Abstracts of Major Papers in This Issue

A Study on the Relationship between Physical Educational Majors English Classroom Anxiety and English Classroom Willingness to Communicate， by SHI Yu & FAN Weiwei， p.4

This empirical study aims to explore the relationship between English classroom anxiety and English classroom willingness to communicate by using questionnaires and interviews with 218 college physical educational majors. It is found that the physical educational majors have experienced the high level classroom anxiety and low to medium level willingness to communicate. Moreover， students anxieties are negatively correlated with their willingness to communicate. In addition， the regression analysis found that communication apprehension and classroom frights restrain the willingness to communicate. Research findings of the study demonstrate that the English teachers should pay close attention to physical educational majors English anxiety and help them to alleviate the impeding anxieties to improve their English confidence as well as develop their English willingness to communicate.

Practice and Reflection on the Overall Assessment Mode of Students Achievement—A Case Study of the Course “A Brief Introduction to British and American Culture” for Non-English Majors， by RUAN Xiaoqin， p.9

With the methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis， this paper reflects on the construction and practice of the Overall Assessment Mode on students achievement in the course of “A Brief Introduction to British and American Culture” in the past year. It discovers that the new assessment mode has enriched the means and criteria to evaluate students performance， promoted teachers to update their teaching philosophy and improved their teaching methods. Meanwhile， it has helped students to renew their learning views and ways and thus has won their recognition. However， the proportion of Formative Assessment should be increased， with its reliability and validity to be ensured in the future. Moreover， students self-assessment must be strengthened to make them play fully their role as the evaluation main body.

Genre Analysis of the Method Section of the Empirical Study on College English Reading Ability， by LI Chuanyi， p.20

This paper conducted a genre analysis of the method sections of 62 empirical documents on college English reading ability retrieved from 10 CSSCI journals in 2004～2013. The results show that these documents have a comparatively consistent structure with 5 basic moves while with 4 selective moves or steps. We hope this paper can be insightful for the college English learners who are interested in the empirical study of college English reading ability and can follow the academic writing rules concerning the method sections of empirical study.

Learners Personal Factors and Online Peer Review Grouping， by LIU Xiaojing， p.26

Online peer review has been a hot topic in todays college English writing teaching. Grouping is one of the most important factors that affect peer review result. Various personal factors may lead to different performance in a peer review， which may affect other team members. This paper is based on a statistical analysis of 5 months peer review work of 72 students in the most used way of peer review in China—anonymous and asynchronous peer review. The purpose is to investigate how three personal factors， namely English level， writing motivation and cognitive styles， affect the learners performance in peer review in order to provide some foundation for scientific grouping in the future. The result shows that the three factors do have different influence on provided comments， types of comments and correction rate， therefore the paper argues that personal factors must be considered in peer review grouping for better peer review result.

On Meta-cognitive Questioning in English Teaching and Learning， by ZHANG Lili， p.32

The addition of meta-cognitive content in English classroom questioning has a strong significance not only for the cultivation of students language thinking capacities， but also for the improvement of their English skills. Taking the important influence of meta-cognitive questioning in English teaching and learning as the starting point， this paper makes an elaboration on how to conduct questioning on metacognitive knowledge， meta-cognitive acquisition and meta-cognitive monitoring in English teaching and learning. It also mentions the precautions of meta-cognitive questioning.

A Brief Discussion on the Relationship between English Public Speaking and Debating Curriculum and the Improvement of Comprehensive Ability of English Majors， by SU Shanshan， p.50

With the development of the society and the enlargement of international communication， the basic English communicative competence is no longer efficient. Therefore， improving the comprehensive ability has become an inevitable trend for English majors. This article elaborates from the following aspects： the improvement of language competence， the improvement of intercultural communication competence， and the improvement of critical thinking. The article is aimed to prove that English Public Speaking and Debating Curriculum is beneficial for students comprehensive competence.

An Analysis of Present Situation and Teachers Demands of Academic Research in Institutions of Adult Higher Learning， by LU Lanfeng， p.122

Academic research is of great necessity and importance for college teachers. However， in Chinese institutions of adult higher learning， it is quite common that teachers pay much less attention to academic research than to teaching， which turns academic research into their traditional weakness. To probe into this issue， this paper analyzes teachers attitudes， difficulties and demands by using questionnaires and faceto-face interviews. Then it carries out a profound exploration of bottleneck factors in teachers academic research and academic research demands from two perspectives： what can the institutions of adult higher learning do and what can the teachers do. Finally， the paper puts forward some practical suggestions.

