Screening appropriate teaching materials Closings from textbooks and television soap operas

Grant, Lynn; Starks, Donna

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“…Secondly, CA is used to highlight lexical and grammatical features, reflecting everyday realities. Grant and Starks (2001), for instance, have argued that the authenticity of TV fiction has been validated, consistent with the literature on conversation analysis. Al-Surmi (2012) compares the result of lexical and grammatical feature study to unscripted American conversation and finds that TV fiction reflects every day, naturally-occurring talk.…”

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Followership: Boosting Power and Position in Popular TV Fiction

2015

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Research by Andaya (1999) has shown that the "expansion of authority" in Southeast Asia is jostled through culture. In Malay archipelago, such authority and legitimacy are manifested in the regulation of "dress, language, and custom," reinforcing powerful gains emanating from wide cultural control. Following this premise, we seek to provide insights that work in tandem with how culture evolves to signify one"s power and position through conversational exchanges palpable in popular TV fiction. Specifically, in this paper, we argue that reasons related to culture including religion and communal beliefs are employed by the "dominant knower" to prevail in TV fiction"s narrative exchanges. Based on Conversation Analysis (CA) of Julia and On Dhia, we show that "dominant knowers" triumph using Malay adat (customs), as a reasoning firstly to justify the behavior of everyday discourse (friendships, relationships, and parenthood) and secondly to explicate one"s choices in instituting the roles of women and men in the Malay world. Through such analysis, it is also found that any arguments through logic are denied and eliminated. Given these findings, this study demonstrates whether followers do or do not possess agency and whether followership does or does not dwell on loyalty to friendship and kinship over the course of navigating their private and public lives. By focusing on the narrative exchanges, we also contend that although TV fiction evokes issues that are decidedly modern and liberal in response to forces of globalization, Malay adat is still powerful for boosting power and authority in everyday Malay discourse.

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Followership: Boosting Power and Position in Popular TV Fiction

2015

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“…For example, at the beginning of each class, you can ask questions, to guide students to think, let the students start to listen to the question, which can enhance the purpose of students to attend lectures, to facilitate their understanding of the content of the class [24]. In the classroom teaching process, teachers can use more comprehensive case teaching task or project teaching, and situational simulation, to break the consistent model of "No communication in class", encourage students to participate in discussions with English, increase classroom interaction, arouses the enthusiasm of learning bilingual classes, with a large number of interactive discussion it is easier to improve students' English listening and speaking ability.…”

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“…Teaching material is the most important carrier of teaching, to a certain extent the breadth and depth of influence teaching, bilingual education first selects the right materials [24]. Course content highly professional, is difficult in itself, if it is integrated into bilingual teaching, students will be more difficult to be understood, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect, so teaching materials in bilingual teaching of specialized courses is particularly important.…”

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Practice and Discussion on Bilingual Education of Specialized Course-MEMS: A Jiangsu University Case

Ge¹,

Zhang²,

Xie³

et al. 2018

IJIET

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Abstract-The bilingual teaching on specialized course has become a trend in most countries and regions in the world with the internationalization of higher education. Especially for China, the bilingual teaching is the inevitable trend of the education internationalization for Chinese universities by the increasing number of exchange students and foreign students in China. It is necessary for teaching reform and personal training in universities. At present, the bilingual teaching of specialized courses is the key and difficult point in the teaching reform of higher education. Some common problems in bilingual teaching of professional courses in Chinese universities and colleges have been analyzed, and some benefit measures are put forward in order to improve the bilingual teaching quality in this paper.Index Terms-Bilingual teaching, specialized courses, reform, international education. I. INTRODUCTIONAt present, the educational exchanges between the countries in the world are becoming more and more frequent with the rapid development of economic globalization [1]- [4]. Internationalization is the tendency for higher education, and the bilingual teaching is a prerequisite. Bilingual teaching has become an important pathway to adjust to internationalization for cultivating high-quality personnel, while bilingual teaching model an important means to achieve the teaching goal and process controlling [5]. In order to cultivate the talents with high professional quality and international perspective and the ability to communicate with foreign language, China Ministry of education are put forward that the Chinese undergraduate education should create conditions, and actively promote the use of English and other foreign language courses and professional courses teaching, and bilingual teaching evaluation index as an important course in undergraduate teaching assessment according to the requirements of modern education, the world and the future. Personnel training mode and teaching methods and methods have undergone major changes; bilingual teaching [1]- [10] has gradually become an important part of our higher education in Jiangsu University. As a teacher of bilingual course, the author puts forward some solutions to the Manuscript received February 20, 2017; revised May 2, 2017. This work was supported by the teaching reform program 'Research and Practice on the new mode of cultivating innovative talents of mechanical and electrical specialty' of Jiangsu University (No. 2013JGYB025 & No. 2013JGYB020).Daohan Ge and Liqiang Zhang are with the Nano Science Technology, Jiangsu University Zhenjiang, China (e-mail: gedaohan@mail.ujs.edu.cn, zhanglq4158@ujs.edu.cn).Fangwei Xie is with Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu university, Zhenjiang, China (e-mail: xiefangwei@ujs.edu.cn).Pengfei Qian is with Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University Zhenjiang, China (e-mail: pengfeiqian@ujs.edu.cn).problems in the practice of bilingual teaching. Compared with the traditional mechanical processing technology, MEMS (micro...

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“…Much research has focused on the contrastive analysis of interactions found in the textbooks and their realization in spontaneous or prefabricated dialogues (for example, soap operas). Some studies, Grant and Starks (2001) and Bardovi-Harlig, Hartford, Mahan-Taylor, Morgan and Reynolds (1991), have investigated conversational closings and other discourse features (Gilmore, 2004). In Gilmore's study, interactions from seven textbooks were chosen and contrasted with comparable authentic interactions.…”

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Thank you for a lovely day! Contrastive Thanking in Textbooks for Teaching English and Spanish as Foreign Languages

Pablos-Ortega

2015

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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Thanking, as other speech acts such as apologizing or requesting, can be performed in numerous contexts and, for their analysis, many crucial variables must be taken into consideration (eg. social distance, gender, age, etc.), which often are difficult to control. Besides these variables, speech acts are carried out in different situations, taking into account the culture in which they are performed. For example, thanking might be performed after alighting a bus in the UK, the USA or Australia, but this might not necessarily happen in Spain. The aim of the study on which this paper is based, in to explore thanking contrastively in British English and in Peninsular Spanish from a pragmatic viewpoint, by looking at specific independent variables: the context and situation in which this speech act is performed, the relationship between the interlocutors who perform it, which includes social power and distance, and the reason for expressing gratitude. For the purpose of this investigation, a corpus of 128 textbooks (64 for each language) for the learning and teaching of Spanish and English as foreign languages was used. It is important to note that, although these corpora are built on prefabricated dialogues and these can be regarded as abstractions of reality, the communicative situations found in the textbooks are aimed at depicting exchanges and linguistic patterns representing what naturally occurs in real conversations in both cultures.

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Screening appropriate teaching materials Closings from textbooks and television soap operas

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Followership: Boosting Power and Position in Popular TV Fiction

Followership: Boosting Power and Position in Popular TV Fiction

Practice and Discussion on Bilingual Education of Specialized Course-MEMS: A Jiangsu University Case

Thank you for a lovely day! Contrastive Thanking in Textbooks for Teaching English and Spanish as Foreign Languages

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