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A Shift Towards Politeness in Doctor-Patient Consultation: A Case Study in Australia
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
275-287
Received:
10 August 2022
Accepted:
3 September 2022
Published:
14 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.11
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Abstract: This paper includes a detailed analysis of a consultation between a general practitioner and his male patient in a Canberra suburb. This study illustrates the shift toward a model of patient-centeredness which is applaused in Australia. The purpose of this study is not only to reinforce the new concept of medical consultation – patient-centeredness but also to confirm the necessity of change in medical discourse and reveal the reasons that lead to the movement in doctor talk. The data was collected by note taking and recording which was later transcribed for the aim of data analyses. The researcher’s role was that of the passive ethnographic researcher, playing no further role in the consultation. In other words, there was no intervention when the consultation occurred. Therefore, the information obtained from the consultation was completely natural. The theoretical framework used in this current study is Conversation Analysis (CA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) which transcribed the discourse of doctor talk. Aspects of data analyses were followed by a bottom-up approach and conducted by both qualitative and quantitative methods. This paper concludes that the language of the doctor cannot standstill when the language of society is always changing. In other words, the doctor’s language in this study has obviously been affected by the language used in Australian society. The movement towards a trend of politeness, informality and solidarity in the Australian language has entailed a shift in the language of Australian doctors.
Abstract: This paper includes a detailed analysis of a consultation between a general practitioner and his male patient in a Canberra suburb. This study illustrates the shift toward a model of patient-centeredness which is applaused in Australia. The purpose of this study is not only to reinforce the new concept of medical consultation – patient-centeredness...
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Construction of Advanced Listening and Speaking Course from the Perspective of Educational Ecology
Ying Liao,
Li Chen,
Na Yang
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
288-296
Received:
22 August 2022
Accepted:
6 September 2022
Published:
16 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.12
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Abstract: The College English Teaching Guidelines (2020) (a guide for ordinary colleges and universities to formulate college English teaching syllabuses, and the main basis of English course teaching and course evaluation) offers new requirements for college English teaching. Advanced Listening and Speaking, as one essential optional course in the College English course group, aiming to improve students' English listening and speaking ability in class activities, should comply with this requirement to achieve the goal of good English language expression ability and cross-cultural communication ability. This course, has a more dynamic environment than other courses in the course group, which can help teachers find the problems to improve the students’ performance and create a better situation to cultivate students' language proficiency to meet the actual needs of the individuals, country, and society. Therefore, this study analyses the whole teaching process of Advanced Listening and Speaking course through teaching process under the guidance of Educational Ecology, in order to solve some problems like “classroom silence” and “poor language production” by analyzing the ecological factors and the ecological system of this course, and give suggestions by using four laws of educational ecology theory: the law of tolerance, the law of limiting factors, the niche theory, and flowerpot effect.
Abstract: The College English Teaching Guidelines (2020) (a guide for ordinary colleges and universities to formulate college English teaching syllabuses, and the main basis of English course teaching and course evaluation) offers new requirements for college English teaching. Advanced Listening and Speaking, as one essential optional course in the College E...
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Perceptions of Pre-service Teachers’ in Developing Reading Comprehension Through Critical Reading Skills
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
297-301
Received:
28 August 2022
Accepted:
14 September 2022
Published:
27 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.13
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Abstract: This study is an attempt to explore the perceptions of pre-service teachers in developing reading comprehension through critical reading skills. The reason behind carrying out this research is that the most of pre-service teachers are very poor in critical reading skills. They are not critical enough to comprehend the underlying meaning of the text using the critical approaches. I conducted this study adopting action research design under qualitative approach to identify the attitudes of pre-service teachers on the importance of critical reading skills to develop their reading comprehension skills. Thirty students from English departments of seventh batch who have been studying in fourth semester were selected as the sample of this study. They were divided into 5 groups of 6 students of each group in order to make the class interactive. Convenient non-random sampling procedure was used to select the sample in this study. I administered in-depth interview to each group leader from every group. The findings of this study show that critical reading skills help to develop creative writing and critical thinking skills; readers can come up with multiple meaning through critical reading skills; there is the importance of reading strategies for critical reading skills; and academic writing can be promoted through critical reading skills. Critical reading skills are essential to make readers very dynamic and smart academically.
Abstract: This study is an attempt to explore the perceptions of pre-service teachers in developing reading comprehension through critical reading skills. The reason behind carrying out this research is that the most of pre-service teachers are very poor in critical reading skills. They are not critical enough to comprehend the underlying meaning of the text...
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Crumbling Gingerbread Lovers: Reading the Female Aphasia in Hans Christian Andersen’s “Under the Willow-Tree”
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
302-305
Received:
19 August 2022
Accepted:
29 September 2022
Published:
18 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.14
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Abstract: “Aphasia” is originally defined as the loss of ability to articulate words or comprehend language, but after its introduction into literary criticism, it is usually correlated to women’s impediment to speech due to social deprival. In his “Under the Willow-Tree”, Hans Christian Andersen depicts the heroine Joanna as a “female aphasia”. This paper aims to explore and examine the reason why and how Joanna becomes a “female aphasia” in the story like other female characters in literary works written by male authors. Through reading the text, this paper finds that Joanna is “lost” in the story because the story is narrated from the perspective of the hero Knud. There are several ways to deprive a woman’s power of speech. Firstly, the patriarchal consciousness of speech impedes women to articulate their ideas. Secondly, in a patriarchal society, the use of language inevitably takes on a masculine consciousness and speech becomes dominated by men, thus women are depicted as objects. Thirdly, women are repelled by the formal register of speech, and they can only be active in informal domains. Therefore, women have been deprived of the ability to speak. The story of the gingerbread lovers implies the fact that Joanna is “female aphasia”, and it is the intertext of the tragedy of the two protagonists. Only by reading the two stories jointly can one manages to discover the origin of female aphasia.
Abstract: “Aphasia” is originally defined as the loss of ability to articulate words or comprehend language, but after its introduction into literary criticism, it is usually correlated to women’s impediment to speech due to social deprival. In his “Under the Willow-Tree”, Hans Christian Andersen depicts the heroine Joanna as a “female aphasia”. This paper a...
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Regeneration from Plague: Analysis of Trauma Narrative in The Painted Veil
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
306-310
Received:
8 September 2022
Accepted:
4 October 2022
Published:
18 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijll.20221005.15
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Abstract: The Painted Veil is a work with the emotional entanglement of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, as the main clue, which mainly depicts Kitty’s regeneration from the plague based on trauma. Born in a middle class family, Kitty’s mother forced her to make the most of marriage to enter the upper class, which caused her trauma in the family. Unfortunately Kitty didn’t catch the chance, so she had to marry Walter in a hurry, which led to the trauma in her marriage. She was very disappointed in the marriage, which resulted in her affairs with Charles Townsend. In order to revenge, Walter took her to Mei-tan-fu, a plague-stricken place in foreign lands, where she suffered from the trauma from constant death threat. Deeply traumatized in her marriage and the death threat, Kitty was disillusioned and even wanted to die. During her work in the monastery, she began to reflect on herself in the past, realized the true life value, and found the way to regeneration. In view of this, the author carried out narrative analysis of the source of her trauma, the tortures of trauma, and her fight against trauma, aiming at criticizing the utilitarianism and worldliness in western modern concepts.
Abstract: The Painted Veil is a work with the emotional entanglement of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, as the main clue, which mainly depicts Kitty’s regeneration from the plague based on trauma. Born in a middle class family, Kitty’s mother forced her to make the most of marriage to enter the upper class, which caused her trauma in t...
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