Quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed in this study. The research design adopted for the study was descriptive cross-sectional survey. The population of the study was all headteachers and teachers in the Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality. Purposive and convenient sampling techniques were used to select the respondents for the study. Purposive sampling techniques was used to select 47 Public Junior High School headteachers and 71 Social Studies Teachers from the Kassena-Nankana Municipality. Convenience sampling technique was used to select 10 participants for the qualitative part of the study. Questionnaire and interview guide were the main instruments used for data collection for the study. Quantitative data were analysed using Version 20 of the Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS). This was done using percentages, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics like t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regressions. The qualitative data were analyzed using the thematic approach. The study revealed that there was a strong and statistically significant positive relationship between supervisory practices and job performance of Social Studies teachers in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality. The study also concluded that headteachers’ supervision was not without challenges. The challenges include work overload among the headteachers, uncooperative attitude of teachers, inadequate supervisory competences of headteachers, and inadequate resources for supervision. It is recommended that Social Studies teachers in the municipality should be supported and encouraged to sustain and improve on their job performance in the future. This could be achieved by Ghana Education Service instituting an award scheme for high performing teachers, and using the level of job performance as a core criterion in appraising and promoting Social Studies teachers. It is also recommended that The Public Junior High Schools in the municipality should liaise with the Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs), old boys and girls, religious organisations, the Municipal Assembly, and philanthropists to solicit for resources that are needed to boost supervision in the schools.

The study was to examine the phonological variations between Gbi-Dzigbe and Ve varieties of Ewe in the Hohoe Municipality and Afadzato South districts in the middle part of Volta Region of Ghana. Harris’ (1951) phoneme theory was used to establish whether these two speech communities speak different varieties of Ewe or not. A word list was compiled from native speakers from both communities and used for the research. The orthography formed the bases for comparison of the phonemes. Through the Pair test, the researchers used substitution test/overlapping of the phonemes in the words to identify the contrast between pairs of words. Some of the phonemes turn to be very productive per the word list; [t] in GDVE is replaced by [ts] in VVE, [d] in GDVE is replaced by [dz] in VVE. The contrast between the two varieties of Ewe under consideration show that they differ. The study concluded that the two speech communities speak different dialects of Ewe.

Lin Shu‘s Kuai Rou Yu Sheng Shu (《块肉余生述》) is very similar to the original text David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Lin’s translation seems very free in that he is not faithful to the original author and uses amplification, omission, combination, division, replacement, alteration, and other kinds of transfer operations. As for the reasons why Lin Shu employed methods of translation variation, it seems that we can resort to the relevant translation theory proposed by Andre Lefevere. Lefevere has formulated his poetic theory which is one of the significant achievements in translation studies. The paper is to conduct some research into Lin Shu’s Kuai Rou Yu Sheng Shu from the perspective of Lefevere’s poetic theory, aiming at interpreting how cultural context manipulates the process of literary translation in the late Qing dynasty, including the choice of source texts and translation strategies. Using comparative and descriptive methods from the angle of the translation variation theory the paper explores and summarizes the translation variation methods used in Kuai Rou Yu Sheng Shu. Then, referring to Lefevere’s poetics, it analyzes and discusses the deep-level socio-cultural reasons for the translation variation methods employed by Lin Shu in his rendering of David Copperfield, proving that Lin’s translation is not a kind of distorted translation but a rational and inevitable outcome produced by the socio-cultural factors of the day.

Literacy is without argument the core and foundation of human and economic development of every country. Notwithstanding the attempt made by Ghana to improve and increase universal primary school enrollment, students’ literacy level has been found to remain low. This study sought to assess the link between effective teachers and literacy among pupils at the basic education level in Accra. To achieve the purpose of the study, a questionnaire survey of the characteristics of effective teachers in teaching literacy in Accra was employed. A sample size of 120 teachers identified by their head teachers as effective teachers were selected by the researcher for the study using the purposive sampling technique. The average class scores in literacy of pupils of the effective teachers were used as the dependent variables. Mean and standard deviation (minimum and maximum) were used to describe the level of knowledge that effective teachers have when it comes to teaching literacy, while simple linear regression analysis and Pearson correlation were used to quantify the relationship between effective teachers’ knowledge of literacy teaching and students literacy classroom performance. The statistical significance level was set at five percent (5％). All analyses were carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The study revealed that effective teachers have a high level of knowledge in the teaching of literacy. These high levels of knowledge by the effective teachers’ were found to have a significant positive correlation with pupils’ performance in literacy in the classroom. Increasing the amount of in-service training for elementary school teachers is a recommendation for education policymakers.

The smart classroom is the most important and the very concrete construction part in the structure of the up-to-date teaching modes. Through explaining the connotation of the integrated teaching mode in the post-epidemic era and analyzing the current construction status of smart classrooms in Chinese colleges and universities, this paper provides “3 ONE” overall framework of the construction of the smart classroom. Then, taking the application and practice of the smart classroom in Hubei College of Chinese Medicine as an example, this article summarized functional design and analyzed its application effects under integrated teaching mode in three layers, information technology layer, teaching space layer and classroom learning layer. Finally, this article put forward difficult points and key points, expecting to provide reference for future construction and upgrade of the smart classroom in colleges and universities.

As the external window of artist books and independent book publications, Art Book Fair has become more and more open and dynamic in recent years. Its expression of self spirit and extension of life ideas have attracted the attention and favor of the audience. Exploring the development, structure and cultural ecology of Chinese art book fair and revealing the development logic behind art and design publications will help to explore the benign development path of Art Book Fair in the modern context, and then provide enlightenment for examining the richness and differences of contemporary art ecology.

The year 2021 is the turning point of China’s population, and China’s population will experience negative growth for the first time. This landmark moment means that the aging rate of China’s population will be faster and faster, and the supporting elderly care service industry also needs rapid development. However, the current pension service enterprises are facing difficulties in recruiting, retaining and talent shortage. There are many reasons for this phenomenon. One of the more important reasons is that the wages and benefits of the elderly care service industry are relatively low, and there is a lack of space for career promotion, which leads to the lack of motivation of employees, thus affecting the recruitment, training and precipitation of talents in elderly care enterprises. Based on the salary principle of enterprise organization construction, combined with the management characteristics of elderly care enterprises, this paper proposes a set of salary incentive design scheme to provide reference for the management of elderly care enterprises.

“Building morality and cultivating people” is not only the fundamental task of Chinas education, but also the fundamental task of contemporary college students ideological and political education. College network public opinion is an important work of college ideological and political work. In the new media environment, strengthening the regulation of network public opinion is one of the important contents of school moral education. Doing a good job of public opinion guidance is of great significance for maintaining social harmony and stability. Establishing the relationship between moral cultivation and public opinion management in colleges and universities is the relationship between theoretical essence and guiding practice. It is of profound practical significance for the public opinion management of college students to treat at the public opinion management of colleges and universities from the perspective of establishing morality and cultivating people, and learn from the principle of virus transmission in virology.

Food culture is an important part of Jingchu culture, which plays a vital role in boosting the development of Hubei economy and tourism industry. By investigating the current situation of the English translation of specialties in Hubei regional, this paper finds that there are some problems in the translation, such as vagueness and word-for-word translation, etc. The survey lays a foundation for the construction of the English translation standards of Hubei local specialties in the future.

Combined with the data displayed in the employment report and the actual employment needs of college students, this study studies the “Contemporary College English (Intensive Reading)” which widely used by English majors, and finds that this set of textbooks has the advantages of diverse genres, rich content, profound themes and prominent focus, which can effectively improve learners’ English language knowledge and skills. But there are also certain shortcomings, such as the lack of Chinese culture, the emphasis on theory over practice, the detachment from the times and the lack of practicality. In order to meet the learning needs of learners and meet the objective requirements of the job market for learners English knowledge and skills, this study proposes corresponding solutions, including increasing Chinese culture, strengthening practical content, updating corpus and increasing applied content.

As an ancient civilization with a long history, Chinas political development and political culture all carry their own unique nature and meaning, and their contents are exceptionally complex. This paper briefly discusses three parts: first, sorting out traditional Chinese political culture; second, the problems arising in the process of transformation of traditional Chinese political culture; and third, making some suggestions for the construction of political culture in contemporary China. These three parts are the hot issues of Chinese political culture research at present, and the academic community has accumulated very rich results, but many issues are still inconclusive, and this paper will also follow up some of them with in-depth research.

While foreign language scholars all over the world started their research in intercultural foreign language teaching, it has become a booming research field these years and its academic accumulation has reached a considerable scale. Especially in China, scholars keep continuing their research and findings keep springing up. A lot of findings in intercultural foreign language teaching is based on some intercultural models, so if we want to combine the theory of intercultural into our real teaching situation, we should be aware of those typical models.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the headteachers instructional supervisory styles and job performance of Social Studies teachers in some Public Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study was grounded in Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon’s 1998 developmental supervisory theory. The study adopted the cross-sectional design. The population covered all headteachers in public Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality. The sample was made up of 47 headteachers and 71 Social Studies teachers. Purposive and convenience were used to select the sample for the study. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected using the questionnaire and semi-structured interview guide respectively. With the aid of the Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS) version 20, the quantitative data were analysed using percentages, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics like t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression. The study revealed that the headteachers applied the four supervisory styles the directive control, supervisory style was dominant among the headteachers, followed by non-directive control and directive informational while collaborative supervisory practice was least prevalent among the headteachers. The study also indicated that the teachers’ level of job performance was judged to be very good. As much as the teachers need to be commended on this feat, more effort is required from them to reach the excellent performance level. It is recommended that, the Kassena-Nankana Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service should organise capacity building in-service training and workshops for the headteachers to equip and empower them to use a mix of supervisory styles when the situation arises. It is also recommended that, Social Studies teachers should be encouraged to be aware of the relevance of supervision to their work. This can be achieved when the headteachers tailor their supervisory styles towards the professional development of the teachers to convince such teachers to commit to the supervisory process.

Consumer purchase intention and buying behaviour are critical to the sales volume of any organization. To achieve this, the brands or organizations have to get their products or services in the face of their target audience. One of the ways they do this is through influencer marketing. This study, therefore, examines influencer marketing, purchase intention, and buying behaviour of the Pepsi brand among undergraduates of Lead City University Ibadan, Nigeria. Theoretically grounded in source credibility theory and the theory of planned behaviour, the study made use of the survey research design, collecting data in one stream and surveyed 347 respondents in Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. The sampling technique was purposive sampling and a questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings from this study revealed that Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria undergraduates know and consume the Pepsi product and are also aware of the influencers that are employed by the Pepsi brand to drive home their advertising messages. It also revealed that several factors influence purchase intention among which are brand colours and appeal, influencer marketing, price, and standards. Also, though the world has gone digital, traditional means of advertising should not be undermined. The study, therefore, recommends that Pepsi should continue with the use of influencers in promoting its products, consider nano influencers as well as influencer marketing contributes to the buying behaviour and purchase intention of youths in Nigeria.

Linguistic accuracy is an important aspect in practical writing. Analyzing the errors in students practical writing and investigating the causes of the errors help teachers understand the learning situation and improve their teaching. Therefore, this study selects 64 students in senior three class A of a key high school in Hubei Province as the research subjects to analyze the problems in language expression based on the requirements of The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools, and to explore the in-depth reasons and propose corresponding countermeasures.

From the perspective of system theory, multiple subsystems influence and then achieve a new balance, and before the new balance system optimization to upgrade the parallel process is the essence of the new normal, and corresponding to higher education, means that industry enterprise system, education system and other subsystems influence and reach a new balance, higher education new normal is before the arrival of the new balance of education mode optimization and upgrade a process. In this context, independent colleges, as a part of the education system, should also be actively adjusted. During the period, the application of modern panoramic experiential teaching mode may help independent colleges to adapt to the new normal of higher education. Therefore, this paper will discuss the construction of modern panoramic experiential teaching mode in independent colleges based on the new normal of higher education.

Mass amateurization has been regarded as the highest form of learning assessment. As the world goes digital learning assessment also has metamorphosed into something that prompts the utilization of various media and methods. This study is centered on the importance, usefulness, and challenges of technology used as a tool for student learning assessment. Further, the study also looked into practices employed by the teacher in using technology as a tool for student learning assessment in both formative assessment and summative. Findings reveal that the importance, usefulness, and challenges brought about by technology are considered indispensable by the student respondents in their learning assessment. Meanwhile, teachers sparingly use technology both in formative and summative assessments of student learning. As to the significant difference in technology importance, usefulness, and challenges, sex, course, and level are found to have no effect on the perception of the respondents.

In view of the limitations of empirical research, it is necessary to research the essence of written error corrective feedback and explore whether it can promote the development of second language for learners from the theory of second language acquisition. In this paper, we discuss the process of second language acquisition, the affectional factors of learners and the interaction between teachers and students, and find the theoretical basis for written error corrective feedback to promote the development of second language acquisition.

The rapid development of the Internet is both an opportunity and a challenge to the development of higher education, which can provide more possibilities for the development of higher education management, and on the other hand, there are many unknown risks under these more possibilities. However, it must be realized that the “Internet +” infiltration of higher education management is the trend of The Times. Therefore, it is necessary to foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses to seek more rapid development of higher education. In this regard, it is first necessary to analyze the characteristics of The Times of “Internet +” and its enlightenment to the management of higher education, and then discuss the problems existing in the management of higher education deeply under the background of “Internet +”, and on this basis, we should put forward innovative strategies for the relevant problems.

The fundamental purpose of the “double reduction” policy is to reduce the burden of students in the compulsory education stage and implement the people-oriented education concept. This measure follows the development law of students in the compulsory education stage, and has practical significance for promoting the all-round development of students. Under the background of the “double reduction” policy, school physical education has ushered in new opportunities for development, and it has received more attention and increased support from related parties. How to seize the opportunity to comprehensively improve the quality of school physical education should be the key exploration of schools. The problem. This paper briefly analyzes the opportunities of school physical education under the double reduction policy, and focuses on the path of optimizing school physical education.

In 1887, the U.S. Congress systematically voted to grant citizenship to Indians through the Dawes Act. To cultivate the inner citizenship of Indians, the federal government advocated the establishment of the off-reservation boarding schools to teach Indian children English, handicrafts, physical education, religion, and other subjects, in order to change the traditional tribal outlook of Indian children, which was typified by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.On the one hand, the citizenship-oriented Indian education of the period helped many Indians integrate into mainstream American society. On the other hand, they led to cultural fragmentation of the Indian community.

A country can show its policies and development through its publicity documents, which serve as an important window for other countries to understand its national conditions and learn from its practice. The same holds true for China. Publicity document belongs to the political publicity text and its translation plays a major part in intercultural interactions. Thus, translators should work to ensure that the translated text conveys the same information as the original one does, takes into account the characteristics of the foreign communication environment, and conforms to the usage of the target language. This paper selects the Chinese-English version of the white paper Biodiversity Conservation in China as the research object to analyze the translator’s adaptative choices during translation from the perspective of linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions, namely the three-dimensional transformation theory of eco-translatology, so as to further foreign readers’ understanding of this white paper and provide some reference for Chinese-English translation of political publicity text.

Social workers adhere to the social work concept of helping others and helping themselves to provide necessary help and services for the object of service will always encounter such and such contradictions. How to clarify and resolve the contradictions between social workers and service objects, this paper examines the contradictions between social work and service objects through the research method of social contradictions. It is believed that both social workers and service objects should correctly grasp the contradictions between service subject and service object, between service content and service form, between service purpose and service means, between service process and service result, and realize the solution of problems and achieve the value goal of professional social work in the process of constantly resolving contradictions.

