Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
141 articles
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Research on Logistics Talents Cultivation Strategy Against the Background of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things
Yuxing Dong
The development of China’s logistics industry shows a trend of specialization and intelligentization. The quality of logistics practitioners has become an important factor hindering the development of China’s logistics industry. This paper uses the empirical analysis method, through the logistics industry...
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“Need of the Others”: a Study on the Evolution of “Global Vision” in American Higher Education (1945–2019)
Jie Li, Yi Peng
After the end of the Second World War, the global international system initially took shape, making the United States the only builder and leader of the world order. From then, the “Global Vision” in American higher education began to emerge. Taking both the cultural root, namely, “Need of the Others”,...
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Bibliometric Visualisation: an Application in Tourism Higher Education Research
Xiaowen Hu
Higher education in tourism plays an important role in tourism industry development, while few studies have utilized bibliometric visualisation method to explore this research area. A total of 349 papers related to higher tourism education were identified and a set of high frequency word analysis, co-occurrence...
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Research on the Classification and Function of Chinese and Malaysian College Students’ Organizations
Taking UNITEN(Universiti Tenaga Nasional) and BITZH (Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai) as Examples
Junwei Yang
Student organizations are an important organization form of college students and an important supplier of campus culture, and they are the leaders of the second course. As a platform for students’ self-growth and self-exercise, university organizations are a bridge to enter and experience society. By...
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Policy Analysis of Inclusive Private Kindergarten in Western China
Taking the Three Provinces, Municipalities and Autonomous Regions in the Western Region as an Example
Guobin Jun
This paper analyzes the contents of the policies of the three western provinces and cities. It’s found that the policies of inclusive private kindergartens have their own characteristics: first, they provide financial support for orphans, poor children and other vulnerable groups; second, they provide...
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Research on Inclusive Education for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Children in Southern Jiangxi
Yihui Li, Mengyuan Li
This article describes the characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and analyzes the development status of inclusive education for ASD children in Southern Jiangxi and the difficulties that may be encountered in the implementation based on the development status of inclusive education for such...
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“Learning” as the Center: the Path of Constructing the Motivation Mechanism for Improving the Quality of Classrooms in Innovative Classes in Applied Universities
Minggang Zhan, Lihua Huang
Focusing on the classroom motivation improvement goal generation mechanism, resource guarantee mechanism, management mechanism of the classroom motivation improvement process and the classroom motivation feedback and improvement mechanism, etc., this paper studies the innovation path of classroom practice...
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Study on the Optimization of TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) from the Perspective of Educational Psychology of Foreign Language
Yanmei Zhao, Zhufen Yang
Seen from educational psychology of foreign language teaching, the author aims to explore the effective methods and strategies of teaching Chinese as a foreign language by analyzing the psychological characteristics of overseas students and the factors influencing their Chinese acquisition. Therefore,...
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Comparative Quantitative Analysis of Tibetan and English Language and Culture in China from 1981 to 2019
Daiqiong Liu
This article sorts out 95 Chinese Tibetan-English language and cultural journal articles from 1976 to 2012, and analyzes the literature using statistical methods. The results show that the existing results have achieved certain research results in Tibetan-English grammar, Tibetan-English pronunciation,...
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Application of BOPPPS (Bridge-in, Objective, Pre-assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-assessment, Summary) Teaching Model in Electronic Technology Courses
Li Wen, Yuting Zhao, Jingna Cui, Yiyan Lei, Wenhui Hao
Based on the characteristics of the six steps in BOPPPS (Bridge-in, Objective, Pre-assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-assessment, Summary) teaching model, this paper analyzes the feasibility of applying BOPPPS teaching model to electronic technology courses, Taking the “differential amplifier circuit”...
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Research on the Application of Smart Classroom in the Training of Learning Motivation for Preschool Education Majors
Shuyin Liu, Lihua Huang
Smart classroom is a new type of learning space that integrates digital teaching resources, intelligent environment, ecological model, and classroom experience. It integrates modern education concepts and cutting-edge Internet of Things technology on the basis of traditional classrooms, which drives...
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The Cultivation of Postgraduate Code of Conduct Based on Research Methods Courses
Mingzhu Zhang
It is necessary to improve graduate students’ code of conduct in research to ensure the quality of graduate student education, thus to ensure the quality of education research. However, it is difficult to cultivate the knowledge, practical ability, awareness, and habits of code of conduct for research...