A Cognitive Analysis of the Genitive Construction in English， by MA Yongtian， p.133

Based on the construal theory of cognitive linguistics， this article probes into the genitive construction in English， finding that the reason for the linguistic construction comes from the fact that the English speakers， when using the genitive noun to modify the head noun， set a certain scope for the head noun， have some qualia roles of the head noun activated， take either active or passive perspectives and use comparatively low specifity occasionally.

A Review of the Study of Emotion Words in L2， by WAN Fang， p.138

Emotion words have characteristics which differentiate them from both concrete and abstract words. Because of its uniqueness in the representation in mental lexicon， emotion words have been a hot topic in the second language research. However in the field of second language acquisition， L2 emotion words have not been fully explored in many aspects. This paper intends to provide a literature report on the definition， characteristics， factors influencing the conception of L2 emotion words and major experimental methods. In China， the insights into L2 emotion words mostly remain at a descriptive level. There is a severe lack of more in-depth research into emotion words as part of bilingual mental lexicon. In-depth research into the acquisition of emotion words for EFL learner in China is inadequate. This paper is designed to contribute to further studies of emotion words by offering a systematic review of studies on emotion words.

Brief Introduction of Positive Discourse Analysis， by HUANG Juan， p.143

Discourse analysis has a history of more than 60 years. Now it develops from the direction of criticism to positive analysis. To create a better future， positive discourse analysis guides the readers with positive thoughts and faces the lofty goal of peaceful linguistics. The essay briefly introduces positive discourse analysis from three aspects： positive discourse analysis research at home and abroad； theoretical pillars of positive discourse analysis； material selection and analysis methods.

Constructing Parallel Corpuses towards Translation Textbook Compilation， by WU Jian， p.150

A parallel corpus with systematically-tagged stylistic features is of great assistance to the teaching of translation of various genres， as it not provides abundant real-life solutions for trainees of translation， but also constitutes a reliable source for compliers of translation textbooks.

C-E Translation： A Perspective of English Idiom Variations， by WANG Ping & GUO Jun， p.154

The variations of idioms are products of motivated creative processing of prototypical idioms， which can be roughly divided into concentric and eccentric variations. Chinese-English translation can flexibly and ingeniously avail itself of different varieties of English idiom variations， so as to attain some specific effect in rhetoric and brevity and ingenuity in language.

The Questioning of Different Versions of Body Terms in A Dream of Red Mansions from the Perspective of the Theory of Frame Semantics and the Five Elements Theory， by LIU Zhicheng & ZHAO Xuede， p.165

Translation is not only the communication between two languages， but also the communication between two cultures. How to effectively avoid the semantic loss and semantic mistranslation of the source language to realize the most natural semantic and pragmatic equivalent is a very important topic in the process of translation. This paper questioned the different versions of translation of body terms in the Chinese famous book A Dream of Red Mansions by using the theory of frame semantics， the five elements theory and the theory of metaphor and metonymy. In addition， this paper has put forward some solutions to improve translation， hoping to arouse the interest and further studies of other scholars.

Dazong Lake Scenic Signs Translation Strategies from the Perspective of Cultural Diffusion， by SUN Liqing & MA Yonghong & ZHANG Hui， p.170

Tourism scenic signs translation is charged with not only promoting the local tourism development and stimulating local economic growth but also spreading the local cultural information. Through the study of the translation of Dazong Lake Scenic signs which contains the local cultural information and the corresponding translation strategies， it can attract more foreign tourists and promote the local tourism development.

On the Cross-Cultural Translation Strategies of Cognitive Metaphor， by LI Na， p.176

Metaphor is a linguistic phenomenon which is substantially the process for human beings to form their thinking mode and cognitive approach towards the objective world. Metaphor is closely related to different cultures in both eastern and western background. Translation refers to not only the transfer between different languages， but more to transfer between different cultures. As a result， when translating the cognitive metaphor from a cross-cultural perspective， translators should analyze the cultural connotation of cognitive metaphor and adopt appropriate translation strategies to realize the accurate expression of source languages textual and cultural information.

The Beauty of Rhythm in the Short Stories—Take Early Autumn as an Example， by LI Yan & LIU Xiaokang， p.190

Short story is one of the literature forms， whose artistic beauty is mostly realized by rhythm. Rhythm， which embodies the unification of form and content， is the organization form of the text， as well as the manifestation of the content. Early Autumn by Langston Hughes has distinct linguistic rhythm and text rhythm， which represent the unique artistic beauty of the short stories.