This paper studies the mood and modal system and its interpersonal function of language in English commercial advertising on basis of Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar theory. Starting from the examples of English commercial advertisements，this paper analyzes the characteristics of its mood system and modal system respectively, and concludes the three specific interpersonal functions of mood modal system in realizing the purpose of English commercial advertisements.
With the continuous development of modern information technology and improvement of multimedia teaching equipment, it has become the training goal of universities to cultivate graduate students with high quality and strong comprehensive application ability of foreign languages. CDIO concept is based on practice, guides the practice and exploration of multimodal teaching mode, constructs the multimodal teaching mode of “Ordinary classroom teaching + Online course teaching + Extracurricular autonomous learning + Innovative practice training”, cultivates graduate students’ language practice ability, autonomous learning ability, and makes graduate students’ foreign language teaching keep up with the pace of the times.
This quantitative study sought to examine whether there existed relationships between teacher transformational leadership and students’ motivation to learn. In aggregate, 171 undergraduates recruited from a public Chinese university participated in the study through a random sampling. The participants were administered two instruments: the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) 5X-short to measure students’ perceptions of the teacher transformational leadership in the educational context and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaires (MSLQ) to measure students’ motivation to learn. The data collected were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation and multiple regressions using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results from the multiple regression analyses further verified the findings in the previous literature that teacher transformational leadership could contribute to the students’ increased motivation to learn. It is recommended in the study that professional development be the best practice to facilitate the problems and all the college teachers should attend the professional development about transformational leadership behaviors, and implement the newly-acquired knowledge and skills to elevate students’ motivation to learn.
The study aimed to identify the degree of awareness of basic grade teachers about reading difficulties. The study included 151 teachers. The researcher prepared the study tool, and its validity and reliability indications were verified. The results indicated a moderate to high degree of awareness. The results revealed that males are more aware than females of the characteristics. The study recommended the necessity of educating teachers about the difficulties of reading and identifying the teachers’ needs necessary to teach this group of students.
Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Her uncertainty and contradictory attitudes towards religion in her poems have always been a controversy of critics about her religious belief. By analyzing her poems and letters and referring to her life experiences, the paper identifies Dickinson as individualistically religious rather than pagan.