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Research on the Development of College English Teaching Lectures in Higher Vocational Colleges
Yan Zhang
According to the characteristics of higher vocational colleges and their students, this paper believes that it is imperative to develop a set of colloquial English teaching lectures that are complementary to the textbooks. In the process of designing college English lectures, not only the vocational...
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Discussion on the Application of Metaphor in English Culture Teaching
Lijun Shen
As a language phenomenon and cognitive mechanism, metaphor is rooted in culture and is a part of culture, reflecting the content of culture. Through the cultural nature of metaphors, people can see the commonality and particularity of cultures in different countries. This article starts with the relationship...
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Research on Teaching Operation and Management of Guangdong Higher Vocational Colleges Under the Enrollment Expansion of Million Students
Xiongping Huang
This paper is based on the background of the enrollment expansion of million students in higher vocational colleges proposed in the government work report, which is an important measure to improve the vocational quality and skills of citizens. This paper takes the higher vocational colleges in Guangdong...
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Analysis on the Innovation of Higher Education Network Teaching Management from the Perspective of Internet
Jingfeng Tan
Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, higher education has changed from the original traditional teaching to network teaching. This change will undoubtedly promote the development of higher education teaching in the new era. From the perspective of the long-term development of higher education,...
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Discussion on the Theoretical and Practical Studies of Campus Culture
Junwei Xie
Campus culture is the internal support and driving force for the survival and development of the school. Aiming at re-recognizing and re-exploring the campus culture theory and practice, this paper differentiates and analyses campus cultural management, campus cultural construction and school cultural...
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Cultural Penetration and Teaching Strategies in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
Bing Han
Language and culture are inseparable. Cultural penetration in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages plays an important role in improving foreign students’ understanding of language, cultivating their cross-cultural communicative competence and enriching teaching content. This article makes...
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A Study on the Learning Effects of a Blended Listening and Speaking Course
A Case Study of Medicine-related EFL Learners
Kailun Lu, Qiwen Chen
This study constructed the blended listening and speaking instruction mode for medicine-related EFL learners, and investigated its effect on 48 students in China. The study was conducted via the pre- and post-test, questionnaire survey and blended listening and speaking instruction in 12 weeks. The results...
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Research on Process Evaluation for College Japanese Teaching Based on “Japan Foundation Can-do” Standard
Dongmei Jin
The core content of the JF (Japan Foundation) standard is to transplant the CEFR (The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) standard into Japanese teaching. The key content is the “JF Can-do” Japanese education teaching evaluation system. While applying the “JF Can-do” standard to the...
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Study on Teaching Mode of History of Mathematics Based on “Outcomes-based Education (OBE)”& “History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM)” Taking Harbin University as an Example
Chunyan He, Gang Zhu
Based on professional certification concept “Outcomes-based Education (OBE)” and some relevant research results on “History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM)”, a teaching mode was constructed in the course “History of Mathematics”. The feedback of the teaching in past years shows that the mode can effectively...
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Implementation and Consideration of Online Teaching of Physical Education Courses in Chinese Universities Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xuanjin Zhu, Hangping Wang
This paper studies the implementation of online teaching of physical education courses in Chinese universities under the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic by means of literature review and other methods. The study holds that the online teaching of sports courses carried out currently in Chinese...
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The Employment Guidance Model Based on the Psychological Characteristics of Deaf College Students
Fang Lan
Based on the analysis of the psychological state and employment situation of deaf college students, this paper puts forward the mode of employment ability training based on the psychological characteristics of deaf students. At present, the employment market of deaf students is relatively narrow. In...
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Study on the Synergy of Moral Education Community
Zheng Cao
Under the new social environment, “community” has created favorable conditions for the development of moral education. The cognition of the synergy of moral education community is helpful to understand the connotation of moral education community and promote its development. The synergy theory corresponds...
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Curriculum Leadership Community Construction and Implementation Strategies
Youhua Gao, Dongxu Han
The research content of curriculum leadership reveals its essence and constructs curriculum leadership community according to the characteristics of sharing, distribution and innovation of curriculum leadership. The research mainly adopts literature method and content analysis method to classify and...