As one of the compulsory subjects of music majors in colleges and universities, the history of ancient Chinese music, how should its subject development and theoretical research be carried out effectively in contemporary times? The methodology of interdisciplinary research, which is now hotly advocated by the education circle, has been transplanted into the academic research of ancient Chinese music history, and it has also gained a new vitality. In this context, this paper analyzes the needs of interdisciplinary methodology in ancient Chinese music history, and focuses on exploring the new thinking and value meaning judgments that interdisciplinary methodology endows with Chinese music history, aiming to draw a final conclusion. Under the leadership of the core of problem awareness, research should build an interdisciplinary and multi-perspective thinking mode in order to tap its new research value.

Traditional culture is the cultural accumulation of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and it is a valuable spiritual and cultural wealth. Inheriting and developing traditional culture in high school art education can not only improve students’ artistic accomplishment and art appreciation ability, but also guide students to establish correct Values and outlook on life, enhance students’ sense of identity with the country and the nation. However, in the current high school art education, the exploration and utilization of the excellent traditional culture of various ethnic groups in our country is insufficient, and the educational function of the excellent traditional culture cannot be fully exerted. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out research on how to inherit and develop the excellent traditional culture in the high school art education. This article briefly expounds the significance of inheriting and developing excellent traditional culture in high school art education, and discusses the specific implementation path.

The purpose of the study was to examine the early marriage on the adolescent girl’s education in Kato a suburb in the Berekum Municipality. The population of the study consists of seventy (70) respondents that comprised of married adolescent girls and their parents in Kato a suburb in the Berekum Municipality to whom the research findings would be generalized. Purposive sample and sampling technique was used to sample respondents for the study. The main instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and an interview guide. The quantitative data entry and analysis was done by using the SPSS software package. The data was edited, coded and analysed into frequencies, percentages with interpretations. The qualitative data was analysed by the use of the interpretative method based on the themes arrived at during the data collection. The study revealed that, adolescent girls get married because of high poverty rate of their parents, peer influence and lack of education. It also concluded that, early marriage prevents adolescent girls from achieving their dreams, poor and distressed socio-economic lives of the married girls are some of the problems associated with early marriage. The study indicated that the use of education campaign should be used to sensitize the public on the need to educate the girl-child; must government open debate among the citizen on the appropriate marriage age for consenting girls, training of more female teachers for our schools. It is recommended that the Government and Municipal assemblies should organize mobilization and sensitizing programs in the entire district particularly in the study area to create awareness in people about the importance of girls’ education, highlight the negative effects of early motherhood on the individual and the society as whole. Government in collaboration with the Municipal Assembly should create jobs for the parents in the area in order to reduce poverty. It is also recommended that, Ghana education service (GES) should establish special school for early mothers so that they would be able to acquire a certain level of numeracy and literacy. Scholarship scheme should be provided for the under-privileged girls so that they would be able to receive education to university level. It is duly recommended that non-governmental organizations should try to establish more training centers to equip these girls with skills for a better future.

This paper aims at the alignment study on translation competence scales from CSE and translation testing from CET-4. Through analyzing the same points, similarities and differences to find out where the two can be combined, it is a way to provide measures for English learners and users from school and society during English study. In the first, this paper analyzes the alignment study on ability cultivation from three aspects: bilingual ability, comprehension ability, and application ability. Then, the paper discusses the alignment study on testing skills, which are expended to reading comprehension skills, bilingual transferring skills, and language expressing skills. There are the same points, similarities and differences parts between translation competence scales from CSE and translation testing from CET-4. In the end, it is noted that the alignment is in English learners and users’ study, school teaching and cultural communication. It is expected to offer suggestions to the cultivation of English learning abilities and study strategies for English learners and users.

This paper will first introduce feminism and translation studies; Then it reviews the research status of feminist translation theory at home and abroad by means of literature analysis and induction, and points out the reasons for its slow development in China in recent years through comparative analysis; Then it analyzes and summarizes the criticisms and doubts faced by feminist translation theory, and looks forward to the development of feminist translation studies from the perspectives of translators’ text selection and the creation of feminist translation theory with Chinese characteristics in the new era. I hope this paper will contribute to the field of translation studies and promote the in-depth study of feminist translation studies.

The discourse of Foreign Ministry spokesperson is one of the research hot spots in recent years. As the fifth female spokesperson in China’s diplomatic history, Hua Chunying represents the official image of the Chinese government. She conveys China’s voice and attitude by answering Chinese and foreign media reporters’ questions at regular press conferences. Most of the research on Hua Chunying is based on the relevant corpus in answering reporters’ questions, it is limited to discussing her discourse style and discourse attitude. At present, there is no research that specifically reviews Hua Chunying and her discourse. Therefore, this article focuses on Hua Chunying’s discourse in Chinese and English literature, and then conducts a comprehensive investigation of Hua Chunying and her discourse from four aspects: language features, pragmatic strategies, discourse attitudes and refutation of foreign media discourses. By exploring the discussion and evaluation of Hua Chunying in Chinese and English literature, it will enrich the study of Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying’s discourse and most importantly it can broaden Chinese and foreign scholars’ research on Chinese government discourse.

As the Internet + teaching pattern is widely applied, online and offline blended teaching has been accepted by more colleges and universities. The author of the present study conducted a questionnaire survey on the major of interior design of architecture at G University, a vocational university in Zhejiang Province, to investigate the current situation of online and offline blended teaching and promote the reform of this teaching model. The results show that blended teaching is beneficial for student outcomes but has some drawbacks, such as poor interaction, insufficient restraints on students, knowledge not profound enough, teachers’ failure to answer after-class questions in a timely manner, and delayed assignment submission and feedback. Therefore, the author thinks that a good instructional design is pivotal for the major of interior design of architecture, which can ensure a reasonable number and time of courses that are offered via blended teaching, abundant online learning resources, and timely feedback and assignment submission..

Based on the three-dimensional transformation principle of Eco-Translatology formulated by Hu Gengshen and transforming the principle into specific translation methods by referring to Xiong Bing’s system of translation strategies and methods, the present study summarizes the main translation methods used in Zhuo Zhenying’s and Gopal Sukhu’s translations of Chu Ci (楚辞), analyzes their differences and the reasons for the differences, and discusses the implications for the retranslation of Chu Ci as well as Chinese culture going global. The research findings show that Zhuo’s version prefers to use foreignizing strategies, including the methods of transliteration, literal translation, transliteration plus literal translation, and literal translation plus annotation as well as the techniques of omission and addition. The use of these strategies, methods and techniques helps achieve the three-dimensional transformation equivalence and adapt to the translation ecology. However, Sukhu’s version prefers to use domesticating strategies, including the methods of recreation, imitation, free translation and variational translation as well as the techniques of combination and conversion. The use of these strategies, methods and techniques helps achieve the same purpose.

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Ethical Literary Criticism with the help of Citespace, a tool for document visualization and metrological analysis, and to promote the deepening development of Ethical Literary Criticism research by using Chinese CSSCI core journal papers and foreign SSCI and A&HCI core journal papers as the corpus. The study found that: 1. more articles were published in Chinese core journals than in international core journals; 2. Chinese research hotspots and frontiers are “ethical identity”, “brain text”, and “ethical criticism”, while international research hotspots are “ethical criticism”, “ethical identity”, “ethical teaching”, “ethical dilemmas”, and “interpersonal relationships. 3 Nie Zhenzhao leads the development of Ethical Literary Criticism at home and abroad. 4. Chinese scholars dominate the field of Ethical Literary Criticism in the world. The study concludes that the future development of Ethical Literary Criticism should focus on three aspects: strengthening the construction of a theoretical discourse system, deepening interdisciplinary research, and promoting international cooperation.

The Remains of The Day has been recognized as the work that established Kazuo Ishiguro as a first-class writer and the work that best reflects his personal style and narrative features. However, previous studies that mainly focus on his narrative strategy and style have often been limited to the discuss of the plot development, while neglecting the “covert progression” that goes hand in hand with it. Based on the theory of Shen Dan’s “dual narrative progression”, this paper attempts to clarify how the overt plot and covert progression complement and subvert each other to produce deep thematic meaning. In the overt plot, “dignity” is the only thing that the butler attached importance to because of the pressure put on by the social rules, while the undercurrent reveals the collision of sense and sensibility in a patriarchal society, which enriches the character’s image, fills the break in the plot development, and reveals the complex interactions among people.

Intangible cultural heritage is indispensable to the excellent Chinese culture, and contains broad and profound knowledge. Aesthetic education is effective on the enhancement of the aesthetic taste of the public. Integrating Yangjiabu new-year painting and other intangible cultural heritage into the teaching of aesthetic education in colleges and universities can not only better protect the intangible cultural heritage, but also further expand the inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage, which is significantly conducive to strengthen the aesthetic education in colleges and universities in all aspects and improve the education function of the colleges and universities. Yangjiabu woodblock new-year painting, as a paragon of intangible cultural heritage, was taken as an example in the research to explore the integration path of the intangible cultural heritage and the aesthetic education in colleges and universities. Detailed and accurate data were acquired through the fieldwork and interviews, and bottlenecks were summarized for the integration of the intangible cultural heritage into the aesthetic education. Taking into account the teaching requirements and characteristics of the aesthetic education, a strategic path for the effective integration of the intangible cultural heritage into the aesthetic education is proposed.

Practical teaching is an important part of the cultivation of business English talents. However, limited by such factors as time, space and facilities, such phenomena as poor sense of real experience, weak dynamic interaction, insufficient space for imagination and creation, and weak sense of participation arise. In order to solve these problems in practice teaching, an undergraduate university in Guangdong invested to build a business English practice teaching system, which creates a practical teaching environment combining virtuality with reality, and innovates the practical teaching mode combining virtuality with reality. Its practical teaching process and results demonstrate that the practical business English teaching environment combining virtuality with reality effectively expands the teaching time and space and brings a comprehensive experience and multi-dimensionally interactive learning space for teachers and students, significantly improving the quality and effects of practical teaching.

This study explores the institutional support systems available in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and its effects on female academic staff experiences and satisfaction. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were used to select participants for the study. In all, twenty (20) female academics were interviewed. An interview guide was used for the study. The transcripts were coded using thematic analysis. The study revealed that existing institutional policies are non-discriminatory. The institutional supports received were study leave, donor sponsored mentoring scheme, sponsorships for PhDs and conference attendance as well as maternity leave packages. The Research Fund indicate funding schemes such as conference travel grants and publication grant available to senior members, participants observed that more resources should be devoted to supporting a much wider population of senior members asking for various degrees of support to complete their terminal degrees and be effective at work. It was suggested that, it is important to expand on the institutional support packages to include the establishment of gender responsive structures such as creche, orientation for those returning from study leave to re-orient the senior member to re-adjust to work, emphasising the gender differentials in coping with work demands after study leaves. Assigning a mentor for the career growth and advancement of female senior members and finally creating special thesis grant for female academics on terminal degrees.

This paper first analyzes the research data and countermeasures of teaching standards and curriculum system construction in national higher vocational colleges. Secondly, by mining the specific practices of ideas, content, methods and actions, the application strategies and practical methods of the curriculum system construction are analyzed, so as to derive the specific content of the curriculum system. Finally, it summarizes the innovation points of the curriculum system construction and extracts them, which provides the reference paradigm and the popularization experience for the curriculum system construction of the professional teaching standard.

It has been a recent trend to use automatic writing evaluation platforms in college English education under the background of COVID-19 pandemic. The study focused on the part of teachers, exploring their acceptance of automatic writing evaluation technology. An overwhelming majority of the teachers interviewed reported positive attitudes to its perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The role of teachers also changes, from lecturers and correctors to facilitators, as they give added weight to the construction of contents and expression of ideas in writing.

The purpose of this study is to deeply discuss the problems of poor Putonghua environment, less teaching hours, a large number of classes and a single teaching equipment in higher vocational colleges in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. This study puts forward the ideas and paths of classroom construction through a series of ways such as course observation and teaching experiment. Therefore, higher vocational colleges should create a good mandarin learning environment, improve the students attention to mandarin teaching, stimulate students interest in learning mandarin, and increase online learning, group mutual training, improve the classroom equipment, improve the mandarin teaching in higher vocational colleges, so as to achieve obvious teaching results, improve the; purpose of the teaching efficiency.

Objective To evaluate the practical effect of lumbar muscle strain function training in college physical education class based on the combination of physical education and medicine pointed out by “Healthy China”, so as to provide reference for improving related intervention measures. A total of 306 students in physical education class were selected, including 44 patients with exercise lumbar muscle strain. All of them received flexibility combination training, which consisted of five parts: lumbar and hip synrotation, waist swinging and hip swinging, quick squat and slow rise, supine leg lifting and “arch bridge” pose. The training lasted for 16 weeks, once a week in class and three times a week in extracurricular homework. The symptoms of lumbar muscle strain, spinal range of motion and sEMG index were compared before and after training. Common strain of lumbar muscles through functional training for college students in physical education in colleges and universities to intervene, for students who did not have symptoms had preventive effect, to have symptoms, can alleviate the strain of lumbar muscles, improve spinal motion and sEMG index level, and improve patients may crowd of prevention and rehabilitation treatment provides a new Angle and means.

Due to the changes in the learning environment caused by the pandemic, primary school art courses can only be given via E-learning mode. This Study carries out research over this teaching practice. Firstly, the writer divided research objects into two groups with different reference teaching materials respectively, then made a contrast on overall works effects between the two groups. Comprehensive evaluation was performed on E-learning education in the end with corresponding research feed backs and suggestions, affirming the positive significance for bringing the elements of Chinese traditional lacquer into class and providing effective reference for future E-learning art teaching of primary school stage.

The aim of the present study was to determine the desire to study, students of public and free universities in Tehran. In terms of practical purpose and in terms of information gathering method, it is descriptive research of causal-comparative type. The socio-statistics in this research included all students of public and free universities in Tehran in the academic year of 2019-2019. A sample size of 240 people (120 students from public universities and 120 students from Islamic Azad University) was selected using available sampling method. As a result of the analysis of the findings, there is a significant difference between the desire to study, students of public and private universities at the level (P<0.01, F=232/273). Therefore, it is concluded that the desire to study is significantly high among the students of public universities.Keywords: Six Sigma, multi-criteria evaluation, key success factors.

Emma Watson, who was appointed as goodwill ambassador for UN women in 2014, delivered a speech in the “He for She” campaign to promote gender equality, receiving positive response from the world. Transitivity system is important in ideational function. Being a major discourse analysis model, it has been widely used in the analysis of literature and news context. Taking the transitivity system as a theoretical framework, the thesis conducts a transitivity analysis of the speech in “He for She” campaign 2014 through a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, divides the clauses of the speech into different transitivity process types, carries out qualitative analysis on the statistical data, and then verifies the feasibility and practicability of applying transitivity theory to analyze speech discourse. With the data analysis, there are some findings: Emma mainly used material processes in her speech to describe her experience objectively; through the employment of mental processes, Emma expresses her perceptions of the word “feminism” to strike a chord with audience; the speaker calls listeners’ attention to feminism by choosing appropriate types of transitive processes to significantly improve the persuasiveness of speech.

