219.14 on Chinese corpora,and is reduced from 195.56 to 184.25 on English corpora compared with category-based model.展开更多
Differences in the structure and semantics of knowledge that is created and maintained by the various actors on the World Wide Web make its exchange and utilization a problematic task. This is an important issue facin...Differences in the structure and semantics of knowledge that is created and maintained by the various actors on the World Wide Web make its exchange and utilization a problematic task. This is an important issue facing organizations undertaking knowledge management initiatives. An XML-based and ontology-supported knowledge description language (KDL) is presented, which has three-tier structure (core KDL, extended KDL and complex KDL), and takes advantages of strong point of ontology, XML, description logics, frame-based systems. And then, the framework and XML based syntax of KDL are introduced, and the methods of translating KDL into first order logic (FOL) are presented. At last, the implementation of KDL on the Web is described, and the reasoning ability of KDL proved by experiment is illustrated in detail.展开更多
In developing and using measures of Language abilities, the most important consideration is the use of a language test, so that the most important quality of a test is its usefulness. A model of test usefulness is reg...In developing and using measures of Language abilities, the most important consideration is the use of a language test, so that the most important quality of a test is its usefulness. A model of test usefulness is regarded as the essential basis for quality control throughout the entire test development process. A model of test usefulness includes following qualities--validity, reliability, discrimination and backwash effects.展开更多
Second language acquisition can not be understood without addressing the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive theory can extend to describe learning strategies as complex cognitive skills. Theoretical...Second language acquisition can not be understood without addressing the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive theory can extend to describe learning strategies as complex cognitive skills. Theoretical developments in Anderson’s production systems cover a broader range of behavior than other theories, including comprehension and production of oral and written texts as well as comprehension, problem solving, and verbal learning.Thus Anderson’s cognitive theory can be served as a rationale for learning strategy studies in second language acquisition.展开更多
Being a prominent theory in the field of language teaching,sociocultural theory(SCT)has become widely applied since it gradually formed during the past century.An overall review and analysis of this theory may offer d...Being a prominent theory in the field of language teaching,sociocultural theory(SCT)has become widely applied since it gradually formed during the past century.An overall review and analysis of this theory may offer different angle for educators to teach languages well in modern times.This paper tries to provide an overview of the development and the main framework with some critical analysis of this theory.展开更多
Using Language是人教版高中英语教材中非常重要的一个板块，内含一篇与阅读板块内容相关的短文，该阅读材料体裁多样，内容广泛，具有时代性、基础性、选择性、发展性和思想性，符合中学生的年龄、心理特征和认知发展水平。正如其“使...Using Language是人教版高中英语教材中非常重要的一个板块，内含一篇与阅读板块内容相关的短文，该阅读材料体裁多样，内容广泛，具有时代性、基础性、选择性、发展性和思想性，符合中学生的年龄、心理特征和认知发展水平。正如其“使用语言”的字面含义一样，展开更多
文摘More focuses of foreign language teaching theory and practice are on the study of first language and second language acquisition. The article deals with the concept of first and second language acquisition, the relationship between them and the factors influencing on them. The characteristics of the children acquisition and adult acquisition are also studied.
文摘A new concept of language field and its value structure are presented in this paper for the first time and a describing framework is set forth for researching computational model of reasoning. On this basis we have established a model of qualitative reasoning of causal relations and fuzzy integrated algorithm. Furthermore we have found a lot of its applications.
文摘Sexism in the English Language is the reflector of a social sexism. The thesis is not only to discuss phenomena of sexism in English in terms of morphology, syntax and semantics, but also to focus on the origins and point out the ways of desexism.
文摘Language variation is conditioned by complicated social factors such as class, age, occupation, education, sex, etc. all of which exert influences on one’s speech. Sex can be treated from two different angles in European languages. One is biological sex; the other is gender (social gender). The social gender of a person plays a major role in influencing one’s speech.
