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Scholarly attention for Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) has sharply increased in the past three years for its role in facilitating language learning as well as promoting language learners’ well-being. However, the conceptualization and measurement of FLE in China, which has the largest number of EFL learners in the world, is only just starting. Adopting a mixed-method approach, the current study...
This paper looks at multimodal humour through the lens of prototype theory in the framework of conventional incongruity theory of humour, aiming for a unified linguistic and semiotic approach to humour. From this perspective, humour can be achieved through the following three aspects of linguistic and non-linguistic categories: 1) prototypicality versus non-prototypicality of category members; 2)...
A simple and cost effective remodulation scheme based on a single two-section RSOA is proposed. In the two-section RSOA, the first section is served as a modulator to upload upstream signal and the second section works as an optical squeezer to effectively erase downstream data. The upstream performance dependence on the structural and operating parameters is investigated. The results show that the...
With the rapid rise of ESP in China in recent years, it's imperative that we should look deeper into the cognitive mechanism of the curriculum. The article explores the relationship between cognitive linguistics and English learning in China and analyzes its implications on the practice of ESP curriculum, including course design, textbook compilation, and teaching personnel development, etc.
The paper aims to explore into the non-pedagogical factors in China's English education as a whole. It analyses the underlying non-pedagogical problems that hinder the reorientation of English education in China and puts forward some remedies to the existing problems.
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