The study assessed leadership styles of women in educational leadership positions in Ghanas Ahafo Region in the Tano North Municipality. This was a qualitative study that adopted a case study design. The purposive sampling technique was used to select 15 females in positions of educational leadership. Ten of the Female Head teachers were interviewed while 5 were engaged in the focus group discussion. The data was analysed under emergent themes. This study found that women in educational leadership positions assume the democratic leadership style in their administration even though they make use of autocratic leadership style at times. This study established that situations under which these leadership styles were demonstrated were mainly driven by need for collaboration, consensus building and urgent decision-making. Also, it emerged from the study that the kind of leadership style adopted by women in leadership positions were influenced by factors which include their personality traits, organizational structure of the school, level of experience in leadership and personal determination. The study recommends that female heads should actively combine leadership styles for effective leadership. Again, the Ghana Education Service should institute mentorship scheme tailored towards female leaders in education to hone their capabilities and enhance their leadership development.

Metaphor is originally perceived as a rhetorical device in discourse. In 1980, Lakoff and Johnson put forward the conceptual metaphor theory and explained metaphor from the cognitive perspective, which become a milestone in metaphor research. According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), conceptual metaphor, in essence, is understanding one kind of thing in terms of another. And it’s not confined just in our language but also in our thought and action. Political speech, in general, aims to convey information, illustrate personal viewpoint or making political decisions, but above all, to persuade the public and encourage them to take actions as the speaker wants. This paper analyze the former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s speech about fighting COVID-19 on April 27th, 2020, and aims to identify the conceptual metaphors adopted in his speech as well as the distribution of them and the functions they realized. Through analysis, War Metaphor, Journey Metaphor, Human Metaphor and Machine Metaphor can be identified in his speech. And these metaphorical expressions are mainly used to facilitate comprehension, evoke resonance and realize persuasive functions.

There are problems of college English translation teaching in China. The translation competence scale from China’s Standards of English Language Ability provides practical and measurable standard for college English translation teaching when facing and exploring these problems. In this paper, we make the exploration of teaching objectives and requirements, curriculum provision, evaluation and testing in college English translation teaching based on translation competence scale from China’s Standards of English Language Ability. In the first place, the emphasis of college English translation teaching turns on how to improve the practical competence of English learners and users. Then, the translation competence scale provides the direction for curriculum provision and teachers should choose and adjust appropriate teaching content. Lastly, it could establish a self-assessment scale for English learners and users beyond the traditional college English evaluation model based on the translation competence scale.

The negotiation between prosecution and defense is the key link between the defendant’s expression of willingness to guilty pleas and punishment accepting, and the final judgment of the judiciary, and it is also the core of Leniency System of Guilty Pleas. The voluntariness and authenticity of the negotiation are the top priorities of the guilty pleas and punishment system. The negotiation mechanism between the prosecution and defense is to ensure the voluntary and authenticity of the negotiation between the defendants and the prosecutors. However, in practice, the negotiation mechanism led by the prosecution exposes the lack of negotiation, and other issues, which violates the legitimate rights and interests of the defendant. Based on the concept of solid prosecution and defense negotiation, this paper focuses on analyzing the problems existing in the current prosecution and defense negotiation to discuss the development mechanism of the prosecution and defense negotiation, in order to provide assistance for the implementation of the leniency system for guilty pleas.

The school cultural environment refers to the school spirit and its cultural life, in addition to the objective existence of the environment, it is also an important form of existence that can infect the thoughts and behaviors of the educated in the school, and is also an important symbol of modern school civilization in the new era. A good school environmental culture can have a subtle impact on students in the school, which is of great significance to help them form the right pursuit of values. Principals, that is, the presidents of a school, have an irreplaceable position and role in the construction of the school’s environmental culture, and the competition between schools is actually a confrontation between the leaders of the principals, taking the medical vocational colleges as an example, clarifying the importance and role of the principals leadership in the construction of school culture is an important basis for optimizing the atmosphere in the school.

College students are a special group, they play an important role in social life, to their correct and effective education, not only can lay the foundation for the future development of the motherland, to provide power support and strength support. However, due to various factors, college students have various psychological problems of different degrees. Due to their imperfect development, poor psychological and social adaptability, college students lack of negative emotions such as self-confidence and heavy self-esteem in their daily life. Bad personality traits can affect their emotional attitude towards their environment and others. Long-term negative treatment or extreme measures to solve these problems will have serious consequences for the individual. Therefore, this paper sets the research object as the interpersonal relationship and behavior of college students under the harsh parenting mode, so it is necessary to discuss whether there is a relevant connection between the two, how to develop and other issues, analyze, evaluate and discuss.

Sociolinguistics is the science of studying the relationship between language and society while advertising language truly and vividly embodies the relationship between language and society. As the product of the development of social and economic life, advertising is inevitably affected by many social factors, such as social change, region, gender, age and so on, which simultaneously highlight its social characteristics. From the four main social characteristics of advertising language, this paper develops the research of advertising language under the perspective of sociolinguistics, which specifically reveals the close relationship between advertising, linguistics and society. This practice is undoubtedly conducive to promoting the win-win situation between advertisers and sociolinguists, that is, promoting advertising effect and at the same time enriching sociolinguistic research.

School infrastructures are critical for effective teaching and learning activities. The poor state of infrastructure assumed a central reason why Nigerian public secondary schools have failed to produce trail blazers in the scientific and technological race. The purpose for this study is to evaluate the effect of infrastructures on learning and teaching activities in public secondary schools Giwa Inspectorate Division (GID). The study adopted a quantitative research survey approach. Findings from the showed that staff rooms, class rooms and are the most available physical infrastructures in public secondary schools under GID with the highest mean score value of 3.61, 3.54 and 3.49 respectively. On the contrary, drains, sickbay, libraries, dining area for students, toilets buildings and assembly halls were identified as majorly unavailable with 60％ of the infrastructures inadequate as majority of the infrastructure assessed have mean value below the cut off mean value of 3.00. Result also revealed that the class rooms, libraries, workshop for vocational education, laboratories and staff rooms/offices were identified as the major school infrastructures that affect teaching and learning activities with the highest mean value of 4.60, 4.47, 4.27, 4.21 and 4.17 respectively. Also, four (4) major effects of school infrastructures on teaching and learning activities, these include; increases teachers’ performance in teaching, improves the effectiveness of teaching and learning, increase basic standards of health for school users and increases the level of students’ understanding. The study revealed that 2 major strategies for Improving School Infrastructure of Public Secondary School Teacher Education in GID, these include; Provision of sufficient classroom buildings and offices (mean=4.43), provision of sufficient fund for periodic maintenance on infrastructures (mean=4.43). Therefore, the study recommended that the schools’ stakeholders should pay more attention to the condition of school infrastructures as it affects learning and teaching activities.

As one of the major themes in Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, the Zone of Proximal Development(ZPD) exerts a far-reaching influence on the field of education and has been widely applied in the second language teaching. Recent years many Chinese scholars have explored the application of ZPD theory in second language acquisition and made many achievements. But little attention has been paid to the application of ZPD theory at the primary education stage. Thus this paper aims to discuss implications of the ZPD theory to secondary school English teaching combining the Curriculum Standard of English (2017).

Undoubtedly, polite languages help individuals enhance interpersonal communication and build a harmonious social relationship. However, countries with different languages and cultures have different ways of polite expression. It is conducive to enhancing cultural exchanges, improving the ability of cross-cultural communication, and ensuring the smooth progress of cross-cultural communication with a deep understanding of the differences and origin of Chinese and English greetings [1]. This paper reviews and summarizes the achievements of the theoretical research of Chinese and western scholars in cross-cultural communication, on how to use the Chinese and English greetings, farewell, compliment and thanks in cross-cultural communication, and analyzes the root of these differences and how to cultivate students’ awareness of the difference between Chinese and Western polite language.

The Chinese government white paper is a formal official document, which reflects the policies, positions and propositions of the Chinese government on major issues. The quality of its translation is related to national image and national interests. Through the analysis of typical cases in Chinese government white paper Chinese Youth in the New Era, this paper summarizes the text characteristics of the white paper, including Chinese idioms, political terms with Chinese characteristics, run-on sentences, parallel structure and metaphor. In addition, this paper discusses the translation strategies of these text characteristics in order to convey the voice of China more accurately and comprehensively, better shape the image of China.

Nowadays, China has become the biggest export country and the second import country in the world, taking a large proportion in the world trade. With the further　development of ecological globalization, especially since China had joined the World Trade Organization, the depth and breadth of opening-door policy have been expanding constantly. China has maintained a close business relationship with other countries and the number of domestic cross border e-commerce companies increased coordinately. Thus why firms are in emergency need of talents with good command of foreign language and business knowledge. Business English, as a new emerging major, had been approved to start undergraduate education by ministry of education in March, 2007. With the invitation of ministry of education, the UIBE(University of International Business and Economics) had drew up National Standard of Teaching Quality for Undergraduate Business English Majors in order to strengthen and regulate the teaching patterns of business English in China’s universities. Although, many scholars had done lots of researches and put up many personal training models according to the local policy features, economic features and students learning abilities, the e-commerce platform rules had always changed because of the fast technology, updated computer software and flexible economic policies. Therefore, traditional English teaching patterns are not profitable in Business English anymore and Business English training modes should keep pace with the society. This essay tried to put up one personal training mode under cross-border e-commerce to make the best full use of school resources and cultivate excellent business English students that conform to the need of enterprise.

This article analyzes the college students’ foreign language learning motivation and achievement. Learning motivation is the subjective factor and internal drive to carry out learning activities, and it is an essential consideration in analyzing the results of students’ performance. Motivation plays the role of motivation and guidance, and students’ endeavors directly impact on grades. Therefore, learning motivation and their endeavors affect students’ academic performance. Through a questionnaire survey, SPSS was used to analyze college students’ foreign language learning motivation and understand the differences between learning motivation and the correlation with foreign language performance. As a result, the desire to go abroad is weakened, but the motivation for personal development or future career is enhanced. So as to grasp contemporary Chinese college students’ English learning motivation and the correlation between foreign language performance and study motivations.

The resent years have seen the increasing development of interlanguage pragmatic competence which is the call in the modern world. The present researches, however, still leave us an incomplete picture for the instruction of English as foreign language (EFL) learners’ pragmatic competence. The paper aims to explore pragmatic competence condition among learners who generally take English as a foreign language in China and provide practicable suggestions for its instruction. A review of the past studies demonstrated that pragmatic competence includes pragmalingustic competence (PC) and sociopragmatic competence (SC), since Chinese students pay much attention to the grammatical knowledge of a language, the article intends to focus on discussing SC situation of Chinese second language learners and explore the effects of explicit/implicit instruction on the development of pragmatic competence through the exploration of speech acts. Pragmatic competence questionnaire is adopted which are frequently seen in our daily oral discourse completion(ODC). The finding reveals that although our participants (N=36) have learned English for more than 8 years, their foreign language pragmatic competence still needs to be significantly enhance in speech appropriateness and connotation meaning comprehension. Besides, students in English majors show higher competence than those in non-English majors, female students present better ability of speech acts than male, but more specifically, female students major in non-English demonstrate poor pragmatic ability than male in the same group. Furthermore, English-majored learners whose pragmatic competence level is better appear more preference to implicit instruction than explicit instruction. And female students whose overall competence score is higher regardless of English and non-English majors also present intense interests in implicit instruction than males. In addition, our participants prefer to learn through practice (sociopragmatics) rather than to learn grammar and linguistic features (pragmalinguistics). In the end, EFL learners who have strong intention to pragmatic learning demonstrate great preference to implicit instruction. The present study attempts to shed light on foreign language pragmatic competence education methods and put forward that context-focused, clouded multiple practices, and segmented-time-utilizing integrated teaching and learning methods should be adopted in language learning classrooms.

In school education, exam scores are typically used to evaluate the performance of teaching from teachers and learning from students. In this paper we make further use of exam scores to improve the performance of teaching and learning by exam score clustering. First, we describe a course with exam scores of a class of students and do clustering of courses to find groups of relevant courses. Teachers of relevant courses are then able to collaborate in teaching to improve the teaching performance. Second, we describe a student with exam scores of all courses taken by this student and do a special clustering of students. While ordinary clustering clusters similar students into a group, we treat the distance as the similarity and therefore obtain groups of dissimilar students. Dissimilar students are complementary in their exam scores and they are able to study collaboratively to improve the learning. Experiments are conducted with the students of different majors to test the proposed methods.

Ever since Bassnett and Lefevere proposed “cultural turn”, studies on translators’ subjectivity have launched a hot discussion. Chinese scholar Hu Gengshen put forward that translation is no more than translator’s adaptive selection under the circumstance of translational eco-environment. Meanwhile, translators play a guiding role in the process of translation activity. However, the majority of studies placed more attention on the translated texts and their dissemination, ignoring the influence of the whole translation ecological environment. This paper employs some basic notions in the eco-translatology towards the approaches to translation as adaptation and selection theory as well as translation syllogism. This paper will divide the translation activity into three phrases: pre-translation, during-translation and post-translation. It is to be talked about the translator’s adaptation and selection in different stages to see how the translator makes appropriate choices in words, phrases and sentences to adapt to the whole translation ecosystem and realize the harmony of the whole translation ecosystem.

Since the popularization of the Internet, peoples lives have undergone earth shaking changes. The real-time, cross regional and personalized characteristics of the network make it possible for people to communicate remotely and instantaneously. However, the network is a double-edged sword, which brings many conveniences to people’s lives and also has some potential negative effects that can not be ignored. At present, China has a large number of Internet users. Compared with adults, the proportion of teenagers in the existing Internet users is relatively higher. Taking secondary vocational school students as an example, the Internet has certainly brought many positive effects on their study and life, but at present, most secondary vocational school students have been addicted to the virtual society of the Internet for a long time, and the problem of Internet addiction has become increasingly prominent in their use of the Internet. Problematic network use may cause secondary vocational school students to break away from the real society and have psychological problems such as loneliness and autism. This paper will conduct an in-depth study on the current situation of network use of secondary vocational school students and the correlation between problematic network use and loneliness through visits, literature review and data analysis.

Under the current teaching management system in universities all over the world, it should be said that the above comprehensive and systematic evaluation is relatively comprehensive and objective, and the results should be credible. However, the above evaluation has many dimensions and complicated operation. The evaluation system should be feasible and credible. This paper aims to do some research on this work to compare evaluation of American university and Chinese university. In the end, the author draw enlightenment.

The English translation of culture-loaded words in Chinese has always been a throny problem in the translation studies field, and there is still no consensus on how to translate them into English. Scholars have different opinions on their translation and in many cases will get lost in the selection of translation methods. Since there is no consensus on the translation method, it is better to consider another approach, namely the employment of Peter Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theory, to deal with the translation of culture-loaded words in terms of purpose and effect of translation. When translators pays more attention to the transmission of the original content, they may as well consider the use of semantic translation. When the translator wants to convey the “effect” of the source text, aiming to represent it and make it strongly felt by the target readers, communicative translation is a better choice. The “Jiu ge”, as a very important chapter in the Chu ci, shows the features of Chu culture with its unique cultural perspective and is rich in many culture-loaded words. This paper examines the translation of culture-loaded words in the “Jiu ge” by four translators, including Zhuo Zhenying, Xu Yuanchong, David Hawkes, and Arthur Waley, according to the principles of semantic translation and communicative translation. As such, the paper discusses the feasibility of using this translation theory to solve the translation of culture-loaded words in the “Jiu ge”, attempting to summarize the corresponding translation modes, and promoting the English translation of culture-loaded words in the “Jiu ge”.