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The Application of Metaphor Theory in the Teaching of Polysemy Content Words in Chinese as a Foreign Language
Zhiyuan Hao
The metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics theory has outstanding guiding ability in the teaching of polysemy content words in Chinese as a foreign language. Based on metaphor theory, this article starts with the word-formation morphemes, the metaphorical derivation of word meaning, the cultivation...
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A Study on the Self-assessment of Japanese Proficiency of Japanese Majors
Yansong Qu
In this paper, 170 junior Japanese major students are taken as the research objects. Through the Japanese ability Self-evaluation Scale, the self-evaluation level of Japanese major students and the relationship between self-evaluation and Japanese international ability test (JLPT) scores are investigated....
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Analysis on the Characteristics of Online English Contests and Its Backwash Effect
Weirong Li
During the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus pneumonia) epidemic, an educational technology company in Guangzhou, Guangzhou Foreign Language Association and Guangdong higher vocational colleges jointly organized three online English skill contests of “English Reading Aloud”, “English Writing” and “English...
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A Brief Study on the Cultivation of Meta-cognitive Strategies in English Majors’ Pronunciation Learning
Jingxin Wang
The article deals with the problem of English pronunciation learning strategies. Pronunciation is particularly important for English majors, which directly affects the effectiveness of communication, but the improvement of pronunciation learning and teaching is complicated. The article reviews the previous...
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Analysis on the Application and Challenge of Educational Big Data in University Teaching Management
Siyao Li
In the era of big data, due to the continuous improvement of university information construction, university databases have shown explosive growth, and the application environment of educational big data has initially formed. In today’s rapid development of science and technology, the rational and efficient...
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Exploration on the Construction of General Education Curriculum System Under the New Business Concept in School of Business
Yinhua Yao, Tingting Yang
This thesis introduces the “new business” concept and its requirements for business talent training, analyzes general education curriculums of benchmarking business schools in US and UK, and finally puts forward some implications on how to reconstruct the general education curriculum in business school....
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Innovation and Practice of the Cooperative Education Mechanism of Industry and Education Under the “Double High Plan”
Shaoqin Lu
The integration of industry and education is the fundamental and essence of vocational education. The “Double High Plan” construction colleges need to innovate on the mechanism of collaborative education between industry and education to further enhance the role of the industrial chain in the training...
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Application of Active Learning in Classroom Teaching of Vocational Colleges
Tongli Yin
Through the comparative study of the active learning and the traditional learning, this paper sorted out the characteristics and advantages of the active learning, proposed the necessity of implementing the active learning in the classroom teaching of vocational colleges, and summarized and reflected...
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Research on the Classroom Teaching of “Comprehensive Japanese Course” of Japanese Major
Yan Cheng
This article takes the “Comprehensive Japanese Course” in the Japanese professional education of Chinese universities as the research object. The teachers of “Comprehensive Japanese Course” were investigated by questionnaire and interview to clarify the problems existing in “classroom language environment”...
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Study on the Relationship Between Affective Strategies in Chinese Character Learning and Chinese Proficiency for International Students in China
Yanping Ying
Through case study, interview and questionnaire survey, it is found that the use of affective strategies affects the learning effect of Chinese characters of international students, and ultimately affects the learning effect of Chinese language. The use of affective strategies in Chinese character learning...
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The Diagnosis and Development of College English Teachers’ Information Literacy Under the Concept of Small Private Online Course in China
Weirong Li
The development of modern information technology and the wide application of information technology in college teaching have put forward new requirements and standards for teachers’ information literacy and teaching standard. College English teachers should pay attention to the cultivation of their professional...
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Application of Flipped Classroom in College English Teaching of Chinese Undergraduate Students Majoring in Arts and Physical Education
Bingbing Zhang
This paper focuses on the application of flipped classroom in college English teaching of undergraduates majoring in arts and physical education who usually have a relatively weak foundation in English. By analyzing problems existing in current college English teaching of students majoring in arts and...
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Study on Improving the Learning Motivation of Business English Majored Students Based on Case Teaching Method
Ziqi Zhu
The purpose of this study is to know about the status quo of learning motivation of business English majored students at the undergraduate level, investigate the differences of such students’ learning motivations under case teaching method and traditional telling method, and find the correlation between...
