英语专业视听说教学的不足之处及改进策略

视听说课程是英语专业的技能课程之一。它要求较高的教学设备才能实现其教学目的。本文结合自身教学实践,分析了传统视听说教学的缺憾,提出了改进教学的策略。     

基于现代信息技术的大学英语教学改革探索与实践

大学英语教学改革基于改变传统的以教为中心、向以学为中心、注重培养学生语言综合运用能力的教学模式,创造出一种崭新的教育理念和教学环境,真正意义上实现英语教学的实用性。作为试点院校之一,我们通过整合多媒体、构建大学英语多元化教学平台,探索并实践了新的教学模式,开展了创新性和实效性的教学工作。     

大学英语教学中翻译技巧的训练

分析了大学英语教学中忽视翻译技巧训练的问题,从语言心理学的角度,论述了翻译理论的实质和翻译技巧训练的重要性;最后讨论了教学中如何安排翻译技巧训练     

多媒体网络辅助英语教学模式中教师的作用

随着信息技术的迅猛发展,英语教学改革出现了新的契机。多媒体和网络以其形象化的表达方式,真实的语言环境,建构了开放的教学空间,优化了外语教学环境。这必然会引起外语教学从教材、教学方法、教学手段到整个教学过程的重大变革,大学英语教学模式也将随之发生深刻变化。如何适应这一变化,是教师应该重点考虑的问题。     

跨文化交际能力的培养与大学英语教学

由于国际交流的日益频繁,培养学生的综合语言运用能力,特别是跨文化交际能力,已经成为语言教学的最终目标。通过分析非英语专业学生跨文化交际能力的现状,提出了通过大学英语教学来培养学生跨文化交际能力的途径。     

Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War

ABSTRACT

In his seminal study of the changing nature of warfare between Agincourt and the Somme, military historian John Keegan proposed that future historians might consider combatants’ emotions in their assessments of the impact and nature of conflict. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of the history of emotions as an analytical approach, but rarely, if ever, is this directed toward the study of military history, far less the history of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies. This paper examines America’s civil war (1861–1865) as a case study of the ways in which an emotional history approach might illuminate not the physical experiences of but rather the immediate and longer-term reactions to counter-insurgency conflict through a focus on one specific individual, the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It proposes that Holmes, whilst not a man of the ranks, nevertheless can reveal the wider ramifications of civil war and its emotional impact, both individually and culturally. As a relatively limited internecine war, one not fought by professional armies but by volunteer forces, America’s civil war highlights the ways in which the soldier’s response points us toward the kind of emotional revolution that has, to date, mainly been located within the European nations.     

Turning gangsters into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan

ABSTRACT

The American way of war in Afghanistan presents a conundrum for proponents of 21st-century state-building projects. How can liberal peace proponents engage in efficient state building without sacrificing their ideals? The US learned that state-building allocates a degree of command and control to powerbrokers operating in the shadows to launder aid money, traffic illicit narcotics, and engage in extrajudicial punishments. These clients failed to represent the liberal values foreign patrons endorsed, because the latter not only offered resources without conditions but also rewarded bad behavior. This issue is examined by looking at the case of post-2001 northern Afghanistan, where powerful warlords should have held greater control over their paramilitary forces, limited predatory behavior, and built stronger relationships with the community. Instead, warlords-turned-statesmen expanded their material and social influence in the north, while holding onto the informal instruments of racketeering and patronage that overwhelmed Western ideals and shaped the predatory state present in Afghanistan today. Moreover, paramilitaries were influenced by material, social, and normative incentives that rewarded violent and predatory behavior and further eroded already weak community control mechanisms at the subdistrict level.     

The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger

ABSTRACT

Increasing attention paid to US casualties in far-flung places such as Tongo Tongo, Niger, and headlines claiming ‘secret wars’ have fueled discussion about American military’s involvement in Africa. Though the continent has been a part of the American way of war since the beginnings of the US – consider the early combat actions of US Marines in Tripoli –, current African conflicts are challenging our understanding of war and approaches to winning it. This article examines the ways America seeks to achieve its ends in Africa with a particular focus upon the last 10 years of US counter-terrorism and stability operations in Niger and the Sahel Region. The author proposes unifying American, Allied, and partner efforts through a strategy of Active Containment.