The Postgraduate English Teaching on the Basis of Students'Academic Ability Development
On the language level the academic ability is developed through such a process as:"reading literatures and finding research questions","writing the abstract","attending conferences for feed-backs",and"submitting the paper".On the basis of that process,this paper supplements the initial step"analyzing the English language features"and investigates the teaching and research points of post-graduate academic English teaching courses.The"English features"step reveals that root words often express the concrete/micro/common meanings while derivational words often the abstract/macro/rare meanings,and explains that phenomenon with the naming order of human cognizing process.The"liter-ature and research questions"step requires students read the relevant literatures after class,and then collectively discuss the potential research questions on class.The"abstract writing"step analyzes the language features of IMRD moves of English abstracts from the international top journal of Linguistics,and finds that the English abstract regularly uses present tense and active voice for the four moves,a-long with the mixture of first person(for the M and R moves)and third person(for the I and D moves).Moreover,papers written by sole authors are discovered to use the first person singular.With those findings as the example I require students on their own analyze the abstract features of their rele-vant majors.The"conference"step trains students'abilities of holding and attending conference along with their peer review ability by the mock international academic conference.The"paper submission"step emphasizes the contents and purposes of cover letters at different submission procedures.This re-search is designed according to the academic ability development process,can effectively enhance the academic ability of postgraduate students,and therefore is of high application value.
postgraduate academic English teachingacademic ability developmentroot words and derivational wordslanguage features of abstractmock academic conference
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