Lexis plays a crucial role in every aspect of literacy learning. Words are the keys to constructing meaning with texts. A rich vocabulary boosts a student’s oral and written expression, reading comprehension, and viewing comprehension. At the same time, they not only help us name things, also help us...

There is no simple one-to-one relationship between genericity and a verb’s performance in tense and aspect. In middle constructions, the interaction between the referents of the overt clausal elements brings a complex interaction between genericity and a verb’s performance in tense and aspect. The implicit...

Two immigrant humor styles of stand-up comedy: word-play and performing are discussed in this study with reference to related linguistic theories. By a comparative analysis of two immigrant comedians’ stand-ups, we conclude that figurative language is a distinctive feature in Joe’s jokes to make people...

This paper presents arguments for the relationship between information processing strategy application and listening comprehension achievements from a cognitive perspective. An experiment is carried out to discover learners’ main information processing difficulties at three mental stages when listening...

The most common problem for an English learner is the difficulty in understanding the articles they are reading. Therefore, how to improve reading ability in learners draws more and more attention. The author of the paper has analyzed some common reading skills and put forwards some suggestions for the...

Grammar teaching is debated a lot related to its being taught or not in the field of second language teaching. ‘Focus on form’, suggesting that attention to form should be encouraged in communicative language classrooms, has aroused an increasing interest in the field of second language teaching methods....

Web-based English reading courses offer students have many ways to gain access to different reading materials to improve their reading ability, yet what is still urgently required in many classroom reading tests is a greater awareness of the actual processes involved in reading and the production of...

With the consulting of the relative literary works and ancient records, it can be clearly seen that the vocabularies of Gan dialect, with a long history, are complicated and diversified. The language sources stem from not only the basic lexical components of the languages of Miaoman and Baiyue, but also...

It is of great necessity and importance to probe into the function of one of the register variables—field in translating—reconstructing textual coherence. Based on the explication of concrete examples of E-C translation, field, as a parameter function of meaning reconstruction in a target text, is hopefully...

In recent years, with implementation of the Reform and Opening Policy as well as more frequent foreign exchange, the enhancement of social networking and information gathering and the widespread use of the Internet, more and more people are involved in intercultural communication. Change and new requirements...

The study of gender language is mainly concerned with how gender as a variable affects the ways people of different genders use language. In the past few decades, scholars have put forward deficit theory, difference theory and dominance theory, which opened a new era of gender language study. However,...

Trademark is one of the important ingredients of the product, the major signal of products are distinguished by the consumers and intangible asset of enterprises, which owns the function of value and value’s increasing. Trademark translation from one language to another need not only retain elites of...

In recent years English teaching has showed a obvious tendency of low age in China. Many experts believe that Childhood is a critical period of language development and we should pay attention to the development of their unique proficiency of studying foreign language. TPR Teaching Method is very popular...

The translation is a trans-cultural exchange, a good communication has become a bridge among different countries day by day along with the frequent intercourse of various countries and various nationalities, and good translation can promote the exchange. The foreignization and the domestication have...

The extensive reading is one of the efficient methods which may be conductive to the vocabulary acquisition of the second language; the process of studying English nearly can be regarded as a process of unceasing and circulating vocabulary acquisition. The extensive reading’s increases are very helpful...

English ambiguity is an intrinsic phenomenon of language itself and exists widely. English ambiguity mainly includes the semantic ambiguity caused by polysemous words and sentences of syntactic ambiguity which may contain different understanding at the aspect of structures. Syntactic ambiguity expresses...

With the rapid development of international communication and cooperation in all kinds in China, English has become one of international languages. So it is necessary to foster learners to grasp more language abilities. It is not only the main way of acquiring language information, but also the base...

Autonomous learning of Colleges English Listening (ALCEL) has been carried out in many college and universities for nearly ten years in China. However, the effect of ALCEL is not as good as expected. In order to probe problems of ALCEL, questionnaire on ALCEL was conducted in six local universities of...

Nida’s functional equivalence theory has a great influence among the translations circle throughout the world. The feasibility and instruction of his theory of English-Chinese or Chinese-English translation have been widely verified and confirmed. From the perspective of the theory, some techniques on...

The advancement of modern information technology is challenging the dominant role of language in mass media and communication. The study of discourse analysis goes beyond language itself by incorporating other semiotic resources such as image, sound and animation into its scope. Considering language...

This paper introduces a program practice on Middle Chinese corpus for CLP and historical grammar research. It discusses the principles and approaches which focs on how to choose texts for corpus, word segmentation and POS tagging. It also describes the contents and developing processes on the Specification...

The film translation, as a branch of literary translation, complies with the general principles of literary translation. However, the particularity of the film and television art determines the translation has difference with other literary works. In this paper, the author focus on five aspects to discuss...

