The term "culture" originates from "The Book of Changes". Western culture is derived the Latin word "Culture," originally referring to practices such as farming, dwelling, and training, among others. British cultural scholar E. Tylor defined in "Primitive Culture" a complex group abilities habits acquired by any member that includes knowledge, beliefs, morals, customs. In context teaching Chine...

this paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the tesol. postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the tesol theoretically in some ways. the elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

Sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools have been developed over the last few decades for many languages. For example, the ChaSen Morphological Analyzer and the KNP Parser for Japanese; the SWATH Segmenter for Thai; and CRL-New Mexico’s Segmenter for Chinese are being widely used by NLP researchers. Several copyright-free machine readable dictionaries (MRD) are also available now,...

This study takes teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL) into a gaming environment. Students fundamentally engaged in a mythological context in a 3D online virtual space called Quest Atlantis. Such an environment was in sharp contrast with how English is taught in a typical Chinese classroom in Mainland China. Preliminary findings reveal that co-questing is promising for impro...

Teaching Chinese as a foreign language is very important part of teaching language, and morphemes account for large proportion characters. In this paper, questionnaire survey on the cognition was conducted each grade students in School International Cultural Education Heilongjiang University. Through survey, it concluded that international culture circle non-Chinese affect at primary stage, stu...

the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

In this paper, I shall discuss issues regarding globalization and culture in the context of English language teaching (ELT), with a particular focus on Chinese ELT materials in secondary schools in China. Globalization has a far-reaching impact on the foreign language education industry in China. Chinese learners of English view globalization positively as opportunities for geographical and soc...