With the booming development of China’s “going global” strategy, subtitle translation has also become the focus of translation industry in recent years. However, mistranslations emerge in large numbers endlessly, which cannot promote cross-cultural communication, but will lead to the wrong information of Chinese culture. From the perspective of multimodal discourse analysis, the paper takes the subtitle translation of the city publicity film “Beautiful Jingzhou, Lovingly Pathetic” as the object of study. With the help of Professor Zhang Delu’s theory of multimodal discourse analysis, we will analyze the subtitle translation through four dimensions of culture, context, content and expression. In conclusion, the application of multimodal discourse analysis theory in subtitle translation can provide a new and better way for future research on Chinese subtitle translation.

Attaching great importance to the ideological and political work in colleges and universities, China puts forward the “three-wide education” to guide practice. Through the discussion of the theoretical connotation of “three-wide education” and the thinking of the significance of “three-wide education” in colleges and universities. Combined with the daily practice of Ideological and political work in colleges and universities, this paper tentatively puts forward the path of “three-wide education” in colleges and universities in the new era, so as to provide reference for colleges and universities to better realize the whole staff, whole process and all-round education.

Lifetime physical education refers to a person receiving lifelong physical education and physical exercise. The concept of physical education is not only a course of a school, but should be integrated into the students’ life concept. With the development of teaching concepts and social progress, the importance of physical education in school education is also reflected, but the concept of lifelong physical education has not been recognized by teachers, students and parents. At present, lifelong physical education, as the ultimate goal of China’s current physical education, has positive value in students’ health and overall literacy, and this university physical education needs to be studied in in-depth. Therefore, this paper will discuss the practical problems and related strategies of university physical education reform under the perspective of lifelong physical education.

This article explores the unique construction method of Uglow’s pictures by analyzing the geometrical painting language in Euan Uglow’s paintings and combining the spiritual ideas reflected in the works. The key content of this paper is a detailed analysis of Euan Uglow’s geometric painting language, including his balanced control of geometry and painting, geometric composition of picture composition, geometric analysis of physical details, and subjective generalization. A fusion of color and geometry. Instead of copying classicism in a simple and pure traditional classicist realistic way, Euan Uglow’s uses a contemporary language full of novelty to integrate and transform it.

The arrival of the mobile Internet era has formed a new communication context, media platforms tend to converge, the spread of pan-entertainment culture has deconstructed serious media and lost viewers, traditional mainstream media have not adapted to the new communication situation in the context of fusion and pan-entertainment. This paper takes CCTVs new media program young Summer as an example to analyze the dilemma encountered by mainstream media, explore how mainstream media can complete media transformation in the context of the new era, and the social significance of the program as a successful example.

Filial piety, as a key component in Confucianism, together with other virtues like benevolence, righteousness, rite, etc. plays crucial relationship in Chinese culture, making Chinese nation survive in good and bad times. Books like The Analects of Confucius, Classics of Filial Piety, record and enrich this idea, making filial piety get improved and widely accepted in China. In the new era of socialist society, due to the influence of market economy and western thought, some more attention was paid to earning money and higher social status, causing degradation of certain virtues, especially moral standard. Then, filial piety has its significance in such a situation.

Lingnan art is of great contemporary research value. The integration of Lingnan art into environmental design teaching has become the main subject and general trend of regional design activities. The teaching combines the feasibility analysis of the two modules to explore and practice environmental design, so as to connect, integrate and innovate between Lingnan art and the current environmental design teaching. The exploration and analysis of the combination of design teaching and regional culture will broaden the thinking for environmental design teaching and cultivate innovative design talents for the society.

This paper discusses and analyzes Professor Zeng Shiqiang’s viewpoints on the importance of the interpersonal relationship in Chinese management, its characteristics, and how to build up a harmonious interpersonal relationship in order to be successful for the company in fierce competition. The purpose of the paper is to present some philosophical thoughts and viewpoints on the importance and ethical interpersonal relationship in the Chinese style management to the world in order to let the world know China better. The discussion is carried out from the following three aspects: the importance of flexible interpersonal relationship in the Chinese management, how to achieve mutualism ethic relationship in a manner of individuality in collectivity, and the principle of finding the reasonable “middle course” to have the interpersonal harmony achieved.

Through sorting out the current situation of the teaching mode of translation courses for business English majors in general colleges and universities, we point out the problems of unclear course orientation and objectives, lack of professional translation teaching materials, unreasonable course settings and unreasonable teaching methods, and propose improvement strategies in terms of teaching mode, teachers and teaching materials.

The article observes and analyzes the language literacy of hosts in radio and television dialect programs from both linguistic and communication perspectives. The emergence and flourishing of dialect news programs is the result of language competition and language harmony resonance and the active pursuit of preserving language resources. In the dialect news programs, there are four problems in the language literacy of the hosts: insufficient knowledge of theory and policy; language style off the elegant and tend to vulgar; language performance ignoring the skills; lack of screening of language components. Therefore, it is necessary for the hosts of dialect news programs to adhere to the principle of news accuracy, constantly enrich the knowledge base of theory and policy, strive to grasp the scale of “elegance” and “vulgarity” of language and programs, and scientifically compose dialect expressions. Only in this way can we effectively expand the coverage of local dialects, enhance the local compatibility of dialects in news programs, and truly realize the effective combination of dialects and news.

English as a language discipline attaches great importance to the comprehensive ability of students to listen, speak, read and write, of which practical English is one of the compulsory courses for college students, and it is the main direction of today’s social development, looking at the current situation of English teaching in China’s colleges and universities, there is still a lot of room for development in practical teaching, and theory, teaching methods and professional skills need to be further expanded. In this regard, this paper starts from the comprehensive demand of society for English teaching for college students, focuses on discussing the demand for practical English talents in today’s society, and proposes corresponding optimization strategies on this basis.

This study aimed to determine English foreign language (EFL) teachers’ perception on information and communication technology (ICT) and the competency in using ICT as well as the relationship between their competency on the use of ICT and the academic performance of students as perceived by the teachers and students with the end view of developing an instructional model. With a quantitative research, it is found that EFL teachers in Changde hold a manifested level of positive attitudes towards using ICT and they use different types of ICT means to certain extent, and teachers’ ICT competency is positively correlated with the students’ academic performance in EFL. Based on the results, recommendations are made.

With the continuous recommendation of teaching reform work, the society and enterprises at this stage put forward higher requirements for the comprehensive literacy of college students, the traditional teaching mode pays more attention to the cultivation of theoretical knowledge of college students, can not adapt to the current development needs, interdisciplinary infiltration teaching is a new type of teaching mode, can achieve the integration of different disciplines, is conducive to cultivating more comprehensive talents, the current teaching mode has been applied in a number of specialties and disciplines. This paper mainly takes art colleges as an example, after clarifying the basic connotation and implementation necessity of interdisciplinary infiltration teaching, after visiting and investigating the current situation of English teaching in this art school, it will conduct in-depth analysis of the current situation of English teaching in this art college, and at the same time construct an interdisciplinary infiltration teaching model between English and art for college students in art colleges and universities through literature review and experience summary, and verify the application effect of the program by evaluating the English, art assessment results and teaching satisfaction rate before and after the implementation of the new teaching. In this way, it provides a certain theoretical and practical basis for the reform of the teaching model of other professional disciplines.

There is a general lack of humanities literacy knowledge, especially media literacy, among foreign language majors in colleges and universities. This deficiency is mainly reflected in the following aspects: the lack of media literacy education subject; single function of media information utilization; unclear understanding of media characteristics. We should strengthen the concept of media literacy education, implement the goal of professional training, reform the content of professional education, make full use of the function of media information, establish the concept of media critical discourse, and improve the innovative ability of professional students.

As an important part of university campus media, campus radio used to play an important role in education, propaganda and service. At present, campus radio is facing the competition and impact of media inside and outside the university, and it must actively improve its competitiveness in many aspects, such as communication concept, vision, system improvement and development awareness, so as to get out of the survival dilemma.

Under the wave of muti-cultural exchange, a large number of movies are introduced to China from overseas, and Chinese movies are in urgent need of going to the global market. A good movie title can quickly catch the audience’s attention so the company can seize more market share. However, in the process of translating Chinese film titles, the factors of cultural differences between China and the West are easily ignored, resulting in the failure to accurately convey the message and connotation of the film to the audience. By the method of literature research, this paper finds that there are cultural differences between China and the West in terms of values, expressions, religions and communication, which will cause difficulties in translation. This paper researches how to use the methods of literal translation, transliteration, free translation and creative translation to translate Chinese film titles into English from a cross-cultural communication perspective.

Taking the development of aesthetic education in Guangdong Province and the Non-dance Majors of Guangdong Baiyun College as an example, this paper studies whether the dance art is seriously absent in the dance aesthetic education in Colleges, what is the function of dance aesthetic education, and how to carry out the activities, so as to provide practical suggestions for the value orientation of dance aesthetic education in colleges in Guangdong. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the absence of the value orientation and aesthetic education in the current college education system, explains the serious lag in the construction of dance courses for non-dance Majors, discusses the role of dance in enhancing students awareness of all-round development, and puts forward the corresponding mechanisms for specific implementation as follow: scientifically and reasonably setting up dance aesthetic education courses, building dance aesthetic education environment in colleges, carrying out elegant art on campus and the second dance classes, making clear the talent training objectives, so as to provide theoretical support for the value orientation and implementation innovation of dance aesthetic education in colleges.

Virtual simulation technology breaks the shortcomings of traditional experimental teaching and it is widely used in morphological experiments. It is a new and efficient teaching method. This paper discusses the current situation and shortcomings of virtual simulation experimental teaching platform in medical college.

In the context of China’s strategy to build an innovative country, this paper analyses the current situation of industry-education-creation integration in foreign countries, rooted in the connotation of the integration of industry, education and creation. At present, the main means of integrating education and industry in ethnic minority areas in China are “title classes”, “industrial colleges” and “factory-college integration”. Its main problems are: the unilateral enthusiasm of colleges, the low willingness of enterprises to cooperate, the inconsistent aims of enterprises and colleges, and the fact that enterprises exploit students as regular employees but do not pay them as regular employees. In view of the real problems such as low integration of industry-education, weak comprehensive qualities and abilities of senior vocational construction talents in ethnic areas, low matching degree with enterprise job requirements, separation of dual-innovation education and professional teaching, and weak employability and entrepreneurship ability of senior vocational construction talents in ethnic areas, this paper puts forward the path of training high-quality technical and skilled talents with integration of industry, education and creation in ethnic minority areas in the light of the current situation of industry-education-creation integration.

Network has both advantages and disadvantages to the penetration of school education, which helps students to obtain learning resources and opens students’ horizons, but also makes students get more temptation from the Internet. Because secondary vocational students are at the critical period of the formation of the three views, they are full of curiosity about the outside world and lack the ability to resist temptation, and it is easy to be addicted to the Internet. The correct and effective social support is conducive to creating a good network environment, guiding middle school students’ network behavior, correctly understanding the virtuality of the network, and maintaining a high degree of self-discipline when using the network. At present, there is still a more in-depth analysis and discussion of the problematic network of secondary vocational education students in the social support aspect. Therefore, this paper will discuss the causes and the relationship between social support from the overview of problematic network use, and then analyze the strategy of problematic network social support use for secondary vocational education students.

The purpose of the study was to examine student teachers on supervisors’ role in practical physical education lessons in the Colleges of Education in Ghana. Quantitatively the study adopted descriptive survey as research design. The population of the study consisted of 1,180, respondents selected from OLA College of Education, Wiawso College of Education, Wesley College of Education, Enchi College of Education, Komenda College of Education and Fosu Colleges of Education which comprised 613 men, and 567 women. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the colleges and students’ teachers. The main instrument for data collection was a questionnaire. The test-retest and face validity techniques were used to establish the validation and reliability of the instrument. Data for this study was analysed based on frequencies and percentages. The study revealed that, the teaching practice unit should see to it that the right strategies for supervision were to be used by supervisors. It was also indicated that the issue of being supervised by non-subject-specialists, the teaching practice unit should ensure that supervisors who are sent for supervisions have enough knowledge of the subject-matter of the field of study. It is recommended that the teaching practice unit should see to it that right strategies for supervision are used by supervisors. It is also recommended that issue of being supervised by non-subject specialists, the teaching practice unit should ensure that supervisors who are sent for supervision have enough knowledge of the subject- matter of the field of study.

The study was designed to assess supervision of Social Studies teachers in public basic junior high schools in the Aowin municipality in the Western North Region of Ghana. Mixed method approach was used. Stratified, simple random and quota sampling techniques were used to select two hundred and ten (210) respondents for the study. Questionnaires and interviews were used to gather the data The quantitative data entry and analysis was done by using the SPSS version 22 software package and the qualitative data was also analysed by the use of the interpretative method based on the themes arrived at during the data collection. The study revealed that instructional supervision promotes effective coaching, mentoring and training of teaching on the profession. The study also indicated that effective supervision enhances reinforcement of relationship between the headteacher, School Improvement Support Officer (SISO) and teachers during instructional supervision; making teaching pleasurable and an enjoying practice. Appointment of Supervisors by the Municipal Director of Education should be based on seasoned heads and office staffs with vast experience and academic qualifications. It is therefore recommended that the Municipal Education Directorate should try as much as possible to appoint competent and experienced teachers as SISOs. Also, intensive training workshops should be organized to them to impact the needed professional advice and guidance that enhance teacher growth and development.

The objective of the study was to examine the developmental implications of chieftaincy disputes in the Juaso traditional area of Ghana. Qualitatively, an interpretive research paradigm was adopted for the study. Purposive, Snowballing, Convenient, and Maximal Variation Strategy techniques were employed to select twelve (12) respondents for the study. Chiefs and the queen mother in the community who are rich of information as far as chieftaincy dispute in Juaso is concerned were purposively sampled. Snowballing and Maximal Variation Strategy were employed to sample sub-chiefs, royals, reverend ministers, natives and dwellers for the study. The two (2) main instruments used for data collection were semi-structured interview and observation. The data were analysed into different categories and subsequently developed into themes by making use of an inductive data analysis. Themes and categories were then used to present the research findings based on the research question. The study indicated in Akan adage that ‘‘bɔɔla so gya, ani no adum nanso na aseɛ no asɔ kɔɔ’’ to wit, the fire on the refuse dump may appear to be off at the surface but beneath it may be hot coals ready to explode at the least aeration. This situation does not promote peaceful coexistence that can propel development. Development is the shared responsibility of all. It can be initiated by the Central Government through the District Assemblies, traditional leaders of communities, individual members of communities, non-governmental organizations and foreign bodies. It is recommended that the role of Government (the state) is very crucial in the management, resolution, transformation and peace building. As such, the government should be seen as an important stakeholder in the resolution of the conflict. Government should resource and empower third party mediation efforts by the Committee of Eminent Chiefs to resolve the cultural aspect of the dispute while the state institutions and Civil Society Organizations are also resourced and empowered to resolve the criminal, social, economic and other aspects. Government must build the trust of the entire community without taken sides in all these strategies.

The purpose of the study was to examine factors that influence girl students’ choice of elective Visual Arts Subjects. The study adopted descriptive research design. The population of the study consisted of senior high schools, teachers, and students from Ashanti Region. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the schools, teachers and students for the study. The two main instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and observation. The data gathered from the observations during the period were transferred into the word processed document on computer and used to support data collected for study. The questionnaire and the observations were collated into individual reports. The study indicated that there is gap between boys and girls in Visual Arts education, leading to the inability for majority of girls to match the boys boot for boot in practical lessons. It is recommended that, Visual Arts female teachers should practice their art to encourage their students to be confident by infusing the “can-do-spirit” in them to help them develop the drive to achieve and believe that achievement is possible for them. Teachers should also be encouraged to redefine their attitudes towards their profession and to develop love, passion and commitment for effective teaching and learning. It is also recommended that, more female Visual Arts teachers should be employed by the GES so as to provide the female students with more than enough female role models in other to help boost their confidence up.

