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Download full textZoghbor, Wafa Shahada – English Language Teaching, 2016
Teachers' understanding of the process of speech perception could inform practice in listening classrooms. Catford (1950) developed a model for speech perception taking into account the influence of the acoustic features of the linguistic forms used by the speaker, whereby the listener "identifies" and "interprets" these…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Auditory Perception, Speech
Yang, Hongyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
Discourse coherence is a common phenomenon in linguistic studies, and plays an important role in discourse analysis. As a common and extremely important type of language phenomena, discourse coherence has drawn more and more scholars' attention, but they emphasis on partial discourse coherence, paying a little attention to holistic coherence. The…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse, Guidelines, Stereotypes
Qiu, Jin – English Language Teaching, 2013
The most distinctive feature of conundrum is the deliberate misinterpretation in the course of its application. The present paper attempts a new cognitive approach to the understanding of conundrums. Based on psychological laws of mankind, the conundrum begins with the questioner's leaving a certain linguistic item on purpose, which will…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Questioning Techniques, Misconceptions
Wang, Jianjun; Sunihan – English Language Teaching, 2014
Either in the field of theoretical research of translation, or in the translation practice, there is a long dispute over the problem of translatability and untranslatability with a great number of scholars on both sides. An analysis will be made in this paper to focus on the problem of untranslatability between English and Chinese from…
Descriptors: Translation, Chinese, English, Intercultural Communication
Guan, Jialing – English Language Teaching, 2009
Metonymy is an important means for people to know the world and enrich the language; and it is a way of thinking used widely in people's daily life. This paper illustrates firstly the cognitive nature of metonymy in terms of its definition, classification and contiguity notion. Based on this, the author then studies the meaning extension and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Shen, Yanxia – English Language Teaching, 2008
Considering the difficulties in understanding the global meaning of texts, this paper intends to give some suggestions on how to help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensive reading classroom within the framework of schema theory. The purpose of this paper is expressed in three ways. The first is to give a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Schemata (Cognition), Reading Instruction, Language Processing
