Ⅰ.Introduction IELTS,a test serves as a standard of speakers’ English level.Recently,many universities in China have set academic IELTS course to support students’English learning.IELTS writing examines students’ ...
1.Background Chinese culture and the culture of English native speaking countries are highly different.When these two cultures are juxtaposed,miscommunication and misunderstanding occur.In the era of globalization and...
Chinese is beautiful.Today,more people are attracted by this language and are determined to learn this language,which is one of the hardest languages in the world as well.More and more non-native Chinese speakers join...
English has been widely used throughout the world for trade,transport,industry,sport,diplomacy and technology.As a result,there is a belief that English as a Lingua Franca brings drawbacks too,such as threatening the ...
This study aims to explore the added outcome of the speaking course of native English-speaking teachers perceived by Chinese EFL students.The data was collected from 100 university students via a questionnaire.The add...
This paper reports the visualization of EFL speakers’ (Chinese student) definition spoken output in English BP debate. This study aims to find the gap between what exactly EFL speakers said and what they thought they...
The prevalence of intercultural communication across the globe gives rise to the emergence of the notion of ‘World Englishes’. In order to shape a mutual understanding between people from different cultural backgrou...
The alternation of [l] and [n] is one of the phonological features that distinguish Sichuan English speakers from other Mandarin English speaking groups. This study aims to explore whether the alternation is random, o...
The Chinese word suibian ([随便], ‘whatever’) as a discourse marker canonically shows speakers’ nonchalance or lack of concern regarding choice-making or decision-making.Nevertheless, suibian is also used, quite co...