This paper describes the project of artificial zonal language construction and first experiences with its use. The paper presents the design principles of this language and the sources of it: Old (Church) Slavonic, Interslavic project, and the False Friend of the Slavic project. Finally, the opportunities...

The previous researches mainly highlight the influences of lexical chunks upon English listening, reading and writing, never involving the relationship between lexical chunks and translation. To make it clear, through the analysis of the definition and classification of lexical chunks, the thesis throws...

Actually, Address forms play an essential role in the interpretation of the verbal humors. From the angle of pragmatics, address is also a speech act. Based on the speech act theory, the speech act of address in a contextual use of proper address forms is to express some feelings or achieve some goals....

This paper analyzes Ezra Pound’s creativeness in his translation Cathay of classical Chinese poems by an elaborated analysis from the perspective of functionalist approach. Under the great influence of classical Chinese poetry, Pound launches his career as a translator of Chinese poetry and publishes...

Based on contrastive analysis and error analysis, this paper attempts to explore word errors committed by non-English majors in their writing collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus. The aim is to offer Chinese learners some help concerning the methods to improve their English writing level and yield...

This paper analyzes the women’s linguistic characteristics under pragmatic perspective in several famous works in the 19th century. From the language analysis times and female consciousness are reflected in a philosophical way. The philosophical exploration and research of the language analysis are made...

For a long time, different people hold different view for whether Chinese traditional linguistics is philology or linguistics. This paper analyzes language research in various periods of China. It is more practical that Chinese traditional linguistics belongs to philology. Meanwhile, it can be seen that...

People have a variety of explanations for children's literature; some people think that children's literature is written of literature, while others believe that children's literature is education of literature. They look at different angles of children's literature, but there is a consensus that children's...

This paper discussed how to cultivate elementary school students’ growth mindset through the backward teaching design in English learning, hoping to promote students’ English language learning in a positive and sustainable way.

The effectiveness of teaching university students in large-class has been debated since 1924. In China, the popularity of higher education in 1999 makes overwhelming rise to school-age youth to enter universities; hence, large-class teaching even has become an important form of curriculum for English...

Context has very close connection with translation especially with literary translation. In literary works, context has an important function restricting translation process, and in turn translation, to a large degree, depends on context. Context is indispensable for translators to correctly understand...

Listening and Reading are two receptive skills involving learners’ language knowledge, background information, strategies, and skills. Generally speaking, second language learners do better in reading than in listening, and have a good command of reading skills. This paper presents how some readers’...

In many of the college English listening classrooms across the country, students are passively engaged in class listening tasks and their class performance needs to be improved. This study seeks to bring about improvements in student engagement and performance in the college English listening classroom...

Translation competence has been defined in various ways over the years. This paper tends to observe students’ competence of translating into a second language from the angle of target language competence, namely discourse or textual competence. A case that analyses the target texts of a group of non-English...

Foreign language testing is an important part of curriculum system of foreign language teaching in our country and begins in the early 1960s. It belongs to an interdisciplinary subject that involves linguistics, foreign language teaching method and psychology, and it is also an important means to check...

Sentence-level functional categories are the functional category with specific grammatical effects by the means of the whole-sentence, which usually include negative category, interrogative category and assumption category, etc. The categories in Irish all could be realized through adjoining operation...

Due to his insufficiency in linguistic realization rules as well as social-appropriateness rules, a Chinese L2 learner, more often than not, opts to make an offence unconsciously in their daily conversation with a native speaker. In order to restore harmony, as is disputed by Wolfson (1989), the act...

College English syllabus has been revised for seven times. It nationally reflects the significance of college English course. The 7th college English syllabus embodies the current national demand for talents, and also indicates the direction of college English teaching. On the base of the latest college...

Recently, people are paying more attention to College English teaching for arts undergraduates, which differ from that of science and engineering. This paper attempts to give some enlightenment on College English teaching in combination with characteristics of arts students and on the basis of a brief...

This paper discusses the factors contributing to the success of PBL College English teaching. Reasonable project design, development of learners’ participation awareness and abilities, as well as multi-dimensional project evaluation are all indispensable for the successful implementation of PBL College...

The present paper discusses the lexical variation of the lexemes of ‘divine quietness’ and ‘silence’, found in the two Slavonic versions of the Ascetical Homilies of Isaac the Syrian. The preference of the translator of version B for the lexeme ‘silence’ marks a new step in the process of creation of...