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Hudson, Richard

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“…But it always refers to some characteristics shared by a community, especially those which might distinguish it from other communities (Hudson, 2007).…”

Section: Culture and Culture Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taking a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example

Di-min¹

2011

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Studies on aphasia of Chinese culture in college English teaching have been focused for a long time. Yet little attention has been paid to the senior high school English teaching concerning this problem. As a matter of fact, senior high school English teaching plays an essential role in English learning. In order to find out whether aphasia of Chinese culture exists in this stage and dig out the factors, the author has carried out a survey with quantitative and qualitative methods in the senior high school students of Grade one and teachers of a key middle school in Kunming. The survey reveals that this phenomenon does exist in senior high school English teaching and the extent is rather severe. The main reasons are lack of introduction on Chinese culture in English class, inadequacy of Chinese culture in textbooks and no emphasis on Chinese culture in English test. According to the explored reasons, the author proposes the corresponding suggestive solutions to the problem. They are: to reform the culture teaching, to add more Chinese culture in textbooks and to revise NMET (National Matriculation English Test).

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“…But it always refers to some characteristics shared by a community, especially those which might distinguish it from other communities (Hudson, 2007).…”

Section: Culture and Culture Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taking a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example

Di-min¹

2011

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“…Under this general term, different forms of bilingual behaviors are subsumed. Sometimes switching occurs between the turns of different speakers in the conversation, sometimes between utterances within a single turn, and sometimes even within a single utterance (Hudson, 1980). However, in today"s technological era, the question arises if code-switching on the internet occurs in the same way as face-to-face communication.…”

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Identifying the Functions of Code Switching in a Computer Mediated Online Communication

Dawoud¹,

Shah²

2017

JSEL

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This study aims to explore the functions of code switching of English-Arabic speakers in a computer-based online communication. Its goal is to understand whether code switching on the internet has the same functions as face-to-face interaction in real time situation. In addition, it aims to highlight the different conversational characteristics of code switching in a virtual environment, such as online chat. Adopting a Conversational Analysis (CA) approach, the data were collected from online Paltalk chatrooms, specifically "BnatKSA". The six participants, three males and three females were proficient in English and Arabic languages. Using bidirectional English-Arabic code switching, the six participants frequently chatted online for two hours a day over a period of one month. The findings indicate a wide range of functions of code switching on the internet. Some of these functions are unique and context specific, which can be considered a contribution to the body of knowledge. The findings suggest that the range of code switching functions online is broader and more meaningful than face-to-face communication in real time situation.

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“…In his discussion on language and thought, Hudson (1996) states that culture is a socially acquired knowledge. This knowledge is reflected in the language that we use because most of language is contained within culture.…”

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Culture and Conceptualisation of Scientific Terms: An Analysis of the Concepts "Weight" and "Mass" in Arabic and French

Lahlou¹,

Rahim²

2016

KAJH

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Abstract. Studies on difficulties in understanding scientific terms have shown that the problem is more serious among non-Western learners. The main reasons for this are the learners' pre-existing knowledge of scientific terms, their native language incommensurability with Western languages, and the polysemy of the words used to denote scientific concepts. The current study is an analysis of the conceptualisation of scientific concepts in two culturally different languages, i.e. Arabic and French, which represent a non-Western language and a Western language respectively. Physics concepts which are considered as some of the most challenging concepts for non-Western languages Aranador 2005) were selected for analysis. To this end, the terms that refer to two physics concepts, "weight" and "mass" in Arabic ‫ن‬ ‫زْ‬ َ ‫و‬ (wazn) and ‫ة‬ َ ‫ل‬ ْ ‫ت‬ ُ ‫ك‬ (kutla) and inFrench poids and masse were semantically analysed. The analysis of the concepts in both languages is informed by the prototype theory by Rosch (1973;1975), idealised cognitive models (ICMs) by Lakoff (1987), and conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy by Lakoff and Johnson (2003). The data for analysis were retrieved from two comparable Arabic and French corpora, namely the ArabiCorpus and the Concordancier-Corpus Français. The results suggest that there are both similarities and differences between the Arabic and French concepts in terms of meanings, prototypes, and metaphorical as well as metonymic semantic extensions. These findings support the argument that the human conceptual system is related to our environmental and cultural experiences and also importantly, validate previous claims on the need for 20Hicham Lahlou and Hajar Abdul Rahim educators to be cognizant of the culturally relevant meanings of scientific words found in everyday language that may impede learners' understanding of scientific concepts.

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Sociolinguistics

Cited by 326 publications

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Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taking a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example

Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taking a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example

Identifying the Functions of Code Switching in a Computer Mediated Online Communication

Culture and Conceptualisation of Scientific Terms: An Analysis of the Concepts "Weight" and "Mass" in Arabic and French

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