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With the globalization processing, intercultural communication and communicative failures have become more and more frequent. Cultural differences have become the major source of communicative failures. So it is necessary and important to raise intercultural communicative awareness. The author first analyzed the necessity of raising intercultural communication awareness, then discussed the principle...
The paper explores the differences between the English and Chinese languages through the theories of Contrastive Linguistics and also points out the characteristics of EST. English-Chinese translation skills of attributive clauses are discussed through examples and the impact of the differences of the two languages on the translation of EST writing is shown
The paper is based on a project launched in Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai, India in 2009. It details an innovative methodology to teach English and improve interpersonal relations in a multilingual classroom using music taken from popular English culture. English language learning has been limited to English for Specific Purposes in the Engineering community in India since...
In order to solve the problems in process-oriented writing class of English major and promote students' autonomy in the course learning, a corpus-based teaching mode is proposed in present paper. It analyzes the roles of corpus in English teaching and learning and designs a new type of writing class arrangement, which can nicely apply advanced technology of modern corpus into the process of writing...
This paper intends to discuss deeply about the theoretical foundation of CALL(Computer Assisted Language Learning)---Constructivism. Moreover, this review is ready to offer a new theoretical resource, which is often ignored by previous scholars. The author calls it SLA theoretical foundation of CALL--- a combination of Krashen's Comprehensible-Input Hypothesis and Swain's Comprehensible-Output Hypothesis'.
Task-based language teaching, as a learner-centered and humanistic way of teaching, involves the learners in performing tasks. Learners' needs analysis, which acts as the principal part in language teaching, will influence the curriculum design, teaching process, teaching methodology and teaching outcomes and elicit relative pedagogical implications.
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