There are an abundance of study focusing on China’s Standards of English Language Ability (CSE) during the past ten years (2012-2021). According to the number and chronological distribution of papers on CSE China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), there are three stages during the whole development of the scale at present. Adopting 82 papers on CSE of Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) from CNKI as the data source, and analyzing the contents of these papers by applying the ROST Content Mining 6 software, it can be found that there are generally five research hot spots in the past decade according to the high-frequency words. That is, the first hot spot is the research on theory and construction of CSE; the second hot spot is the research on validity of CSE; the third hot spot is the research on application levels and objects of CSE; the fourth hot spot is the research on practice of CSE and the last one is the research on alignment or linking various English tests to CSE. Besides, the research on competence of listening, spoken English, reading, English writing and translation is new trend for CSE.

The objective of the study was to examine supervisors in assessing student teachers in practical physical education lessons in the Colleges of Education in Ghana. Quantitatively the study adopted descriptive survey as research design. The population of the study consisted of 1,180, respondents selected from OLA College of Education, Wiawso College of Education, Wesley College of Education, Enchi College of Education, Komenda College of Education and Fosu Colleges of Education which comprised 613 men, and 567 women. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the colleges and students’ teachers. The main instrument for data collection was a questionnaire. The test-retest and face validity techniques were used to establish the validation and reliability of the instrument. Data for this study was analysed based on frequencies and percentages. The study also revealed that clinical supervision produces a self-teacher who analysis and seek solutions to his or her own teaching problems with the help of another professional. It was also concluded that clinical supervision emphasizes teacher growth in that the supervisor talks with the teacher as a colleague to identify and clarify problems and observes the teacher in a classroom situation to solve the problems identified. It is recommended that the teaching practice unit should ensure that supervisors who are sent for supervision have enough knowledge of the subject-matter of the field of study to enable them to provide useful feedback.

In recent years, with the continuous deepening of my country’s education reform, education management in colleges and universities has also made corresponding progress and achievements, but new challenges have also emerged. How to flexibly adjust and improve the traditional education management model and fully implement the “hard and soft” education management model is worthy of continuous discussion and practice in major universities. First, this article explains the basic definition and connotation of the combination of rigidity and flexibility, and provides theoretical support for the construction of the university education management model of rigidity and flexibility. Positive meaning; third, provide corresponding development suggestions for colleges and universities to build a rigid and flexible educational management model, so as to promote the better integration of new management concepts into the educational management of colleges and universities.

With the continuous attention of the state to education management and the frequent improvement of policies, no matter which stage of education needs self-transformation and self-innovation in the new situation. The university education management model has also become the top priority among many things in the university, and the traditional education management model has long been unable to meet the needs of proper college management. In this regard, this paper mainly discusses how to innovate and develop the university education management model based on the new situation, and how to make reasonable improvements to the management content, means and models from the perspective of students.

Nowadays, as the main front of talent training, colleges and universities have a direct impact on the level of talent training. Based on the new era, it is important to innovate education management with innovative educational concepts as the guiding ideology, so it is necessary to fully consider the relationship between schools and students, explore potential problems in the process of education management, and actively solve them with innovative educational concepts.

Arendt proposes that evil appears in the form of “mediocrity”, and in the current educational environment, it is easy to see that there is a phenomenon of teachers obeying the educational system every day, and when they acquiesce to factors in the system that are not conducive to student development, they accept them all without thinking, to a certain extent, jeopardising the development of students and thus creating the “evil of mediocrity” in teachers. This paper firstly discusses the origins of the concept of “the evil of mediocrity” and explores the core of what makes mediocrity an evil. Secondly, it discusses the “non-thinking” and “inaction” aspects of the “evil of mediocrity” that erode the ethical values of the teaching profession and their manifestations. Again, the dangers of the “evil of mediocrity” for teachers are discussed and analysed from the perspective of both teachers and students. Finally, the reasons for teachers’ mediocrity are clarified at the level of the school system and at the level of teachers, and suggestions are made for reflection and transcendence.

The rapid development of microblogs over the past few years has demonstrated their dual value as an information tool and an opinion platform, and their influence on the construction of civil society in many ways. Using this incident as a case study, we analyze the communication process, functions, and potential risks of microblogs based on communication theory and the nature of microblogs, and point out the direction of their future development. Analyzing the communication process, functions, and potential risks of microblogs, and pointing out the direction of their future development.

It is indispensable to improve students’ translation ability in college English teaching. However, in the current college English teaching, there are many problems such as insufficient attention to translation teaching, insufficient research, and outdated teaching methods. With the advancement of science and technology and the rise of the New Liberal Arts education, multi-modal research has become more and more widely used in education. This article discusses the multi-modal theoretical model of college English translation teaching using multiple modals and tools, and proposes three suggestions: designing multi-modal teaching activities, providing multi-modal teaching resources, and creating a multi-modal teaching evaluation system.

In this paper, we explore the process assessment and classroom evaluation mechanism in college mathematics teaching. In the first place, the applications of the process assessment and classroom evaluation mechanism are studied. And we analyze the integration of the process assessment and classroom evaluation mechanism as well as the application of the information technique to the teaching. Then, we further elaborate the dynamic cycle mechanism and the teaching model for process assessment and classroom evaluation mechanism applied in the course of Space Analytic Geometry. Eventually, some problems and suggestions are estimated and discussed. By utilizing the process assessment and classroom evaluation mechanism, it is expected to promote the enthusiasm of study for students and improve the quality of teaching for teachers.

A properly translated film title can not only brings economic benefits to its box office, but also enhances international influence of the film itself. The translation of film title in China has been traditionally linked to subtitle translations. And the rigid quest for loyalty to the original and careless neglect to the function and peculiarity of film titles greatly hinders the translation practice of film titles. Functionalist theories can help to guide and evaluate film title translation. This is illustrated by descriptive analysis of proper and improper translation cases. Emphasis is put on the analysis of the text type and skopos of a film title, the general features observed in film title, and the strategies which may be applied in film title translation.

The medium of instruction (MOI) in the language classroom is always under discussion. In China, parents from upper-class expect their children to receive an elite English education, that is why they send their children to schools where the teachers use English as the medium of instruction (EMI) and students are required to speak English in the school. However, most common students in China enter the public schools, which usually are taught by L1 (Chinese) as MOI in the course of language learning. Hence, which MOI language in the EFL classroom in China should be chosen deserves to be further discussed. This essay will investigate the recruitment requirements for online English teachers of six famous English training schools in China with particular consideration for each schools preference. By investigating the different preference of recruitment requirements, this article intends to show the relationship between the recruitment requirements for English teachers and the target students. After analysing previous studies and the findings, the results indicate that all these training school prefer teachers will proficiency oral English, though the imbalance of L1 and L2 exists in classrooms. Implications will be given for the use of L1 and L2 in China’s online EFL classroom.

Opera is an essential way for Chinese cultural exchange and inheritance. Guangxi local opera has a long history, and each has its characteristics. Cai Diao Opera is one of the great opera repertoires originated in northern Guilin in Ming Qing Dynasties and has become famous all over Guangxi. It has become the most popular opera genre of people. With the popularity of Cai Diao Opera, its formation, evolution, inheritance, and cultural protection have received more and more attention to ensure its further and stable development. Thus, the paper focuses on the formation and development of Cai Diao Opera and analyzes Cai Diao in Liuzhou or Guilin city in terms of time and place. Cai Diao Opera was initially played by solo singing and dance as a duet or a two-man act double-reed. But later, there are more players with stories on the stage performance. The introduction to Cai Diao opera is an excellent chance to lay a cultural foundation for the Chinese nation’s cultural rejuvenation and flourishment, telling the world a good story about China.

This paper set out to analyse the impoliteness strategy in a Chinese talk show “The Jin Xing Show”. The discourse was transcribed and translated into English. Culpeper’s (1996) impoliteness strategy was used as the main reference for data analysis. The use of one of the most cited impoliteness frameworks like Culpeper’s (1996) for this paper will shed light on impoliteness in Mandarin discourse and lay the path for more research in this topic.

People form sociopolitical values throughout their life cycle through different agents of political socialization, including family, media and education. This paper is motivated to propose influence of strategic radio programmes such as ‘Orotonlo’ on Oluyole FM and ‘State Affairs’ on Splash FM as agents of sociopolitical Opinion Moulding focusing on Ibadan South-East Local Government Area of Oyo State. The paper adopted Agenda Setting Theory as the building block on which the study was laid. This study adopted quantitative research design using questionnaire. Simple random sampling was employed to select 100 residents leaving around Ring-Road and Challenge areas of the local government to form the sample size for the paper. The findings of this study shows that majority of the respondents have listened to State Affairs on splash FM and ‘Orotonlo’ on Oluyole FM. These two programmes have shaped their opinion on sociopolitical issues. This paper therefore, recommended that these two programmes should keep on running as they contribute to the opinion moulding of the society and broadcast programmes both radio and television should maintain high level of professionalism and ethnic standard in carry out programmes aim at moulding the opinion of their target audiences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every domain of the world including the education. The main objective of this research is to analyse and study the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of the students and courses. The analysis is performed based on three category of teaching mode namely face to face, face to face combined with online and completely online. The appropriate statistical tool, testing of hypothesis using ANOVA table is applied for this research work. Three salient factors of this analysis is to compare the students’ performance based on the different mode of teaching for all target students, course wise impact of teaching and students who have come across all the 3 modes of teaching. Analysis of student’s performance is imperative at this stage, since this helps to bring out fruitful outcome with respect to education.

Covid-19 outbreak caused unexpected repercussion in the world. In the beginning, all people are placed passively due to the complete novelty of the endemic. Panic feelings enclose the world while after a heft of measures adopted by the government, the disaster present a positive phenomenon but still a ghost glooming the world humans. The paper opts to exclusively explore collectivism in China through incorporating satisfactory pandemic control effects compared to some out-of-control western countries. However, if we investigate the original root cause of such different results, it is easily to capture the cultural difference and its traditional embedment. Furthermore, although China’s forefathers put forward collectivism in an obscure method. The collectivism custom takes its root in generations’ blood. Triandis (1995) based on Hofstede cultural dimensions further made partition of individualism as well as collectivism formed as horizontal and vertical. The article attempts to two types collectivism in among Chinese youth and middle aged persons as they have forming stable value system but also easily connecting with the changing information world. The essay makes conclusion that Chinese people are transferring to horizontal collectivism but vertical collectivism plays a larger role in pandemic control. Therefore, our writing can be labeled as a reference for cultural construction if emergent events arrive.

Digital technology and network information technology are developing rapidly, and the barriers between various media no longer exist, resulting in new media. The emergence and development of new media has greatly promoted the deep integration of traditional media and new media. In the development of media integration, on the one hand, it has brought unprecedented changes to the new network media industry, on the other hand, it also urges colleges and universities to train new media talents more actively. Based on this, this paper analyzes in detail the network and new media professional training path under the media fusion visual threshold for reference.

The objective of the study examined the extent to which parenting styles influenced television viewing habits and the academic performance of students. A population of 1740 (JHS) 2 were used with a sample size of 310 students. It was a quantitative approach that used a cross-sectional study. The questionnaire comprising of 17 statements was used to solicit opinions from students between the ages of 11 years to 20 years on a five point likert scale. Five hypotheses were generated for the study and were tested using Anova, T-test and Regression. Students Grade Point Average (GPA) in four subjects (English, Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies) was used. The study revealed that the relationship between parenting styles on TV viewing habits and academic performance of students became clear in the end that in Abokobi and Madina in the Ga East municipality, all the parenting styles were in existence. The study established from the analysis that, parenting styles had a significant effect on GPA. The authoritative parenting style was found to influence academic performance positively while the authoritarian and permissive parenting styles affected academic performance negatively. Furthermore, parenting styles had no effect on the time students spent in watching TV. It can be said that when the effects of time spent watching TV was controlled; parenting styles still had an effect on academic performance. The analysis showed that the more authoritarian parents were, the more the students’ academic performance suffered. The authoritative parenting style was found to have the best impact on students’ academic performance. It is recommended that Ghana Education Service (GES) should collaborate with Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Metropolitan Municipal District Chief, Executives (MMDCEs) to organise seminars, workshops and symposiums to educate parents on the effects of watching television by schooling children all time.

Under the guidance of blended teaching theory, and based on the information multiple characteristics of “Internet+”, this paper explores the deep integration of business English and “Internet+” with a smart teaching model. It conducts a survey in the coastal universities and colleges by designing a survey questionnaire on the status quo of traditional business English teaching. A case study of the new teaching model is also applied. By focusing on innovations in teaching media, teaching process, students’ cross-cultural awareness development, and teachers’ professionalism, construction of this teaching model is necessary and feasible as well. The “Internet+” teaching has continuous challenges in the implementation process and needs continuous improvement to allow learners to form an awareness of “Internet+” and actively use the “Internet+” learning platform for learning.

The purpose of the study was to examine the causes and effects of absenteeism in the early grades schools in Ghana. The research design used for this study was a descriptive design and the type of research is action research. The population of the study covered the class teacher of basic two (2) and some of the pupils in the class. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select the respondents for the study. The main instruments for data collection in the study were observation, questionnaires, and interviews. The results were presented using percentages and frequencies. The study revealed that absenteeism has serious academic set backs on the performance of both the pupils and the teacher. The study also concluded that the inability of some parents to provide their children with their basic needs normally pushes them to engage in various forms of activities to raise money to fend for themselves. The economic background of the parents also contributes to the pupils frequent absence, as well as their frequent absenteeism. It is recommended that the District Assembly and the Traditional Council team up and pass a bye-law to retrain children out of school hours on trading during school hours on market days as well as other activities such as farming, film and video shows that are carried out at the expense of their schooling. It is also recommended that guidance and counseling coordinators should therefore collaborate with teachers in basic schools for the purpose of counseling the pupils as well as parents and guardians.

Social Studies educators increasingly support the use of Computer-Assisted Instruction to transform Social Studies Education from a traditional mode to a more constructivist, student-centered, and active mode. This study experimented the impact of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on students’ performance in Social Studies. Learning package was examined. The study was a quasi-experimental research involving a pretest and posttest. The sample for the study comprised 40 first year students of Bawku Senior High in Bawku Municipal Assembly in Upper East Region of Ghana. The students’ pre-test and post test scores were analysed using independent -samples t-test. The findings of the study showed that the performance of students exposed to CAI (experimental group) were better than their counterparts exposed to the conventional classroom instruction (control group). Based on the research findings recommendations were made on the need to develop relevant CAI packages for teaching Social Studies in Ghanaian Senior High Schools.

