The presenter reports on a narrative survey study conducted in the spring of 2012 on 10 campuses across China.The purpose was to explore with a large group of university English teachers their percept
Chinese Mainland English majors are criticized for their inadequate development of humanistic qualities resulting from the mono-model of language skill-oriented curriculum with homogeneous required co
This article presents a microgenetic study of the development of English tense-aspect knowledge in an experiment group of non-English major university students,who voluntarily participated in a progra
The ultimate purpose of foreign language teaching is to cultivate students verbal communicative competence,which requires not only grammatical competence,but also pragmatic competence.It is of signifi
This study employs Vygotskys socio-cultural theory to investigate students classroom interactional competence (CIC) in a collaborative learning (CL) context.It locates its research setting in two Chin
While word classes has long been a hard nut to crack in modern Chinese grammar,word class labeling has in recent years become a major concern in Chinese and Chinese-English lexicography,which affects
An ideal translator-oriented Chinese-English dictionary not only should be able to assist the translator in his actual translating,but also should promote the teaching and learning of translation by i
Cultural education bears conspicuous importance in the development of a humanities-oriented English department in China.Teaching and researching culture is significant in designing cultural policies o
English teachers know that students learn well when teaching materials are relevant to their real needs to use the language.An important need for graduate students in science and technology (S&T) fiel