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The Efficacy of Oral Grammar Error Correction in Classroom
Dongmei Zhou
Oral grammatical error correction is a complicated process in language learning. When learners’ errors should be corrected is a controversial debate. This paper analyzes the timing of oral grammar error correction and discusses the three choices in correcting errors — immediate correction, delayed correction...
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Thoughts and Exploration of Online College English Teaching in the Context of “Corona Virus Disease 2019” Epidemic
Wei Yang
During the “Corona Virus Disease 2019” (COVID-19) epidemic prevention and control period, the Ministry of Education proposed that colleges and universities as well as primary and middle schools in various places postpone the opening date of spring semester and use the online platform to carry out “non-stop...
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An Analysis of Chinese-English Translation of Political Terms from the Perspective of Adaptation and Selection Theory
Dongxiu Lan
Chinese political terms are characterized by China’s political system and culture. Translation of political terms with Chinese characteristics will help the world to better understand China and China’s political system and culture. Due to the historical, political, economic and cultural differences between...
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Translation Competence Development: the Focus in Translation Teaching
Junping Wang, Rui Zhao, Nannan Ju, Yuan Yu
In order to improve students’ translation competence through translation teaching, this paper begins with a rigorous literature review and figures out the specific teaching focus as improving students’ abilities to evaluate and select the better translation from all seemingly correct ones available....
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Research on the Teaching of College English Writing
Xin Wang, Xiangyu Jiang, Xianwei Li
Writing ability is one of the most important abilities for college students. But, it has been regarded as the weakest for most Chinese college students. This paper analyzes the problems that most college students have in writing; discusses the challenges that the teaching of college English writing meets;...
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Study on Application of the Coherence Principle to Business English Correspondence and Its Teaching Implications
Zhuanggui Li
Coherence is one important concept in discourse analysis. This paper selects one case of business English correspondence as the research subject to demonstrate how the coherence principle is applied to business English discourse. Through analyzing cohesion and coherence in business English correspondence,...
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Research on the Application of Big Data in Ancient Chinese Teaching
Baolin Zhang, Jianyu Zhang
At present, big data has been applied in various fields and plays an important role in all aspects of society. Colleges and universities are gradually introducing relevant contents, and ancient Chinese teaching is also introducing relevant concepts and applying them to actual teaching. This paper expounds...
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The Tool of Making Quantitative Researches for Foreign Language Teachers
Review on “Learning Statistics from Examples of Second Language Research”
Zhen Huang
Quantitative statistical method is an “important tool” for foreign language teachers to display their skills in second language research. The main content of this paper is to review the book “Learning Statistics from Examples of Second Language Research” published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research...
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A Survey on Online English Learning Motivation of Chinese College Students
Ming Lv, Xuesong Liu
This paper implements investigations about the motivation of online English learning among the college students in China. 160 college students are investigated based on Gao Yihong’s classification of motivation type. The result shows that individual development motivation, achievement motivation, learning...
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The Significance of Collocational Knowledge for Learners of English and Teaching Implications
Lei Zhang
The article deals with the issue of collocational knowledge in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learning and some implications for English language teaching. By drawing the due attention to collocations in English and certain barriers EFL learners might encounter, the paper encourages the discussion...
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Investigation on the Effectiveness of “Production-oriented Approach” in Senior High School English Writing Expression Strategies
Yumin Huang
Through a 16-week teaching experiment, this study examines the impact of production-oriented approach, which is based on the hypothesis of output-driven, input-enabled and teacher-student cooperative evaluation, on the senior high school English writing expression strategies from three dimensions of...
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Integration of Social and Cognitive Genre in Syllabus Design of English Academic Writing Course for Chinese Graduate Learners
Hua He, Haiyan Wang
Genre-based pedagogy in ESP tradition has been increasingly popular in English Academic Writing class for Chinese non-English major graduate learners. This paper designs a syllabus framework based on an integration of social and cognitive genre constructs, with the expectation of offering a pedagogically...
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A Study on the Evaluation of College Students’ Critical Thinking Ability in Translation Based on Think-aloud Protocols
Fei Luo
This paper analyzes the composition of students’ critical thinking ability in translation by using the audio thinking method in cognitive empirical research, and analyzes the thinking errors and defects in English-Chinese translation of students in translation majors. It thus puts forward translation...
