Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the Englis...Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the English writings of college students,the lack of structural cohesion and semantic coherence is common.The theme-rheme theory is about discourse cohesion.Proper use of themes and thematic progession patterns qualifies cohesion and clear thoughts of a discourse and the variety of sentence patterns.Therefore,the theme-rheme theory plays an important role in writing teaching.展开更多
This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some...This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some implications on improving listening comprehension.展开更多
This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be ...This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.展开更多
This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the ...This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the linear theme pattern and the constant theme pattern, and sometimes the derived theme pattern and other patterns are also used to facilitate the text coherence and the plot development. Thematic progression in various fields has been studied extensively, but the analysis aims to short story is less than text coherence and other aspects. And there are some implications to teaching, writing, reading, and translation.展开更多
文摘Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the English writings of college students,the lack of structural cohesion and semantic coherence is common.The theme-rheme theory is about discourse cohesion.Proper use of themes and thematic progession patterns qualifies cohesion and clear thoughts of a discourse and the variety of sentence patterns.Therefore,the theme-rheme theory plays an important role in writing teaching.
文摘This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some implications on improving listening comprehension.
文摘This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.
文摘This paper is an attempt to discuss the relationship between genre and the thematic progression. Through qualitative analysis of the short story Necklace of Maupassant, it is found that narrative texts always use the linear theme pattern and the constant theme pattern, and sometimes the derived theme pattern and other patterns are also used to facilitate the text coherence and the plot development. Thematic progression in various fields has been studied extensively, but the analysis aims to short story is less than text coherence and other aspects. And there are some implications to teaching, writing, reading, and translation.
