英语军语的语言特征

军语即军事术语 ,它是表述军事概念的词语 ,是英语军事语言中的重要组成部分 .英语军语在使用上具有统一性、简明性和不可替代性 ;在意义上具有单义性、准确性和特义性 ;在形式上多使用复合词、缩略语和简明口语     

大学公共英语教师如何应对教学改革——一项基于高职院校英语教学改革的研究

随着“工学结合”理念在高等教育中的深入,新一轮的英语教学改革蓄势待发。高职院校已走在了改革的前沿,新的《高等职业教育英语课程教学要求》已于2009年试行,在教学内容、教学方法等方面对教师有了更高的要求。通过研究高职院校外语教师如何适应新一轮的教学改革,前瞻了本科院校新一轮的公共英语教学改革之路,提出大学公共英语教师主动作为,调整自己,适应教学改革的要求。     

形成性评价在大学英语教学中的应用

大学英语教学评价研究是大学英语教学改革的内在需要。随着大学英语教学改革的进行,注重知识和运用能力培养的形成性评价在英语教学中受到了越来越多的关注。形成性评价的主要目的是支持高质量的学习,因此,形成性评价应该成为最重要的教学评价模式。形成性评价有助于教员了解学员的学习进展,以便不断调整教学,满足学员的需求,提高教学质量。     

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。     

Bringing Balancing Back In: Britain's Targeted Balancing, 1936–1939

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that Neville Chamberlain rejected the British tradition of balance of power in the 1930s. In contrast to balance of power and balance of threat theories, states do not balance against aggregate or net shifts in power. Instead, leaders define threats based on particular elements of a foreign state's power. The import is that different components of power of a foreign state are more or less threatening and aggregate shifts in power alone may not provoke counterbalancing behavior. In the 1930s, Britain balanced against the most threatening components of power: the German Luftwaffe and the threat of a knock-out air assault against the homeland, Japan's Imperial Navy and its threat to Britain's commercial trade routes and the Dominions in East Asia, and the Italian Navy and the threat to Britain's line of communication through the Mediterranean Sea to India and Asia. Given Britain's difficult financial circumstances, all other components of power, such as the army and the land components of power of Germany, Japan, and Italy were ranked as secondary in terms of its rearmament priorities. Thus, London was able to narrow the gap with Berlin in specific components of power of strategic importance such as aircraft production or to exceed Germany in other areas such as the Royal Navy and its battlefleet.     

Allies at War: British and US Army Command Culture in the Italian Campaign, 1943–1944

This article compares the philosophy and practice of command in the British and US Armies during the Italian Campaign of 1943–44. It assesses pre-war influences on the command approach adopted by each army, and shows how refinements derived from wartime experience enabled British and American commanders to successfully utilise mission command principles to outfight the German Army in the latter years of World War II. This examination directly challenges the historical consensus that Allied commanders were disadvantaged by an inability to exploit the advantages of mission command, and that the German Army retained superior command practices, despite its other failings, throughout the fighting between 1939 and 1945. These conclusions hold additional relevance to modern military organisations which have emphasised mission command as the optimal solution to effective command in battle since the 1980s, but from an inaccurate understanding of German, British and American command traditions and experience that persists to this day.     

分层教学法在消防院校英语教学中的运用——以昆明消防指挥学校为例

由于生源的特殊性,消防院校学员英语水平差异明显,给英语教学带来了很大挑战.为提升英语教学的有效性及实用性,以适应消防部队建设发展对优秀消防指挥人才的需求,结合学员的实际情况,对英语课程进行了分层教学模式改革.基于英语课程分层教学模式改革的实践经验,对英语分层教学模式的实施,分层教学的有效性及存在的问题进行了探讨.     

‘Brown Bess’ vs ‘Miss Minie’

Following the publication of the article ‘Trusty Bess’: the Definitive Origins and History of the term 'Brown Bess', the author was made aware of an intriguing illustration that perfectly captures the meaning of that famous nickname. This short note details this archival document and sheds light on both its place in the lore of ‘Brown Bess’ and its wide historical context in terms of the Victorian attitudes to military small arms development.