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Research on the Application of BOPPPS Teaching Mode in the Interactive Integration of Online and Offline Teaching in Colleges and Universities During Post-epidemic Period
Ning Yang
BOPPPS (namely “Bridge-in, Objective, Pre-assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-assessment, and Summary”) teaching mode, a new and effective teaching mode from Canada, covers six modules of bridge-in, objective, pre-assessment, participatory learning, post-assessment and summary. It fully embodies...
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Study on Making the Course of “Practical Modern Chinese” in Colleges and Universities More Practical
Chong Wang, Xiaotong Yang
“Practical Modern Chinese”, as a basic core course for some majors in colleges and universities, is supposed to have stronger practical characteristics compared with the course “Modern Chinese”. In addition to the basic application of Chinese language and characters and the training of the basic ability...
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Study on the Balance of Ethnocentrism and Western Cultural Hegemony in College Intercultural Instruction
Xiaojing Chen
This paper provides an academic analysis on college intercultural instruction. The analysis reveals that Ethnocentrism and Western culture hegemony are two negative attitudes intercultural teachers and learners commonly hold in the process of intercultural teaching and learning, which would inevitably...
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Research on the Quality Assurance System of College English Micro-lecture for Art Majors
Lu Tang
Students majoring in Art in colleges and universities are a special group in universities. Constructing a quality assurance system for college English micro-lecture for art majors is of great significance to art students’ English learning. In recent years, the development of mobile Internet has made...
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The Practical Dimension of Syncretic Thinking of “Intelligence and Education”
Jingwen Ji
Based on the discussion of human-machine subjectivity in the intelligent age, it will gain insight into the core motivation of the intelligent shift in contemporary education. This paper introduces and summarizes the educational development concept of syncretic thinking, and elaborates the goal of future...
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Chinese-English Parallel Corpus-driven Teaching of Applied Translation and Interpreting
Chunxiao Ma
With the rapid social and economic development, and the increasingly frequent international exchanges, the demand for high-quality translators and interpreters is surging. However, the current traditional cultivation models in many colleges and universities no longer keep pace with the growing demand...
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The Conception and Operating Mechanism of the New Platform for Fujian-Taiwan Historical and Cultural Exchange
Yu Chen
Fujian and Taiwan are separated by a strip of water, the customs are the same, and the people of the two provinces are close to each other. The cultural exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan have very close historical origins. This article starts with reviewing the history of cultural exchanges between...
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Suggestions on the Cultivation of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Military English Teaching
Wenhui Hao, Mei Song
Military exchanges and cooperation among countries has continuously expanded the functions and tasks of the armed forces and put forward new and higher requirements on the foreign language ability of military personnel. Intercultural communication awareness and ability have become an important component...
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Learning Story: a Child Development Evaluation Model of New Zealand
Juan Li
This study analyzes the connotation, characteristics and evaluation process of “learning story”, a learning development evaluation model that originates from New Zealand and focuses on children’s ability and learning process. Through the horizontal comparison between “learning story” and traditional...
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The Enlightenment of New Zealand’s “Learning Story” on Implementing the Spirit of China’s “Guide to Learning and Development for 3-6 Years Old Children”
Juan Li
This study tries to find the connection between the ideas conveyed by New Zealand’s “learning story” and the spirit of China’s “Guide to Learning and Development for 3-6 Years Old Children” (hereinafter referred to as “Guide”) and the enlightenment significance of the theory and practice of “learning...
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Mixed Study of College English Classroom Reticence
Hui Ma, Xiangyu Jiang, Yunyun Xia
A large amount of effective classroom interaction is a necessary condition for students to master a foreign language well. But in China, classroom reticence is a ubiquitous phenomenon which prohibits students’ effective communication, especially in universities specialized in science and engineering....
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Study on the English Course Setting for the Non-common Languages Majors in Shandong Province
Shuwen Tan
This study selects nine colleges and universities in Shandong Province that offer non-common language as the research object. Through detailed data, it analyzes the current status of colleges and universities that have offered non-common language majors in the province in terms of English curriculum...
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Reflection and Improvement on the Localization of New Zealand’s “Learning Story” in China
Juan Li
This research focuses on the criticism and doubt encountered in the practice of the heterogeneous educational theory of “learning story” in New Zealand. On this basis, through in-depth analysis and comparison of different social cultures and specific national conditions rooted in different educational...
