简介:OfsomethreethousandlanguagesnowusedintheworldEnglish,thoughnotthelargest(thelargestbeingChineselanguage),ismostwidelyspokenandofprimaryimportance.ConsequentlyEnglishliteratureoccupiesahighpositionintheworldliteratureaswell.LiteraryEnglishhasconcernwithbothlanguageandliterature.HereIwillpresentabriefdescription
简介:IntroductionNowadays,thecommunicativeapproachhasbecomeacommontrendinELTinChina,andtheterm’communicativecompetence’isoftenheardwhenEnglishteacherstalkabouthowtoimprovetheirstudents’abilitytouseEnglishcommunicatively.MostteachersnolongerusetraditionalmethodsofteachingEnglish,particularlytoteachspeaking,whichusedtoberestrictedtosentence-patterningwithgivenvocabularyforsubstitutiondrills.Theynowuseallkindsofmethodstoteachspeaking,suchasgroupdiscussions,news/eventsreports,story-telling,arguing,expressingopinions,etc..Alltheseactivitiesaremeanttodevelopstudents’abilitytouseEnglishcommunicatively.Tomanipulatetheseactivitieswell,andgetstudentsactivelyinvolvedintheactivities,oneimportantfactorindevelopingcommunicativecompetenceshouldbeemphasised:strategiccompetence.
简介:ThisarticledescribesanexperimentinvolvinganoralEnglishprogrammeconductedoverafour-monthperiodwithagroupoflearnersofESLinHuizhouUniversity.Theprogrammewasdesignedtoexaminewhethermethodinthedevelopmentofsubjects’listeningandspeakingskills,withparticularreferencetospeaking.
简介:Inthispaper,IwillbrieflyanalyzetheroleofmassmediainthedevelopmentofTibettourism.ThroughsomeexamplesandsometheoreticalanalysiswewillmainlydiscusstheproblemsandtheprospectsofTibettourismmedia.IsincerelyhopethisthesiswillprovidesomegoodsuggestionsandviewstothedevelopingofTibettourism.
简介:Recently,withuniversitydepartmentsputtingpressureonacademicsto‘publishorperish’,therehasbeenaglutofacademicarticles.Thisinturnhasresultedinanumberofnewjournalscateringforevermorespecificinterestgroups.OneofthemostrecenttoemergeistheJournalofPracticeinEducationforDevelopment,publishedbytheUniversityofManchester:SchoolofEducation
简介:IntroductionSomebooksaretobereadonlyinparts;otherstoberead,butnotcuriously;andsomefewtobereadwholly,andwithdiligenceandattention’(Bacon).WhatBaconsaidisquitetrue;weusedifferentreadingskillsfordifferentbooks,buthowcanwereadmostefficientlyandgetinformationintheshortestpossibletime?Somepeoplearguethatalargevocabularyisthemostimportantelement,itis’everything’.Byvocabularytheymeanthosewordswhichcanberecognizedordecodedinstantlyandforwhichtheyhaveanappropriateconcept.Tosomeextent,Iagreewiththisopinion-butIdothinkreadingisaverycomplicatedprocess-itisnotaseasyasallthat.Readingconcernsmanyaspectsofthelanguage.What’smore,weneedcertainskillsinreadingtogetthebestresultfromdifferentkindsofreadingmaterials.