From Alkin to Program Evaluation——some thoughts on Alkin's Evaluation Essentials

A clear picture could be finished from Alkin＇s（2011） book that attention should be paid to the understanding of and perspectives on program evaluation.To start with,one can have a better understanding of the concept of＂program evaluation＂.     

The Form of Literary Translation——“Foregrounding Translation” and the Translator's Poetic Entry

From the epistemological perspective translating sense is to pursue truth,while translating flavor is to pursue beauty.Rational knowledge is aimed atfidelity;perceptive knowledge thebeauty.Literary language approaches fidelity because of beauty while non-literary language approaches beauty because of its fidelity.     

The Symbolic Meanings of ＂Food＂ and ＂Hunger＂ in The Woman Warrior

In novel the Woman Warrior,food and hunger have indispensable symbolic meanings.Hunger becomes a symbol of women's desire and the only way to get rid of the hunger is the food——women's self-reliance.     

How to Arouse the Children＇s Interests in Learning English

This paper discusses how to arouse the children’s interests in learning English. The paper first expounds four basic principlesabout arousing children’s interests in learning English. In the second part, the writer gives three kinds of game activities which are fit for chil-dren and can effectively arouse children’s interests. About the last part of this paper, it is pointed out teacher’s behaviors should guide chil-dren through teaching technique and conventional teaching facility. Moreover, the most important point is that a teacher should encouragestudents an let them feel achievable.     

How to Foster Students＇ Ability of Studying Independently——English Study for Example

Among students＇ abilities,the important one is the ability of studying independently.It is the teachers＇ indispensable task to foster students＇ ability of studying independently.This essay deals with the problem that how a teacher can foster the ability of student self-study,especially English study,from these perspectives：the nature,the characteristics,the conditions and the structure of the ability of independent study.The appropriate methods that the teacher should take in the process of fostering the ability are discussed in the last part of this essay.     

On Effectiveness of Task-based Reading Teaching in Vocational College

Task-based Language Teaching advocates that the students' learning is to master the language naturally and automatically by finishing real tasks in activities,which is a communicative process.Based upon Willis' model for TBLT,the author has done experiment in two classes.The results showed that task-based reading teaching is suitable to vocational college students.There is great significance appeared in the learning quality on the students in experimental class.(1) It can build up the students' self-confide...     

The Women Characters in the Novel The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a significant classic in American literature and Fitzgerald is also considered as a chronicler of the＂Jazz Age＂.The women characters play an important role in revealing the theme of the novel.The paper analyzes these women characters and points out their function juxtaposed against Gatsby.These women are all the victims of a society of wealth in American twenties.Compared to Fitzgerald＇s life,his attitude toward women and love is ambivalent.What happens to Gatsby is a warning to the rest of mankind.In the progress of realizing our own dream,we should be and can be soberer than those protagonists in the novel.     

Hemingway and the ＂Cold Heroes＂

<正>Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous American novelists,short story writer and essayist,whose deceptively simple prose style hasinfluenced wide range of writers.The writing style of Hemingway is social.He usually describes hisown true experience in this novel.Hemingway creates many "HemingwayHeroes".They live in great pressure,they suffer from painful physicalwound and terrible mental wound,but they always keep stances of man-hood,such as Santiago in The Old Man and the     

A Study on Name Translation

In the field of translation,name translation is seldom noticed.Even though we can not deny that name translation is an indispensible part in translation,the attention that we paid to it is not enough.In Chinese and English cultures,names are given different significances.So it is necessary to pay enough attention to the translation of names from its situations,skills and meanings.But so far there is still no fixed standard of name translation,both from its forms and skills.Form the time that people from different cultures met and communicated,name translation had become a part that can not be ignored in translation.The target of name translation is simple,but the means of it are variable.The attractive ways of name translation are worth to study,and it is significant indeed.In this thesis I will focus on how to translate English names into Chinese,analysis the phenomena,explore the skills and come up with some valuable viewpoints.With some selected examples,we can discuss the problem we just noticed above,and several unsolved problems will appear in the thesis.     

How Does Headlines Capture Readers--An Analysis of Characteristics of English News Report Headlines

Since the emergence of newspaper,the headline has been the necessity of a news report.The Newspaper headline which takes the crucial part in a news report has been given the responsibility to capture readers,especially in the environment of highly intense competition of this industry.Even with the application of high technology in the news industry,the significance of the headline is enormously strengthened rather than weakened.On the one hand,the mission of the headline determines its significance.And on the other,its characteristics help to achieve the responsibility.Therefore the particular language adopted in the headline,namely "headlinese",must contain certain features which could appeal readers' attention.This paper will focus on the characteristics of the English newspaper headline and find out how it captures readers.     

Contrastive Study of TC Sentence and SP Sentence and Skills on Selecting Subjects

Chinese is a topic-prominent language while English is a subject-prominent one.This paper,based on the typological differences between the two languages,analyzes their basic structure.Also,it explores some skills on selecting a subject in transferring TC structure into SP structure.     

Context and Interaction in Second Language Teaching and Learning

In the process of the research of second language teaching and learning,people gradually find the influence of context as well as interaction,holding an idea that the language output and comprehension cannot be achieved without taking the context into consideration.In the second language teaching and learning classroom,the interaction among the learners and between learner and teacher pushes the development of second language learning to some degree.Combined with the concrete situation of second language teaching and learning in China,the essay points out some difficulties as well as put forwards some relevant suggestions after the literature reviews for the relevant researches in and out of China.     

The Use of the Infinitive

The article focuses on the use of the infinitive.The infinitive can be used as subject,object,predicative,attributive,complement,and adverbial as well.It has the passive voice and aspects too.A detailed analysis is given on the use of the infinitive,especially when the infinitive matches the verb.The infinitive phrase is also analyzed.A concise summary of the rules of the use of the infinitive is given through detailed analyses and a lot of examples.     

The Tragic Hero of a New Type--a Brief Analysis of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is a world famous literary character created by Arthur Miller to represent the failed American Dream.This paper analyzes the reasons for his failure,pointing out that it is his character flaws that lead to his tragic ending.