The study adopted the Explanatory Mixed Method approach to answer the research question of the study. The population of the study consist of six thousand and thirty (6030) students from The Tema (TEMASCO), Chemu, Methodist Day (MEDASS), Presbyterian (TEMA PRESEC), Our Lady of Mercy (OLAMS) and Manhean (MANSEC). Senior High Schools in Tema metropolis of Ghana. Stratified, simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to sample three hundred (300) students fifty (50) from each of the six (6) selected schools. The main instruments used for data collection were Structured Questionnaire and Semi-Structured Interview guide. The quantitative data entry and analysis was done by using the SPSS software package version 23. The data was edited, coded and analysed into frequencies, percentages with interpretations. The qualitative data was analysed with the aid of Atlas.ti 7.5.18 version and use of the interpretative method based on the themes arrived at during the data collection. The study revealed that students aspired for careers in various fields of their programmes, i.e. Science, Home Economics, General Arts, Visual Arts, and Business. Their career aspiration was formed during childhood and crystallised into actual specific careers over time. They were motivated by their interest, abilities, attitudes and parental demands. If career information is made available for students to consider their strength and weakness, participants would have a better appreciation of the field of career. It is recommended that, the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Tema Educational Directorate and the Head teachers of the sampled schools should organize career guidance and outreach programmes for their students on the various career types, entry requirement/qualifications and available institutions for training and sponsorship to fully educate the students on the various aspects of their aspired careers and the corresponding demands.

Curriculum ideological and political work is the new requirement of the CPC Central Committee to strengthen ideological and political work in colleges and universities under the background of the new era, which has been officially included in the political education system of colleges and universities. Carrying out ideological and political education with the help of professional curriculum teaching has become the necessary professional skills for college teachers. “Network visual Marketing” is a very important professional skills course of e-commerce, is a set of practice and application in one course; Based on the teaching of Network Visual Marketing, this paper discusses how to carry out curriculum ideological and political reform in professional courses from the aspects of curriculum status quo, curriculum ideological and political construction ideas, curriculum ideological and political implementation, in order to provide a powerful reference for the ideological and political construction of e-commerce professional courses.

With the wave of globalization, the language learning has been become a must by which language learner can facilitate multi-cultural communication. However, many factors exert negative influence on EFL learners’ achievements in China due to cultural difference and students’ inner elements. The paper is to make research on how Hofstede’s cultural dimensions affect learners’ self-efficacy and it further has remarkable effects on their language accomplishments. Qualitative methods such as interview, document analysis method and inductive method will be adopted in order to test students’ individual self-efficacy level and its influence on learning fruits. What’s more, the article makes full use of questionnaire to survey students’ self-efficacy and their willingness to participate in English-spoking to find out cultural dimensions’ effects on language learning. It can be concluded that students with high level of self-efficacy are more willing to take part in spoking communication. Besides, uncertainty avoidance and collectivism have great impact on learners’ self-efficacy and learning performance. Therefore, the paper will be as a constructive reference for promoting learning accomplishments in educational sphere.

The main objective of the research is to find the level of nutritional knowledge of students of Enchi College of Education Demonstration Basic School. The population for this study consisted of all the Junior High School (JHS) students of Enchi College of Education Demonstration School in the Aowin municipality in the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana. A random sampling technique was used select sample size of 60 respondents from the school made up of 35 boys and 25 girls was selected for the survey. The main instrument for data collection was Close-ended questionnaire, and eight (8) items were used to explore the level of nutritional knowledge of students of Enchi College of Education Demonstration Basic School. It was concluded that students have fair knowledge and a common knowledge base on the concept nutrition that guide their food choices. It is recommended that, teachers of nutrition component of the subject basic design and technology should be asked to intensify the knowledge impartation of pupils in the basic schools.

The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into education had become very necessary in this 21st century. An assessment of Information and Communication Technology usage among teacher trainees in selected Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana was the main focus of this study. Descriptive research was the design for study. The population of 120 mentee teacher-trainees were sampled from three colleges of Education for the study. The study employed the multistage sampling techniques. Convenient, purposive, Simple random and stratified sampling techniques were used to select the three colleges of Education and the third year group of the three (i.e. two single sex and one mixed) out of the eight Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region. The main instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The study revealed that, most mentee teacher trainees had computer training prior to enrolling into the colleges and can use the computer to type letters or document. Teacher trainees surf the internet to do their work but the hours they spend per week is less than that of the average internet user. It is recommended that all the teachers in the colleges of education should be given refresher courses in ICT use, at least once a year. This will boost teachers confidence in the use of ICT facilities in their teaching so they can help their students to develop ICT skills.

With the development and popularization of school-based curriculum, more and more schools have started to develop school-based art curriculum. Dongyang wood carving is a famous national intangible cultural heritage. In order to maximize the use of Dongyangs local cultural resources, it is of great significance to develop school-based curriculum in primary and secondary schools to promote the preservation and transmission of Dongyang wood carvings. After analyzing the cultural characteristics of Dongyang wood carving, this paper provides a theoretical analysis of the feasibility of a school-based curriculum for Dongyang wood carving.

Final year teacher-trainees’ conception of COVID-19 has become indispensable since the ideal practices needed to inculcate in students to become responsible local and global citizens. The main purpose of this study was to intensify the COVID-19 awareness, find students background leading to infection and to practice supportive measures to overcome the disease. The population consists of all final year trainee teacher students of SDA College of Education Asokore-Koforidua. Purposive and convenient sampling techniques were used to select a total number four hundred and ten (410) students and the college respectively. The main instruments used for data collection were interview guide and questionnaire. The quantitative data entry and analysis was done by using the SPSS software package. The data was edited, coded and analysed into frequencies, percentages, weighted mean with interpretations. The qualitative data was analysed by the use of the interpretative technique based on the themes arrived at during the observation of mentees while they teach in a classroom setting. The themes were related to the research questions. The study revealed that, 0.3 percent of the respondents have coughing problems, 0.8 percent also exhibited cold and flu, 0.5 percent had difficulty in breathing, all these symptoms exhibited by respondents are underlying factors that could lead to the acquisition of COVID-19 virus. It is recommended that, the school should have a doctor or nurse who could be educating students on their health status and the need for seeing a doctor occasionally in order to avoid health problems. It is also recommended that, School management should ensure that student observe protocols especially those who do not believe COVID-19 is real

With the advent of the era of big data, it has had an irreplaceable and important impact on all walks of life in the development of society, especially in the field of education, which has profoundly affected the form of education classroom presentation and promoted education management to continue to move towards information and modernization. In this regard, this article analyzes the characteristics of university education management and management status based on the background of the big data era, and proposes relevant measures to build a professional education management team, improve the level of big data management, and build a university sharing platform, and continue to promote the direction of university education management. Development in the direction of informatization, modernization and intelligence.

The purpose of the study was to examine the use of code-switching as a device to achieve the communicative functions in Fante-English radio discourse in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The population of the study included all the fifty-five (55) radio presenters in four (4) radio stations in Twin-City Sekondi-Takoradi. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the four (4) Frequency Modulation (FM) stations. The instruments employed for collecting data were audio-tape recording and questionnaire. The study established that radio presenters code-switch when there is topic shift, because sometimes they find it difficult in translating a word, an idea or a concept from English to Fante. Again, radio broadcasters code-switch because sometimes they forget the required word to be used in Fante.

The objective of the study was to examine the challenges that face NGOs in promoting democratic good governance in the Sunyani Municipality in Ghana. A qualitatively, interpretative design was adopted to evaluate challenges that face NGOs in promoting democratic good governance in the Sunyani Municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was used to select all the twenty-four (24) respondents. The main instrument used for data collection was open-ended interview guide. The study concludes that the role NGOs play be exercised with caution since a good number of the sampled respondents claimed they had never heard about the activities of these NGOs. The study also revealed that, NGOs could have done better in covering a wider scope of the Municipality but they are limited by finances, human resource capacity, logistics and misappropriation of funds on the part of the leadership. It is therefore recommended that, NGOs to adopt more pragmatic methods and approaches to raising funds and mobilising resources both internally and externally to effectively undertake their activities. Internally, NGOs may involve themselves more in income generating activities such as farming, running of restaurants, internet services and retail outlets, the profit of which should be used to finance NGOs activities. It is also recommended that, NGOs must deploy staff with the requisite skills as well as having a good public reputation to raise funds. The expertise is needed to plan when, where and how to seek for funds from corporate bodies as well as international institutions.

The people-oriented educational concept should be fully quoted in the process of education management in colleges and universities, which is an important basis for whether we can implement the education management work of colleges and universities and flexibly manage students. At present, in terms of the shortcomings in the existing education management work of colleges and universities, the management methods and educational management contents of most colleges and universities are not humane enough. In this regard, this paper first expounds the basic meaning and characteristics of the humanistic education concept, focuses on the shortcomings in the process of practicing the humanistic education concept in Chinas colleges and universities, and puts forward corresponding development suggestions in combination with the development background of the times, in order to better improve the quality of university education management.

The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of household conditions on academic performance of Junior High School Students in the Upper West Akim District. The study adopted the quantitative approach and specifically used the descriptive survey design. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used for the selection of schools and respondents for the study. Questionnaire and School Based Assessment (SBA) records were used by the researchers as instruments for data collection. The Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) software version 22 was used for descriptive and inferential analysis of data gathered. The study indicated that, parents who ensure that their children study at home, provide their educational needs, discuss their progress with their teachers and attend PTA meetings regularly have children who perform better academically as compared to children whose parents do not see to it that their children study at home, provide the educational needs of their children, discuss their children’s learning with teachers and attend PTA meeting regularly. It is recommended that, adult literacy should be enhanced by government to improve the level of education of parents to improve participation of parents in children’s education.

The objective of the study was to evaluate teachers Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in Religious and Moral Education Curriculum in Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) municipality of Ghana. The study adopted the descriptive survey design using quantitative and qualitative methods. Methods were combined both for triangulation and complementarity. Triangulation was used to test the consistency of findings obtained through different instruments used, whilst complementarity clarifies and illustrates results from one method with the use of another method. The accessible population for the study was 130 JHS Religious and Moral Education teachers in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality. Purposive and census sampling techniques were used to select municipality, circuits and RME teachers respectively. The main instruments for data collection of study were questionnaire and an observation checklist. The quantitative data entry and analysis was done by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22, software for data analysis. The data analysis was informed by the research question which guided the study. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the research question (frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviation). At the same time, the data for the hypotheses were analysed through ANOVA and an independent-sampled t-test. The qualitative data was analysed by the use of the interpretative method based on the themes arrived at during the data collection. The themes were related to the research question and interpreted on the number of issues raised by respondents. These were based on question on the structured observation checklist. The study revealed that teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge is critical when it comes to children’s moral and spiritual development because content and pedagogy have to be presented and adopted to the learning needs, interests, and uniqueness each learner brings to the learning context. And this is where the usefulness of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge becomes a useful tool. The research hypotheses of the study also concluded that years of teaching experience do not always guarantee the development of PCK for RME teachers in the K.E.E.A. the study also indicated that the gender of JHS teachers in K.E.E.A was not a differentiator for assessing teachers pedagogical content knowledge in RME. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education provide teacher educators with state-of-the-art resources such as computers, projectors, interactive boards, internet connectivity, and books to enhance effective teaching of moral and religious concepts in class. It is also recommended that RME teachers pursue further education and learn about emerging issues in the teaching of RME for effective teaching and learning in the 21st century RME classroom.

The personal belief makes personal future come true, while the faith of a generation makes the future of a nation come true. As a valuable asset in the development of the Communist Party of China, red culture also reflects the spiritual strength of the Chinese nation. Red culture bearing rich spiritual connotation, how to effectively integrate the spiritual connotation of red culture with ideological and political education in colleges and universities and to effectively innovate and enrich the classroom teaching ways and methods of ideological and political education is of great significance. In addition to mainly introducing the connotation of red culture and the significance of integrating red culture into the ideological and political education of art colleges, this paper puts forward some effective ways of integrating red culture into the ideological and political education for art college students.

Being important part of Chinese traditional thoughts, Confucianism, is crucial ideological weapons used to govern, civilize and confine the public in feudal times. Till today, the essential ideas in Confucianism have become a paragon in the new period of Chinese culture construction. As for the dross in Confucianism, we must abandon it to exert positive influence on the later generations. The core and essence of Confucianism, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness, forgiveness, faithfulness, and filial piety, are the supreme ideal and criteria of social politics and ethics in feudal times. Based on the interpretation of important figures and books and records of Confucianism, the paper works to promote better understanding of Confucianism. Most of all, in modern times, Confucianism should be functioning in the ideological formation and developing.

This study reviewed literature about various standpoints of Michael Byram, Anthony J. Liddicoat, J.M Bennett, ClIL (Content and Language Learning) and Zhang Hongling in intercultural foreign language teaching research. Their researches is analyzed through comparison and induction, which find the characteristics of these representative studies, the similarities between theories, and the differences between Chinese and Western cross-cultural foreign language teaching. Based on the above analysis, the relevance and adaptability of the integration of Western intercultural foreign language teaching into the process of Chinese localization and the future development direction are presented.

The study’s goal was to determine the impact of using Bloom’s Taxonomy on students’ ability to read discussion text. This study was carried out at SMA Swasta Islam Azizi Medan, which is located on Jalan Kesatria, No.70, Kec. Medan Perjuangan, Kota Medan. The experimental design was used as the research method. The study was carried out during the 2019/2020 academic year. This study’s population was made up of 40 students from the third through twelfth grades. There were 40 students in the sample. An experimental design would be used in this study, with two groups: experimental and control. The experimental group employs Bloom’s taxonomy strategy, whereas the control group does not. The control group does not outperform the experimental group in terms of class control. The written test is the research instrument. The findings of this study revealed that t observed value was greater than t-table, indicating that t-test > t-table (9,55>2,021). The theory was accepted. It means that using Bloom’s taxonomy strategy had a significant effect on students’ ability to read discussion text.

The red song originated in the early stage of China’s new democratic revolution. It has distinctive national, political, and artistic characteristics, conveying a strong spirit of resistance and patriotism, and inspiring young Marxist pioneers and countless people to fight bloody battles. The red song is a unique cultural phenomenon in China, conforms to the Marxist view of practice and ideology, and has played a very important historical role in the ideological and political work of the Chinese Communist Party. To study and analyze the historical role of red songs in ideological and political work, to be able to learn the development process of red songs, analyze its development rules, and correctly guide the masses to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values, which is helpful to explore the new socialist outlook of red songs. The important value of the times stimulates the patriotism of the masses and promotes the national spirit.

The exploration and practice of art teaching mode in Colleges and Universities Based on virtual simulation technology is to innovate the way of curriculum presentation from the perspective of Art + technology, promote the integration of traditional art teaching and modern technology under the new situation, further change the traditional learning and appreciation mode of art in Colleges and Universities, enhance students’ sense of learning experience, expand thinking space and innovate educational ideas, Break through the fixed thinking and realize the classroom reform with the core concept of “active classroom” and the innovation of corresponding teaching methods and means. Finally, a multi-dimensional interactive teaching system of virtual simulation of art teaching is constructed on the basis of modern virtual technology to promote the comprehensive transformation and innovative growth of art education.

Marx and Engels were mainly engaged in the creation of scientific socialism and communism theory system and the practice of proletarian revolution. Although there is no literary work that indicates that they specialize in literature, aesthetics, literature and art, but in the huge articles, treatises, letters and other documents left in their lives, the complete literary thought system of Marx and Engels’ system will be found. Before intensively reading the literature of Marx and Engels’ literary thought, it is necessary to study the background, development stage and theoretical source of Marx and Engels’ literary thought. This article will start from these three directions, as a preliminary exploration of the study of Marx and Engels’ literary thoughts.