文摘Age is one of the factors which influnce foreign language learning, but not the most important one. Comparision on the effect of foreign language learning between adults and children cannot rely merely on age. So the question of an optimum age for foreign language learning is not a simple one which is only related to age. There are different optimum ages for different aims and demands of learning foreign language.
文摘Sexism not only exists in the society, but is also reflected in English language. Although language can’t determine thought, in some sense, it does influence people’s views. In order to remind people of the harsh fact and rectify the phenomenon, the author, by illustration and contrast, lists the manifestations of sexism in English, analyzes the causes and appeals to all the people for their contribution to the solution.
文摘This paper empathizes the crucial importance of culture in ELT and analyzes the crosscultural communication block caused by differences between Western culture and Chinese culture on four aspects, which are different perception of the world, different perception of the self, different intercultural communication applications and different ideas of social relations. The author also puts forward some suggestions on how to solve the problem of crosscultural communication in English teaching,
文摘Mistakes occur here and there when Chinese learners of English apply the foreign language in practice. This paper analyzes some common mistakes derived from cultural differences and tries to illustrate that language, as a part of culture should be taught and learnt as an integral part of learning about the target culture so that learners can gain a full understanding and good command of the foreign language.
文摘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.
文摘It is self-evident that vocabulary work is the most essential and necessary task in foreign language accepition. English language teachers should develop students’ vocabulary learning skills.
基金Project(60763001) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2010GZS0072) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province,ChinaProject(GJJ12271) supported by the Science and Technology Foundation of Provincial Education Department of Jiangxi Province,China
文摘Category-based statistic language model is an important method to solve the problem of sparse data.But there are two bottlenecks:1) The problem of word clustering.It is hard to find a suitable clustering method with good performance and less computation.2) Class-based method always loses the prediction ability to adapt the text in different domains.In order to solve above problems,a definition of word similarity by utilizing mutual information was presented.Based on word similarity,the definition of word set similarity was given.Experiments show that word clustering algorithm based on similarity is better than conventional greedy clustering method in speed and performance,and the perplexity is reduced from 283 to 218.At the same time,an absolute weighted difference method was presented and was used to construct vari-gram language model which has good prediction ability.The perplexity of vari-gram model is reduced from 234.65 to 219.14 on Chinese corpora,and is reduced from 195.56 to 184.25 on English corpora compared with category-based model.
文摘Differences in the structure and semantics of knowledge that is created and maintained by the various actors on the World Wide Web make its exchange and utilization a problematic task. This is an important issue facing organizations undertaking knowledge management initiatives. An XML-based and ontology-supported knowledge description language (KDL) is presented, which has three-tier structure (core KDL, extended KDL and complex KDL), and takes advantages of strong point of ontology, XML, description logics, frame-based systems. And then, the framework and XML based syntax of KDL are introduced, and the methods of translating KDL into first order logic (FOL) are presented. At last, the implementation of KDL on the Web is described, and the reasoning ability of KDL proved by experiment is illustrated in detail.
文摘In developing and using measures of Language abilities, the most important consideration is the use of a language test, so that the most important quality of a test is its usefulness. A model of test usefulness is regarded as the essential basis for quality control throughout the entire test development process. A model of test usefulness includes following qualities--validity, reliability, discrimination and backwash effects.
文摘Second language acquisition can not be understood without addressing the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive theory can extend to describe learning strategies as complex cognitive skills. Theoretical developments in Anderson’s production systems cover a broader range of behavior than other theories, including comprehension and production of oral and written texts as well as comprehension, problem solving, and verbal learning.Thus Anderson’s cognitive theory can be served as a rationale for learning strategy studies in second language acquisition.
文摘Being a prominent theory in the field of language teaching,sociocultural theory(SCT)has become widely applied since it gradually formed during the past century.An overall review and analysis of this theory may offer different angle for educators to teach languages well in modern times.This paper tries to provide an overview of the development and the main framework with some critical analysis of this theory.