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Research on the Public Education System of Textile Intangible Heritage in Museums
Taking the Ethnology Museum, South-Central University for Nationalities as an Example
Fan Liu, Jie Chen
The intangible cultural heritage of textile is the treasure of human history and civilization, and the carrier of the fine traditional culture of all ethnic groups. As important space for public education, museums shoulder the important mission of inheriting traditional Chinese culture. Taking the Ethnology...
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Inspirations of Automatic Speech Production Research to Foreign Language Teaching
Rouhua Wang
This paper is about the promotion to foreign language teaching from the automatic speech production research in syntactic priming experiment, which use E-prime2.0 and its SR-Box to college students to do online experiment. The research findings indicate that among many personal factors, language proficiency,...
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A New Study on Chinese Teaching of Donggan Students in Central Asia from the Perspective of Inheritance Theory
Huan’gai Zhao, Heping Wu
In recent years, the teaching and acquisition of inheritance language has received more and more attention from academic circles. However, teaching research for Chinese learners of the Donggan nationality in Central Asia is rare. The article starts from the Chinese teaching practice of Donggan international...
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The History of Ethnic Minorities’ Language Education in Inner Mongolia
Jin Xu, Feng Wang
The paper adopts the research methods of literature, historical research, comparative research, and studies the history of minority language education in Inner Mongolia before and after the founding ceremony of the People’s Republic of China. The paper draws the following conclusions: before the founding...
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Two English Versions of “Changgan Xing”: a Systemic and Functional Linguistics Interpretation
Kejuan Cheng
From a Systemic Functional perspective, this paper made a comparison of the ideational, interpersonal and textual functions of two translated versions of Li Bai’s “Changgan Xing”. Adopting Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL), this article first gave a clear description of the metafunctions...
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Comparative Study of Crowdsourcing Translation, Machine Translation and Computer-aided Translation in the Information Age
Zhen’gang Yang
The possibilities afforded by information and computer technology in rendering the translator’s work more efficiently and effectively are diverse and far-reaching. Meanwhile, with the rapid development in language service industry, translation technology itself is becoming a diversified and hybrid technology...
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Research on English-Chinese Translation of Long and Difficult Sentences by Generalized Logistic Regression Parsing Algorithm Based on Neural Network
Liang Wu
One of the difficulties in E-C translation is long and difficult English sentence. An accurate and effective identification and parsing of long and difficult English sentences is directly related to the translation quality. This paper uses GLR syntax (Generalized Logistic Regression syntax) based on...
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A Corpus-based Study of Time Functions and Translations of Chinese Particles Le and Its Pedagogic Implications
Furong Kou
The study is undertaken to find out the time functions and translation of Chinese particle le whose functions of the particle are analyzed from the perspectives of Cognitive Linguistics and Systemic-Functional Linguistics, and its translation methods are explored within the framework of Nida’s theory...
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Decategorization and the Flexible Use of Adjectives in the Chinese Classics
Kefei Yan
The flexible use of adjectives is an important part of the ancient Chinese parts of speech. This paper attempts to analyze and demonstrate the essence and causes of the flexible use of adjectives in ancient Chinese by using the decategorization theory in order to correctly interpret the text of Chinese...
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Research on Translation of Shaanxi’s International Publicity Materials from the Perspective of Audience Reception
Ruihua Nai
Based on the example of the English translation of Shaanxi’s publicity materials, this paper discusses the reception habit of the audience in the context of “the Belt and Road Initiative”, and establishes the audience’s identity to achieve the best effect of publicity. At the same time, the government...
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Research on the Translation of Culture-loaded Items of To Live from a Relevance-Pragmatic Approach
Caiying Wang
The translation of political culture-loaded items about the Cultural Revolution of the novel To Live is discussed from a relevance-pragmatic approach. The translator of the novel flexibly employed different translation methods to make the translation accurate and fluent while attempting to retain the...
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A Study on the Construction of English-Chinese Consecutive Interpreting Corpus
Xian Shao
In the late 1990s, corpus linguistics began to serve as an important research method in interpreting studies. But after twenty-year development, corpus-based interpreting studies remain at an infant stage compared with corpus-based translation studies, mainly due to the limitation of availability of...