Huxiang culture rich in connotation began in ancient times and more shines itself in modern times after carried forward from the Song Dynasty. The typical spirit contained in Huxiang culture also goes deep into the flesh and blood of Hunan people. Therefore, the vocational schools in Hunan will inevitably be branded with Huxiang culture. Although there are many references that can be found from the development history of Huxiang culture and there is inspiration that can be drawn from achievements in literature, history and art, integrating Huxiang culture into morality education is still subject to institutional constraints such as local customs and religious beliefs. Rooted in Human, vocational schools in Hunan should absorb enough nutrition from Huxiang culture and explore the path of deep integration of Huxiang culture into morality education at vocational schools in combination with their own development to cultivate the vocational school culture with Huxiang spirit and form a virtuous circle between the Huxiang culture and the development of vocational schools. What’s more, the vocational schools in Hunan should cultivate students with noble moral sentiment while innovating the new path of developing vocational school culture.

The outbreak of COVID - 19 allows China to examine the national system from the same perspective as the rest of the world. The Chinese government under the leadership of the Communist Party of China took the lead in winning the COVID - 19 epidemic through unremitting efforts, and the epidemic test fully demonstrated the superiority of the socialist system. The centralized and unified leadership of the Party is the greatest advantage of the socialist system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Focusing on doing major things is the concentrated embodiment of the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and upholding the people - centered approach is a prominent advantage of the socialist system. The victory of the epidemic has made China firmly believe that the socialist path is right and bright, and that the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics has great prospects.

Since COVID-19 hit almost all of the countries, almost every sector in the world changed including education system. Because of this situation, Face to face system or conventional technique for teaching learning process also changed and online learning to be implemented from kindergarten till university. This was made to help student and teacher relationship and communication without limited by time and space. In Muhammadiyah University, E-learning used to relate students and lectures communication for teaching and learning process. So, the goal of this research tried to find out the effectiveness of online learning during COVID-19 Pandemic on Psycholinguistic subject at English Education Study Program in UMSU. This research used quantitative method. The total population of this research is 69 students who are in the eight semester that took psycholinguistic subject came from class A and B morning. To be the instruments of this study is the questionnaires given to the students via Google form and became the source of the data. Only 40 students returned it back and these became the sample for this research. Then, the data to be collected and analyzed. From the data collection, it was found that 70％ students said it was good to use online learning and the rest 30 ％ can’t follow this learning.

Aesthetic education and ideological and political education have been advocated by educators in the past dynasties. China has a long history of their integration. In the era of multimedia, colleges and universities have not adopted flexible methods to teach ideological and political courses, and there are problems such as lack of humanistic care and aesthetic education, which seriously affect the teaching effect of ideological and political courses. The integration of aesthetic education and multimedia ideological and political teaching can help students to establish scientific values, play a good role in laying a foundation for students growth in emotion, and stimulate students innovation ability.

This research is based on the interviews and classroom observations of some teachers and students in a middle school in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, China, which is designed to investigate the effects of adding oral English test to the High School Entrance Examination on English teaching and learning in Hubei Province. The study shows that the oral test has a positive effect on both teaching and learning of junior middle school English. In general, teachers’ and students’ basic views and attitudes toward oral examinations are positive. Students consider that it can increase their awareness of the importance of oral English and intentionally practice speaking in and out of class to prepare for the coming test. Teachers believe that the oral test can test students’ comprehensive language skills and motivate teachers to optimize teaching reform, as well as improve and strengthen students’ oral practice activities in and out of class.

As a literary and cultural canon, the Chu ci is full of culture-specific words, including words related to shamanic rites. These words can be classified into names of gods and ghosts, place names, names of sacrificial offerings, and terminologies of soul-summoning. They can be rendered by transliteration, literal translation, free translation, addition, omission, or combination of them. These translating methods should be used flexibly according to specific contexts, and then their cultural connotations can be represented effectively.

Due to the cultural differences, people perceive and express time differently. Ancient Chinese poets used metaphors tremendously. Those metaphors are not arbitrary, but from their physical experience and deeply rooted in the culture. Chinese culture attaches great importance to the inheritance and continuation of its history, thus its national ideology was and still is to show respect to ancestors. From the perspective of embodied cognition, people will choose to face rather than back to the object of worship. Therefore, Chinese native speakers in ancient times adopted the time cognitive model of facing the past. This paper aims to analyze the Spatio-temporal metaphors in Li Sao (Woe after Departure), one of the representative works of Qu Yuan(340 B.C. - 278 B.C), the renowned patriotic poet of the state of Chu in the Warring States period of China (770-476 BC), and find that Qu Yuan tends to adopt the moving time mode, showing his woeful disappointment for the authorities and reverence for the ancient saga (前贤qian xian, former saga). He was determined to quest for good government with his death. This proves that the time schema in ancient China was facing the past and back to the future, that is, taking the past or earlier time as the front and the future or later time as the back.

A large number of metaphors have been used in the white paper Fighting COVID-19: China in Action. According to the classification of metaphors, war metaphors, plant metaphors and architectural metaphors are most commonly used in the white paper. By summarizing the metaphorical translation strategies, this paper concludes that there are four metaphorical translation strategies that are frequently used in the white paper: literal translation, free translation, omission and mixed translation. It can be seen that literal translation is the first consideration in white paper translation, and the cultural characteristics and connotation of the original text should be preserved as far as possible from form to content. In cases where literal translation is not applicable, priority should be given to the accurate transmission of original information, and free translation, omission or mixed translation can be adopted. The differences in metaphorical translation strategies lie in the differences in cultural cognition and language expressions.

Radio educational programmes do contribute to making the populace of a country be well informed. If this is not the case, it could be connected to demographic characteristics as predictors of market women having a negative influence on participation in radio educational programmes. It is in this regard that this study investigated demographic factors as predictors of market women participation in radio educational programmes aired on Fresh FM 105.9, Lagelu FM 96.7 and Splash FM 105.5 radio stations in Ibadan. The descriptive survey research design was used. The population consisted of 4500 market women in Bode, Oja- Oba and Scout Camp Markets in Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State. With the application of purposive sampling technique, a total number of 870 market women served as respondents for this study. A reliability test Cronbach alpha coefficient score of 0.90 was recorded for participation in radio educational programmes respectively. Data were analyzed using inferential statistics out of age, educational qualification and marital status, only marital status was found not to influence participation (β =- 0.033, P > 0.05). The study recommends that market women should devote more time and give priority to participation and be more actively involved in radio educational programmes aired on Fresh FM 105.9, Lagelu FM 96.7 and Splash Fm105.5 in Oyo State.

As a subject closely related to innovation, design art needs innovation more than any other discipline, and cultivating students’ creativity is naturally called one of the training goals of environmental design students, the author thinks that cultivating the creativity of environmental design students should start from the cultivation of students’ creative thinking and students’ creative personality, and point directly to teaching. Under the tide of promoting university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship, it is not enough to cultivate creativity, we should learn from the successful experience of the German University of Applied Science and Technology and cultivate creative professionals in applied technology environment design.

College students are in their youthful years, full of energy, active in thinking, and strong in physique, activity ability and self-expression ability. As a young generation around the age of 20, the college students with both physiology and mentality reaching a certain degree have a strong thirst for knowledge. Receiving higher education, getting in touch with new ideas, having relatively free and flexible study and living time, and being separated from the control of their parents, college students show extreme freedom in behavior and speech, that is, they do what they want, say what they want, or regard those not done by others as “personality”. Art colleges are especially full of students with the so-called “personality”, but how to correctly deal with the “personality” of students in art colleges plays an important role and significance in strengthening students’ management and guiding learning.

We explored students’ experiences in postgraduate studies to investigate a set of empirical results from multiple situations, as well as develop possible theories that explain and predict how to select a relevant statistical test effectively. The participants were graduate students in the various departments at the university of the Western Cape (UWC). The findings demonstrate that the factors contributing to failure in the application of statistical procedures application include difficulty in applying statistics to real life problems, a lack of knowledge and non-familiarity with the items. The results also reveal that the confusion as well as conflicting concepts in statistics exacerbate the failure in statistical methods. This study provided important outcomes that could be useful to researchers in the domain. Further, it could result in an improved orientation of schemes and programmes related to statistics knowledge for UWC and universities across the country. The recommendations could be made to government authorities, planners and policymakers, some of whom already exist in programmes initiated to address statistics education in South Africa and Africa at large.

The questionnaire is one of the most widely used techniques for collecting quantitative data. This article aims to introduce the basic definition and types of questionnaires, difficulties researchers encounter when designing questionnaires, the criteria for a good questionnaire and then, steps and skills of questionnaire design will be presented with a questionnaire sample to help readers understand the design process.

Huainanzi is a philosophical and political masterpiece written by Liu An in the early Western Han Dynasty in China. Although it has been more than one century since Huainanzi was firstly introduced into English, studies on English translation of Huainanzi began thirty years ago. This article reviews 10 English papers and 8 Chinese ones from Google Scholar and CNKI. The researches abroad focus on paratexts and term translation while domestic on targeted text and paratexts. There are still some limitations, including inadequate translated versions, partial angles of translation and study, and simple research methods. The author suggests that further studies should be promoted by taking surveys of target readers, innovating research methods from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Online Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) combines all major communication strategies used in marketing. Most organizations find the unified technique very useful and cost effective. This notwithstanding, expectations have not been fully met in the extant literature when it comes to using research to address persisting limitations of IMC. One of such limitations is the extent to which IMC can be used by organizations to attain customers’ loyalty. This is important because customers’ loyalty to organizations speaks volumes about the depth of relationship that exists between them and customers. This limitation led to this study, which was primarily designed to examine if customers awareness of online products and services produced by Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB), Nigeria Plc has impact on the level of loyalty it enjoys from customers. Survey research method was adopted. Questionnaire was administered on three hundred and eighty four (384) respondents in four Local Government Areas of Ibadan, south-west Nigeria. Also, three null hypotheses were tested at 0.005 level of significance based on the chi square result ( X2(16) > = 2.422, P< 0.000), The level of significance for the three hypotheses were < 0.005. In the end, it was revealed that online IMC promotes customers’ awareness and customers’ patronage of the products and services offered by GTB and also leads to customers’ loyalty. It was also revealed that the combination of IMC strategies with the internet promotes customers’ acceptability of GTB. It was recommended that organizations should pay good attention to Online IMC in order to deploy it more meaningfully to gain continuous customers’ loyalty.

The paper makes an in-depth study of the manifestation of translator’s subjectivity through the comparison of four English translations of a Chinese classic San Zi Jing, and tries to find out the underlying controlling factors for their varied ways of translation. Based on the relevant discussions on translator’s role, it shows that translators did play an active part in the course of translation, whose deliberate choice is often influenced by some constraints, namely, the translator’s personal background, and the social context they are in. Through the descriptive analysis, it aims at making an objective evaluation of the role of different translation in the history of cross-cultural communication.

This paper compares three English versions of The Great Learning to study the different choices of translation strategies adopted by the translators. Through comparison, it finds that the different cultural backgrounds of the three translators greatly influence the translation strategies. The two foreigners mainly adopt the domestication strategy while the others adopts foreigniztion strategy.

In China elementary school, English teaching ways are developed from word-and-grammar-focused to discourse-focused one indicating discourse analysis in teaching. Most studies about discourse analysis-based English teaching were done in colleges and few practical approaches on discourse analysis for teachers in primary and junior schools are concerned. Thus in this paper, the authors attempt to discuss this field. First it introduced four approaches of discourse analysis, including the Descriptively-Structured Approach (SDA), the Social-Cultural Approach (SCA), the Cognitive Approach (CA) and the Critical Approach (CA). Generally speaking, in elementary English teaching, English discourse can be categorized into 4 styles, that is, story/narration style, argumentation style, explanatory style and conversation style. Based on the above introduction, the paper also attempts to use the four approaches to analyze English reading class.

With the development of technology and economy, English as an international language is becoming more widely used. Therefore, high level English teaching is needed. However, there are still some problems in English language teaching, like the tendency to pay too much attention to the explanation and teaching of phonetics, vocabulary and grammar. Therefore it’s one of the reasons for putting forward the general goal of English curriculum, that is, to cultivate the comprehensive language competence. The purpose of this paper is to investigate into the students’ use of comprehensive language competence in Dalongshan Junior Middle School.Through the questionnaire and data analysis, the author finds that most students have a clear idea about comprehensive language competence. And they know the relationship between language knowledge and language skills. But they don’t realize the importance to use learning strategies. Also, there are some teaching problems in this class, such as too much homework and tests, so the author suggests that the students should be trained to develop learning strategies and the teacher should avoid mechanical teaching method.

The film Desert Flower is adapted from the best seller of the same name written by Waris Dirie, a famous black model. It tells a story about a circumcised Somali girl, who, in order to escape the ridiculous marriage arranged by her father, sneaked away to the United Kingdom and ultimately became the top model after arduous difficulties. This study will take Hofstede cultural dimensions theory as the explanatory framework to contrastively discuss the cultural differences between Britain and Somalia in the film, hoping to reveal a deeper understanding of these two cultures.

MOOC is mainly the use of the network platform to show the teaching content in the form of micro-lesson, and flipped classroom is a unique innovative and individualized teaching model. The MOOC-based flipped classroom teaching model is the use of network technology and resources to flip the teaching goal and teaching form, teaching subject and teachers, and to create a new situation of teaching and learning. On the basis of a full study on the current situation and related theories of the application of the flipped classroom and MOOC, this paper constructs the MOOC-based flipped classroom teaching model, and applies it to the course International Trade Practice English. The author carries on the teaching experiment to explore the effectiveness of flipped classroom teaching model in college English teaching. The experiment proves that the application of the MOOC-based flipped classroom teaching model improves students’ academic performance and the teacher and students have a positive attitude towards the implementation of the MOOC-based flipped classroom teaching model. Finally, the author summarizes the major findings for the follow-up research with a hope to provide some reference for the future application.

Retranslation, as a hot topic in the field of translation study, provides a vast world for the researchers of translation. Through the study of retranslation of literary works, we can know many aspects of a society and an era including the evolution of ideology, the transition of politics, the development of economy, the vicissitude of culture, the trend of aesthetic taste, the change of translation concept, the supersedure of translation strategy and the substitute of translation approach. At home, in the early 1930s, Lu Xun realized the importance and necessity of retranslation. In the recent 30 years, retranslation study at home has made significant progress. Many translation scholars, such as Lou Shiyi, Feng Yidai, Xu Yuanzhong, Luo Guolin, and Zhang Jinghao, investigated the causes of retranslation from different perspectives. Other translation scholars studied foreign and Chinese retranslation versions on the basis of different theories such as translatology, literature, and linguistics; still others studied retranslation from the angles of interdisciplinary sciences and academic trends. To sum up, the similarities between foreign and domestic retranslation study are the investigation of the cause of retranslation and the interdisciplinary study of retranslation. Most foreign studies of retranslation are diachronic, comparative and interdisciplinary ones. Early domestic studies of retranslation are mostly based on experiences of the translator. Domestic studies of retranslation in this century are mostly comparative based on the comparison of different retranslation versions from the angle of related theory.

In addition to exploring the integration development mode of industrial design and entrepreneurship education, the combination of entrepreneurship and specialty education, the mainstream of development of innovation and entrepreneurship education, constructs the practice teaching curriculum system of industrial design, applies the studio mode, cultivates excellent teachers, and explores the teaching integration path of complete practice teaching evaluation.

