The Joy Luck Club focuses on Chinese immigrant families in the U.S.through intricate descriptions of mother-daughter relations.The words of“joy”and“luck”all mean good wishes and happiness,the same as in English.On...
From the perspective of cultural transformation and exchange,this paper analyzes the different interpretations of Hua Mulan,a female hero,by comparing the two versions of the film of Hua Mulan in the United States in ...
Supported by the Program of Humanities and Social Science of Colleges and Universities of Henan Province(Cultivation of Middle School Students’English Core Competencies from American 5C Standards 2021-ZDJH-0482);the Research and Practice Program of Teaching and Learning in Zhoukou Normal University(JF2021016).
As a guideline and beacon of the reform of foreign language education,American 5C standards are summarized as five words starting with C:Communication,Cultures,Connections,Comparisons,and Communities.The English core ...
This work was supported by a grant from“Teaching Method Research Program of Central University of Finance and Economics”.The project is entitled“Research on Language and Intercultural Critical Thinking Integrated Approach(LICTIA)in American Literature”(JFY201917).
This paper discusses the effective application of Language and Intercultural Critical Thinking Integrated Approach(LICTIA)in American literature class,which aims to enforce aesthetic experience and values education in...
The language of English is manly classified into British English and American English.Britain is the birthplace of the language,and English has been bred and evolved significantly in this land.After a hundred years of...
Arthur Miller is a distinguished modern playwright who pays lots of attention to social issues. As one of his masterpieces, Death of a Salesman depicts that the protagonist fails to achieve his American dream and fina...
The paper is based on the research of Greet Hofstede's Model of Cultural Dimensions and Edward. T. Hall's Context Culture Theory. According to their theories, the author focuses on four dimensions (context culture,...
Pocahontas is an exquisitely made animation movie presented by Walt Disney in 1995. Since it was shown, the cartoon has received mixed reviews. Quite a few scholars have conducted postcolonial readings, and believe th...
In college-level academic writings, the appropriate use of hedges is an important skill to mark a writer's stances pragmatically. This skill is not easy for English as Foreign Language (EFL) students to acquire, es...
Mammies depicted in Chinese and American literary works bear different characteristics due to different social and cultural backgrounds. Mammy figures in American literary works reflect the caste system based on racia...