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The Figure-ground Theory in the Chinese Poetry Translation Strategies
A Case Study on Seeing Meng Haoran Off at Yellow Crane Tower
Jingyun Huang
This paper projects figure-ground theory onto the translator’s dynamic cognition around the translation process, exploring the cognitive translation strategies for the Chinese poetry adopted by the translator. Taking Seeing Meng Haoran Off at Yellow Crane Tower as an example, this paper focuses on three...
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The Study of Foreign Language Ability Rating Scale Applied to Military English
Meng Li, Na Zhang, Qiong Jin
At present, there are few studies on English teaching based on China English proficiency rating scale. The purpose of this study is to explore whether the China English proficiency rating scale has practical value for English teaching in military academies, and to explore how to use the scale to implement...
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Research on the Use of Echoing Performance on Japanese TV Talk Shows
Hongli Xu
This paper investigates and analyzes the use of echoing performance in Japanese TV talk shows. Based on the dialogues of 17 people aged from 20 to 70, the types, usage rates, frequency and position of echoing performance are analyzed. There are a variety of echoing performances, among which 115 kinds...
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Ambiguity and Differentiation of “V Xia N” Pattern
Shuang Yang
“V Xia N” is a high-frequency phrase in spoken Chinese. “Xia” here can be both directional verb and time measure word, causing ambiguity when employed in the same pattern “VN”. The paper analyzes the continuity and autonomy of “VN” combined with “Xia” of different parts of speech, and clarifies the meaning...
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Changes of Chinese Names from the Perspective of the Evolution of Symbolic Rhetoric Four Master Tropes
Jie Zeng
Semiotic rhetoric four master tropes follow the law of transformation of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. There is a negative progressive relationship between the four master tropes. Each one of semiotic rhetoric is the negation of each other. This principle corresponds to the development of...
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The Acquisition of Word Order of Ditransitive Constructions Based on Typological Perspective
Yongxian Liang
In this article, the researchers investigated children’s order preference of ditransitive constructions in Japanese, German, Mandarin and Cantonese based on typological conclusions. The researchers found consistency in order preferences between children and worldwide languages. ARTV (linear sequence...
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Study on the Phenomenon of Metonymy in Cantonese from the Cognitive Perspective
Cuiyan Lan
Different from those in Mandarin Chinese, some references in Cantonese adopt metonymy. From the perspective of cognition, this paper takes the conceptual metonymy as the analytical framework to analyze the typical metonymic references in Cantonese, so as to illustrate the penetration of metonymy thinking...
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The Use of Preferred Argument Structure by Chinese and American Monolinguals in Oral Narratives
Xiangyu Jiang, Min Zhang, Xin Wang
This article presents the use of preferred argument structure by 12 Chinese and 12 American monolinguals in the oral narrative task. Obvious unique linguistic features employed by each group have been figured out. For example, Chinese subjects used more transitive clauses; Chinese would put more lexical/...
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The Semantic Extension and Generalization of Chess Words and Phrases
Feng Wang
With Chinese chess vocabulary and idioms as the research objects, this paper takes an approach of the combinations of traditional word meaning research, cognitive linguistic and cultural linguistics, analyzes the mirror relationship between Chinese chess vocabulary and Chinese chess playing culture....
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Application of “Three-Beauty” Principle in Trademark Words Translation
Cui Min
To win the foreign market, a proper translation of trademark words is the first and foremost matter to consider. According to aesthetic pursuit of customers, this paper analyzes the features and translation skills of trademark words based on the “Three-Beauty” Principle proposed by Xu Yuanchong. Based...
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An Ethical Analysis of Imagery Translation in Ancient Chinese Books and Records
A Case Study of Six Chapters of a Floating Life
Weiwei Cao
Translation ethics mainly focuses on the ethics and norms in translation studies. Based on ethical-approach translation studies and employing quantitative explanations interspersed with supplementary qualitatively-based case analysis, this thesis explores the cultural imagery in Six Chapters of a Floating...
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Study on the Understanding and Translation of Metaphors in a Specific Context
Wei Zhou, Bei Gao
The understanding of a metaphor is determined in a specific context. In actual translation, translators devote considerable amount of work to determining specific meanings of metaphors in light of the context. This paper attempts to state the understanding of metaphors in a specific context and put forward...
