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Ye, Ruijuan – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper carries on a tentative interpersonal metafunction analysis of Barack Obama's victory speech from the interpersonal metafunction, which aims to help readers understand and evaluate the speech regarding its suitability, thus to provide some guidance for readers to make better speeches. This study has promising implications for speeches as…
Descriptors: Speeches, Persuasive Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)
Wang, Fengjuan – English Language Teaching, 2010
Mastering grammar is the foundation in the proficiency of a language. Grammar teaching is also an essential part of language teaching. However, with the communicative approach was introduced into China, many foreign language teachers gradually make little of grammar teaching. In terms of the theory of linguistics, this paper specifically explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Chen, Shaoying – English Language Teaching, 2010
The vocabulary learning is one of very important part in the college English teaching. Correct analysis of the result of vocabulary strategy instruction can offer feedbacks for English teaching, and help teachers to improve the teaching method. In this article, the issue how to use SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) to…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Vocabulary Development, College English, Reading Instruction
Asadollahfam, Hassan; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza – English Language Teaching, 2010
Two off-line and on-line reading tasks investigated the real-time comprehension of doubly quantified sentences with sentential negation interaction. The results showed that perceivers experienced processing difficulty in assigning inverse-scope interpretations to the sentences with double operators, not only when such sentences appeared in…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics, Interlanguage, Reading Comprehension
Xia, Xinrong – English Language Teaching, 2010
Based on the analysis of the questionnaire survey on learning motivation and learning needs of postgraduates and their demands and suggestions on English teaching, the paper makes a beneficial exploration on English course model for postgraduates in agricultural universities. Under the guidance of academic game theory, the "language skills+…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Birjandi, Parviz; Bagherkazemi, Marzieh – English Language Teaching, 2010
In the face of too much incoming information and too many people trying to convince us in today's world, the ability to think critically gains an ever greater saliency as a prime goal of student and teacher education. The present study aimed at substantiating the relationship between EFL teachers' critical thinking ability and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Pistone, Renee A. – English Language Teaching, 2010
Undergraduate and graduate students come to the writing center for consultations with peer tutors in order to improve their communication skills. During peer tutoring sessions (over the course of one semester) it became clear that these students were meeting with the tutors that I supervised, for more than just help with their writing. I observed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Tutors, Peer Teaching
Wang, Yuling – English Language Teaching, 2010
Based on Adaptation Theory, the article analyzes the production process of hedges. The procedure consists of the continuous making of choices in linguistic forms and communicative strategies. These choices are made just for adaptation to the contextual correlates. Besides, the adaptation process is dynamic, intentional and bidirectional.
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Communication Strategies, Context Effect, Decision Making
Liu, Feng – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper gives a short analysis of the nature of reading. Though it is generally believed that reading involves perceiving the written form of language, the term reading has not been clearly defined up to date. It is possible to see reading as a process, or to examine the product of that process. Three reading models, namely Bottom-up Model,…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Definitions, Models, Reading Research
Zhu, Zhuo – English Language Teaching, 2010
It has become many English educators' common view as well as spontaneous action to implement multimedia-assisted foreign language teaching. It is the advanced media technology that has changed the former teaching pattern. However, will such a teaching pattern achieve success? Under new circumstances, multimedia foreign language teaching seems a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Lv, Fenghua; Chen, Hongxin – English Language Teaching, 2010
Effective English writing has long been a challenge in English language teaching. With the development of cognitive psychology, metacognition has drawn more and more researchers' attention and provides a new perspective for EFL writing. Metacognitive theory mainly includes metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategy. Among all the learning…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Instruction, Learning Strategies, Vocational Education
A'lipour, Javad; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2010
One of the complaints made by EFL learners is that when it comes to the instruction of the linguistic sub-skills, i.e., grammar and vocabulary, the class tends to become boring. In many classes, there is as of yet no collaborative activities to facilitate the learning of these two important sub-skills. Most of EFL classes are reminiscent of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Skills, English (Second Language), English Instruction
Yu, Xiaoping – English Language Teaching, 2010
Hemingway is a famous American writer and a spokesman of the Lost Generation. His life attitude of the characters in the novels influenced the whole world. His first masterpiece "The Sun Also Rises" contributes a lot to the rise of feminism and make the world began to be familiar with a term: The New Woman through the portrayal of Brett.…
Descriptors: Novels, Females, Literary Devices, Feminism
Birjandi, Parviz; Tamjid, Nasrin Hadidi – English Language Teaching, 2010
During the last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the role of learner in the process of language learning and testing. Moreover, there is a general consensus in the literature that motivation is one of the key learner characteristics. The objective of this study was to explore the role of journal writing as a self-assessment technique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Learning Motivation
Du, Li – English Language Teaching, 2010
The paper analyzes the variables that can influence the validity of the reading part in the standardized test of CET (College English Test). They refer to the test methods and test content. As for the test method, the widely used are multiple-choice questions and short answer questions which can influence the test takers' performance and therefore…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Validity, Predictor Variables, Performance Factors