Yan Shigu, a famous linguist, scribe and historian of the Tang Dynasty, is most famous as a linguist. He attached great importance to Chinese language standardization and had achieved major achievements in this regard through tireless efforts theoretically and practically. His proposal of the combination...

Based on Bakhtin's theory of discourse setting, the thesis analyzes discourse setting phenomenon in college English textbooks from the intrinsic elements and the basic characteristics of the discourse setting theory. And the thesis analyzes three aspects: background setting, language setting and thoughts...

Cantonese is one kind of Chinese dialects used by more than 70 million people and it’s the native dialect used by the biggest population in the world. Being one of the most absorbing language, the formation of Cantonese vocabulary is very complex. This paper introduces the representation of English influence...

Business correspondence is a written communication in the trade between the two sides. During the exchanges of business correspondence, the view of the two sides is to be expressed and communicated as well as ideas and information. Therefore, an effective exchange of business correspondence can help...

Online peer feedback can motivate students; Interests in English writing and improve their writing ability. It is to explore the effectiveness of online peer feedback by comparison it with the traditional teacher feedback with some data analysis from the application research in Linyi University

Language and culture are closely interweaved. Thereby, it is a must to know the culture that a language loads when learning a foreign language. The paper points out that Japanese teaching is not merely to impart students to language point out also to cultivate their cultural awareness. Only in this way...

Xi You Ji, the classical masterpiece of China, is well-known by its plentiful language and unique artistic style. Its theme, which is different to other classical fictions in China, relates to interflow of the worldwide cultural. There are plenty vivid idioms in Xi You Ji This makes Xi You Ji a treasure-house...

This paper analyzes the problems existing in current compilation of English textbooks. And it puts forward that corpora play an important role in the material source, data analysis, the choice of important points in teaching, the design of the classroom activities, teaching material research and the...

As a new learning method, M-learning has some typical characteristics, such as, easy access, individualized instruction, rich interaction and situational relevance, which can offer foreign language learning rich language inputs and interactive learning methods, and create authentic language environment....

Semantic prosody is the research focus in the field of second language acquisition. Corpus-based language learning is considered as an access to the improvement of second language acquisition and the reflection of lexical items along with particular connotations habitually. This paper is based on semantic...

With the rapid development of technology and the teaching practice of modern foreign language, modern educational technology plays an important role in the teaching of foreign language. Multimedia instruction has already been a modernized and vertical teaching mode and instrument. As China tends to communicate...

This study conducted at one university in Guangzhou, mainly examined the English majors’ pragmatic failure in both verbal and nonverbal communication and explores the possible causes from students’ perspectives. Combination of quantitative method and qualitative method were employed in the research including...

The aesthetic reception stresses on the reader’s response in the process of appreciation and understanding in literary works. The aesthetic experience based on individual growing and teaching experience is advocated in literary reading class. The interaction is achieved effectively between reader’s expectation...

we can read film montage anywhere in great Chinese poetry. We can also find the charm of Chinese poetry in the film montage. The reason is that the both are very common in the language structure and the figures of speech. Whether narrative, expressing emotions and thought or metaphor, contrast and symbol...

The article discusses the evolution of the lexical meanings of the words (KING) and its derivatives in the context of historical changes in different periods of formation of Russian linguistic world image. The study of lexemes of social semantics helps to characterize the axiological pluralism concerning...

Body language is visual signals used in people's social intercourse which include movements, postures, and facial expressions that communicate emotions, attitudes and auxiliary information. Body language can be classified into symbolic body language and physiological body language according to its property;...

With the increasing frequent communication between Russia and other foreign countries, learning of the counterparts’s language is becoming of more significance. At the same time, some nonverbal means also have a place in communicating for its positive functions when verbal means don’t make sense. However,...

Russian and Bulgarian possess formally similar reflexive constructions with the dative of experiencer, which have the common meaning of an uncontrolled/involuntary action. The paper brings forward the points of similarity and difference in semantics, co-occurrence patterns, stylistic behavior of these...

Mental representation, as a specific cognitive model which is associated with the human perception of the world and represents a unit of such perception, reflects the existence of a certain coding format or an inner (mental) model within human consciousness. Identification of the psychological meaning...

The universally accepted strategy for working with vocabulary in foreign language teaching presupposes two stages: the definition of the lexical items and their automatization. The current problem facing language teaching lies in how to compiling lexical minimum of Bulgarian as a foreign language for...

In the article it is said about the importance of learning terminology by the bilingual students at the lessons of Russian as a foreign language. The article not only gives a historical reference to the appearance of the terminology, but also puts a question of learning special terminology. It also gives...