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A Corpus-based Study of Translation Styles of Two Russian Versions of Tao Te Ching
Bangjun Xu, Guonian Wang
This paper compares the translation styles of two Russian versions of Tao Te Ching and their narrative points of view from the perspective of macro-linguistic characteristics by using corpus method. It is found that the two Russian translations do not show obvious translation styles in terms of macro-linguistic...
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The Effect of Language Experience on Stroop Effect by Chinese English Learners
Min Zhu
Due to the different speed of information processing, word meaning contradicting the color would hinder color recognition, a phenomenon known as Stroop interference effect, however whether there is a language experience effect on Stroop effect is less known. In order to investigate this issue, 20 Chinese...
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Study on the Chinese-English Translation of Dietary Words and Phrases in Bailuyuan
Xiaohua Guo
The novel Bailuyuan by Chen Zhongshi, with the village of Bailuyuan in the plain of Guanzhong (Shaanxi, China) as the story context and narrating subject, describes the folk life of the two families Bai and Lu who live there for ages, such as their daily life, customs of marriage and funerals and religions....
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A Corpus-based Study on the English Translation of Modal Verbs in Chinese Legislative Texts
Huiqian Fan
From the perspective of speech act theory, based on the self-constructed composite corpora, this paper analyzes the English translation of modal verbs commonly used in Chinese legislative texts. The results show that: the top three modal verbs used in legislative texts of Mainland China are “yingdang...
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Study on the Structure and Evolution of the Buddhism-related Idioms from the Perspective of Rhythm
Ting Hu
Chinese idioms are affected by many factors in the formation process. This article analyzes the structure and evolution of Buddhist idioms from the perspective of prosody, and demonstrates the strong effect of prosody on Chinese word formation. First, this article will use the theory of prosody to analyze...
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Research on Zheng Zhenduo’s Translation Thoughts from the Perspective of Eco-translatology
Fan Yang
Zheng Zhenduo was a prominent translator, writer and archaeologist in the May Fourth New Literature Movement. He made great achievements in the study of translation and translation practice during the 1920s. As a cross-disciplinary theory, Eco-translatology provides a new perspective for the study of...
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Study on the Correlation Between the Scores of Oral English and Business English Interpreting Based on SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) Analysis
Xin Wei
This paper selects 42 junior students in the same class of business English major pursuing the four-year undergraduate program as the research subjects, and studies the correlation between the scores they achieved in the course of oral English and business English interpreting. This paper uses SPSS23.0...
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Development of Linguistic Competence and Critical Thinking Skills via English Public Speaking Contest
A Case Study
Yumei Zou, P. K. Veloo
This qualitative study was aimed at understanding the areas of participants’ linguistic and critical thinking development that facilitated students’ achievements in “FLTRP (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press) Cup” English public speaking (EPS) contest. A sample of five college students who...
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Semantic Interaction Between Chinese and Japanese Chinese Character Vocabulary
Examples of Chinese Japanese-originated Return Words Related to Religion
Zhuqin Deng
In modern Japan, when learning from the West, it chose a large number of Chinese classical words to translate Western terminology. These Chinese character words flowed back to China in large quantities at the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and entered the modern Chinese vocabulary...
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A Study on the Lexical Features and Value of Thai Nursery Rhymes
Zhaoyang Duan, Wenjin Xu
As an important literary form, nursery rhymes play an important guiding and exemplary role in children’s education and can help to teach children some common sense and cultivate their good habits. All countries in the world have their own unique nursery rhymes. This paper classifies nursery rhymes about...
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Study on the Translation of Some New Terms in “General Provisions of Civil Law” Based on Corpus
Xueling Feng
In “General Provisions of Civil Law” of the People’s Republic of China, there are some important new terms such as “gongxuliangsu” (公序良俗, public policy and ethics), “bingchichengshi, keshouchengnuo” (秉持诚实，恪守承诺, uphold honesty and honor commitment) and “shanyixiangduiren” (善意相对人, the good-faith third...
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Study on Interpretation and Translation of The Young Prodigy in The China Review
Xin Hu
Based on the translation of The Young Prodigy published by The China Review, this paper explores the translation strategies of the chapters’ headings, plot contents and poetics, and presents the panorama of the translation of The Young Prodigy in the historical context of Chinese knowledge western spreading....