As the internet and education technologies boom, second language teaching has been witnessing profound changes. The second language instruction video is one of the changes mentioned. This paper aims to construct a framework to study the instruction videos based on the Visual Grammar Theory of Social Semiotics and Power Distance theory and then applies this framework to the analysis of prize-winning instruction videos in China, so as to find out the features in narration, representational meaning...

Language Education 

Outcome-Based Education approach has attracted more attention for its concern on the needs of the society for talents and its emphasis on the curriculum construction from learning outcome. This paper researches on a four-step model in College English blended teaching process including defining, realizing, assessing, and using based on outcome-based education approach. With this closed-loop system, it adopts the outcome-oriented teaching model to construct a college English blended curriculum sys...

Language Education 

Based on Flipped class and developed as a unity of both Blended Class and PAD Class (Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion), FPAD pedagogy is a new teaching model applied in College English for research and exploration. It is a procedure for English teachers to improve teaching methods, plan reasonable teaching processes and rebuild teaching system. Based on PAD class, and implementing both the flipped classroom and blended learning, FPAD pedagogy rationally arranges the learning activities onlin...

Language Education 

Language anxiety is one of the important emotional factors affecting learning effect, especially in listening activities. Listening anxiety is common among English learners and can affect their academic performance. Rational use of listening learning strategies can reduce the negative impact of anxiety on English learning. This paper conducts a qualitative research on the status and causes of non-English major postgraduates’ listening anxiety through interviews, and puts forward targeted counter...

Language Education 

English writing is an important means to measure the English learning level of learners. Among the five basic language skills of “listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation”, “writing” is the most important language output in language learning, which can reflect the learners’ comprehensive application ability of language. However, learners often make mistakes in their English compositions, which can largely reflect their level of writing. Based on the theory of error analysis, this st...

Language Education 

Course books are an important source of knowledge input in classroom teaching. Text difficulty is one of the key factors in choosing course books while text readability serves as an important indicator to measure the text difficulty. However, there have been few studies on text readability of college English course books in the past. This survey uses the WE Research platform and adopts Flesch Reading Ease and other readability formulas as the detection tools to study the text readability develop...

Language Education 

Internet new era brings both opportunities and new requirements for College English Teaching in China. According to the latest college English Teaching Guide (2020 Edition), much importance should be attached to cultivating students’ English application ability and enhancing their cross-cultural communication ability. In order to achieve this goal, the cultivation of foreign language metaphor ability is indispensable. Based on the conceptual metaphor theory and the definition of metaphorical co...

Language Education 

This study investigated the intercultural sensitivity of 220 students who majored in foreign languages by using intercultural sensitivity scale (ISS) developed by Chen Guoming and Starosta (2000). Results showed that the intercultural sensitivity of foreign language majors is above average. In the five dimensions, respect for cultural differences is the strongest, interaction engagement is the second, followed by interaction attentiveness and interaction enjoyment, and interaction confidence is ...

Language Education 

Humanistic teaching method can promote the cognitive development of students, but more importantly, it can develop emotional education for students. This article will briefly introduce the basic rationales and principles of the humanistic teaching method, teaching methods based on humanism and teaching activities that embody humanistic ideas, so as to explore the role of students’ emotional factors in promoting cognitive development.

Language Education 

In recent years, global economic integration has a great impact on college students’ thinking. Many college students are lack of ideals and beliefs and their moral consciousness is very weak and ideological quality is not high. Therefore, ideological and political education should be carried out in college English teaching. We need to make scientific and reasonable teaching program. It will help to improve the overall quality of college English teaching and the ideological quality of college stu...

Language Education  Educational Reform