The paper reports on how to conduct evaluation reform practice during “College English (including Listening) A1” teaching course, taking the design class 11903 and the music class 11903 of Yangtze University as examples, which is related to college English examination and evaluation reform. The paper analyzes the traditional evaluation form (mainly final-term examination) and its shortcomings and puts forward a synthetic evaluation model of combing the formative evaluation and summative evaluation (also final-term examination). The results of the implementation of this synthetic evaluation model have been reported in the paper. At last, the paper concludes significance of the practice of “College English (including Listening) A1”. In one word, diversified synthetic evaluation practice during the course pays close attention the whole learning process and growth from students’ perspective, and students’ course assessment results are based on all different tests and their performance during the whole learning course process plus their final exam scores.

This paper systematically reviews the experiential learning in English Teaching. The article analyzes the experiential learning activities like games, role-plays, simulations and field-trips to expound how experiential learning is combined with English teaching, and its effect on English teaching, pointing out the achievements and limitations of current research, hoping to help future scholars in this field.

Teachers’ professional quality is an important determinant of teaching quality. So far, many scholars at home and abroad have done a lot of research on teachers professional development, the structure of teachers’ professional quality and the path to improve teachers’ professional quality, which are theoretical research. This study selects the public English teachers of secondary vocational schools in Zhuzhou as the research group to carry out the field research from four aspects: Teachers’ Morality, Teachers’ Knowledge, Teachers’ Ability and Teachers’ Thinking, so as to provide objective data for the enhancement of the professional quality of English teachers in secondary vocational.

This study aims to determine: (1) the relationship between parental education level and mathematics learning outcomes for grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. (2) the relationship between student learning independence and mathematics learning outcomes for grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. (3) the relationship between parental education level and learning independence on mathematics learning outcomes for grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. This type of research is quantitative research. The population in this study amounted to 170 students and a sample of 34 students. The data analysis used in this research is descriptive analysis, simple correlation and multiple correlation. The results of this study indicate that: (1) there is a positive and significant relationship between the level of parental education on the mathematics learning outcomes of grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. This is indicated by the value of the correlation coefficient rx1y= 0.714 > rtable = 0.339, and the results of the t-test 5.771 > ttable 2.039; (2) there is a positive and significant relationship between student learning independence and mathematics learning outcomes for grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. This is indicated by the value of the correlation coefficient rx2y = 0.968 > rtable = 0.339 and the results of the t-test 21.967 > ttable 2.039; (3) there is a positive and significant relationship between the level of parental education and student learning independence together with the mathematics learning outcomes of grade XI of SMA Swasta Teladan Pematangsiantar in academic year of 2020/2021. This is indicated by the Pearson coefficient r x1x2y= 0.968 > rtable= 0.339; and Fcount 232.39 > Ftable 3.39.

Chu lacquer wares are regarded as the representatives of Chu culture and they are carriers to transmit Chinese culture during cross-cultural communication. Nevertheless, there are transmission problems of Chu lacquer wares. For Chu lacquer wares texts, the problems refer to incomplete structure, inaccurate English Language, and insufficient cultural factors. For transmission methods of Chu lacquer wares, it is noticed that the traditional transmission methods are still adopted most. Aiming at improving and solving these problems, synergism strategies on transmission of Chu lacquer wares are studied including complete structure, accurate English language and sufficient cultural factors of Chu Lacquer wares texts. Moreover, modern transmission methods about the online or live courses and theme events on Chu lacquer wares are discussed as well as the diversified traditional transmission methods. It is expected to improve the translation readable and acceptable and offer diversity strategies to transmit Chu lacquer wares and Chu culture.

The study was conducted to examine the status of WASH in senior high schools in the Assin South District. The specific objectives for the study were to: describe the status of WASH facililties in the senior high schools in the Assin South District, and analyse the effects of poor WASH facilities in senior high school in the Assin South District. Mixed methods research approach with explanatory sequential research design was employed for the study. The sample size for the study was 2I6 which was made up of teachers, wash coordinators and students drawn from senior high schools in the Assin South District. The simple random and purposive sample techniques were employed for the study, and data were collected using observation and interview guides, and questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The outcome of the study was that WASH facilities, in the study schools were inadequate, and the few available were not well maintained. In addition, the attitude of students towards the use and maintenance of the facilities was poor. Thus status of WASH facilities was poor, thereby affecting the health, school attendance and the academic performance of students. Based on the outcome of the study, it was recommended that, there is the urgent need for school administration to adequately provide and maintain WASH facilities, including toilets, water urinal and waste disposal. The school administration can effectively do this by bringing this to the attention of the P.T.A during their meetings and educating the parents on the need for the provision of proper and efficient WASH facilities in the schools. A committee for the promotion of WASH facilities should then be formed by the P.T.A.s to ensure the proper use of WASH facilities by the students. There should also be regular education at all school functions to sensitise the students on the need for their proper use to promote the health of the students. They should also be educated on the consequences of the poor use of the facilities and what they are expected to do to avoid such consequences.

By employing the method of classroom observation and interviewing, this paper explores how to carry out the educational concept of happiness in the elementary school English teaching according to students’ learning psychological characteristics: design selected stories, games and drama performances in teaching content; offer opportunities of exploring, summarizing and creating to students; respect the individual differences and encourage mutual help among students so as to create harmonious atmosphere. According to the classroom observation and interviewing, students are much readier to learn after teachers’ carrying out the educational concept of happiness.

This research paper aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge on applying statistical procedures in higher education and its impact on adaptive learning. We examined a set of empirical results from several statistics tasks, as well as investigating how to choose a relevant statistical test effectively. The participants were graduate students in the various departments at the University of Cape Town (UCT). We used qualitative methods to evaluate and interpret findings. The results highlighted four distinct major directions for an effective choice of statistical test. We focused on the emerged added value of confusion in the application of real life problems, as well as the limited evidence available and highlighted the significance of further implications. Finally, we set our thoughts on possible uncharted key questions to investigate the non-familiar statistical tests from a technical viewpoint.

Yangtze University is a comprehensive university, and its petroleum major has a high status in the whole of China.In recent years, the Petroleum School of Yangtze University has more and more frequent foreign exchanges, and English is mostly used in foreign exchanges. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the accuracy of English terms and the efficiency of Chinese-English translation.The growing prosperity of import and export trade and the demand for translation has witnessed a huge increasing. The translation efficiency and quality put forward higher threshold, therefore the need for uniformity and accuracy of terminology translation [1] is of particular significance. At present, most petroleum enterprises use machine translation directly, but due to the lack of professional translation software for petroleum terms and the translation memory database, it is difficult to achieve the consistency in the overall content, style and terms of translation [3]. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of the use of oil-related corpus and translation memory on the efficiency of translation, the reduction of repeated work, the demand of the market and the Times.At the same time, this paper is committed to serving the academic research and foreign exchange and cooperation related to the petroleum field of Yangtze University, and improve the accuracy and authority of the translation of Jianghan Oilfield and other oil fields in the foreign cooperation to a certain extent, which has a certain academic value and practical value. This paper takes the computer aided translation software Trados as the carrier [5] to improve the accuracy and efficiency of petroleum translation by importing the terms collected and the translation memory database.

This study examined coping with the challenges of Covid-19 pandemic by private universities in Nigeria, the Lead City University experience, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) provided the theoretical framework for the study. The study used mixed- research approaches, adopting survey and key personality interview (KPI). The instruments of data collection for the study were questionnaire and interview. Simple random sampling was employed to select 132 academic staff of Lead City University Ibadan to form the sample size for the study while an interview section was conducted with the Director of Academic Planning. Results obtained were analyzed and presented in simple percentage tables. Findings show that lecturers in Lead City University, Ibadan interacted with their students during the lockdown. WhatsApp and Zoom were most used and preferred by lecturers. Majority of the lecturers preferred physical class than online class. Online platforms were effective for lecturing during the lockdown in Lead City University although lecturers experienced network failure with lecturing online. Also, Interactions with students were affected by power supply while lecturers were not satisfied with the way the network failure was addressed by the management. Equally, students’ participation during lecturing/interaction was effective. The study recommends that Lead City and Nigerian Universities should tap into the opportunity that WhatsApp and Zoom platforms offer in achieving success through online teaching. Lead City University, Nigerian Universities and Nigerian Government should develop better network providers and stable power supply so as to make online lectures more effective.

A strong young generation brings a nation’s lustihood. The establishment of the patriotism-centered national spirit and the physical and mental health of teenagers is the prerequisite of the future success, which are the main objectives and tasks of contemporary education. This article presents a brief review of current situation of cultivating Wushu in young generation, and then the data collected by literature review, on-the-spot investigation and expert interviews have been examined. The results show that practicing Wushu can help young people develop good living habits while achieving physical fitness; Wushu training can helps young people develop good character qualities and promote the mental health. Suggestions: standardize the content of Wushu teaching in elementary and secondary schools; develop the value of wushu education; carry out Wushu publicity activities; “Holistic Education” - strengthen the skill training of Wushu teachers and improve their knowledge of Wushu. It is hoped that this article can provide reference for the better development of Wushu in the elementary and secondary schools stages and the further exertion of the active role of Wushu on the healthy development of teenagers.

Teenage pregnancy has been a major setback to the overall development of the girl child in various communities in Ghana. The study adopted the qualitative research approach and used case study design to explore the experience of teenage mothers in selected senior high schools in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District. The target population of the study consisted of teenage mothers and their teachers in two senior high schools in the district. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were adopted to select twenty participants comprised of 16 teenage mothers and 4 teachers for the study. Semi-structured interview schedule and focus group discussion guide were used to collect data from the participants and the data analysis was done through thematic procedure. The study revealed that teenage mothers had fair knowledge on teenage pregnancy before they became pregnant. The study found that poverty, negative peer influence, permissive behaviour of some parents among others were the contributing factors to teenage pregnancy in Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District. It was also revealed that teenage mothers faced challenges which include financial burden, unfriendly school environment and stigmatization in their bid to continue their education. It is recommended that endowment fund should be established by the district to support girls including teenage mothers who are serious with their academic pursuit.

This study seeks to find the extent to which family life, reproductive health, and population education are interrelated. While each one as specific focus, they also overlap. Family life education is defined by the international planned parenthood federation as an educational process designed to assist young people in their physical, emotional and moral development as they prepare for adulthood, marriage, parenthood and ageing, as well as social relationship in the socio- cultural context of the family and society. While reproductive health education is describes by UNESCO/UNPFA as education experiences aimed at developing capacity of adolescents to understand their sexuality in the context of biological, psychological, socio- cultural and reproductive dimensions and to acquire skills in managing responsible decisions and actions with regards to sexual and reproductive health behaviors’. In the same vein, population education is defined by UNFPA as the process of helping people understand the nature, causes and implications of population processes as they affect and are affected by individuals, families, communities and nations. It focuses on family and individual decisions influencing population change at the micro level, as well as on broad demographic changes Population education addresses issues as rapid population growth and scarce resources as well as population decline in light of increasingly elderly population.

This research was conducted to find out the effect of Herringbone Technique on the students’ ability in comprehending reading narrative text at grade VIII of SMP Swasta GKPS 3 Pematangsiantar. The problem of the research is “Does Herringbone Technique significantly affects on the students’ ability in comprehending reading Narrative text at grade VIII of SMP Swasta GKPS 3 Pematangsiantar?” The methodology which used in this research was the quantitative research. The data for this research was collected from the grade VIII of SMP Swasta GKPS 3 Pematangsiantar. The writer used two classes as the sample, where one class was experimental group and the other one as the control group. The instrument for collecting data was by reading test. The text used is narrative text. The questions are arranged in such a way to ask all components of the narrative text. The data were analyzed by applying the T-test. It was found that the T- observed was 5.3 and T- table was 2.00 at the level of significant p=0.05 and df= 78 ; (Nx + Ny - 2 = 40 + 40 - 2 = 78). The result of the analysis shows that the value of the T-observed was higher than the value T-table (5.3 > 2.00). It means that Herringbone Technique has significant affect on the students’ ability in comprehending Narrative text, and the suggestion is the teacher should use Herringbone Technique in teaching English especially in teaching reading to improve the students’ reading comprehension competence.

This is a multivariate study to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and academic performance. The research design used for the study was a cross sectional survey using the qualitative and quantitative approaches (mixed methods). The variables were measured using an adaption of questionnaires from Robinson, Mandleco, Oslen and Hart. These factor analytically derived questionnaires were assessed for the construct validity and reliability for use on Ghanaian students. Data gathered from 250 junior high school students and 15 parents in the Effutu Municipality were analysed using simple description and multiple regression analytical techniques. Among the study findings were that permissive parenting style was the best predictor of academic performance. Among the conclusions of the findings are that, whether the quantitative approach or the qualitative approach is used to establish which parenting style is commonly adopted in the Effutu Municipality, it was found out that , the permissive parenting style was the commonly used one. It was also established that students who motivate themselves do better academically. However, the study also found that, for a student to perform well in school, he or she needs a parent(s) who will adopt all the four major parenting styles; permissive parenting style, democratic parenting style, authoritarian parenting style and authoritative parenting style at appropriate times for the betterment of the child.

Metaphor can be found everywhere in our life. It is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also an important means of thinking, which involves in human cognitive process. Metaphor not only reflects reality, but also constructs reality. Not only can it make our thoughts reflected in a vivid and interesting way, but also influence and construct our thoughts. It urges people to take action to explore other cultures. This paper analyzes the Chinese translation of metaphors in the lines of the overwhelming successful American TV opera Why Women Kill from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, which opposes studying vocabulary as isolated and emphasizes the role of encyclopedia knowledge framework in cognitive category. This paper further proves that the translation process is not only a process of code conversion, but also concept mapping and category reconstruction.

Over the years, a few labour force surveys (LFS) have taken place across South Africa. The data on age and sex from these studies were problematic. Errors have occurred in the data collection process. We re-evaluated the 2007 and 2012 LFS using demographic analysis. The Combined Index of United Nations (CIUN) highlighting the trends and the quality in the reporting on age informs this analysis among ethnic groups by geographical level. Comparisons between the indexes of each instrument were done to measure variations over years (within years). At national level, the increased number of females in the labour force participation seemed to encourage them to be comfortable in the reporting of data on age and sex compared to their male counterparts in both surveys. Females did better reporting on age compared to males and the quality of declaration on age was likely enhanced at national than provincial levels. The geographical scope of the study is national meaning it covers all nine provinces of South Africa. On ethnicity, the female population was more affected by the patterns of preference compared to males in 2007 LFS, with the exception of Africans/Blacks. The improvement in age reporting of males was observed amongst Indian and White population groups. The findings revealed why the government could not address a meaningful policy program. We proposed a fundamental restructuring of education policies, to establish dialogue on the cultural constructions. There is an urgent need for government agencies and NGOs to strengthen training, introduce parent education and community outreach programs.

According to Eastern philosophy, water is one of the most essential elements in life. It has been proved to be the most vital in all aspects of life: living source, sanitation, agricultural irrigation, and food supply (aquaculture products), which results in civilizations all over the world usually reside along massive rivers. Hence, it can be admitted that the phenomenon of water deeply rooted in the subconsciousness of each ethic group and it can be vividly manifested in their own language. This article aims to clarify “water” semantic field which consists of various subfields such as the subfield indicating existing form of water: ice, water, steam, vapor, sleet..., the subfield indicating the movement of water flow, drift, pour, surge, drain ..., the subfield indicating status of water opaque, clear, cool, clean ..., the subfield indicating container of water: pond, lake, sea, river..., the subfield indicating artificial container of water class, bowl, cup, jar ..., the subfield indicating human interactions with water block (chặn/ngăn), irrigate, bath...”. The water semantic field is dramatically diverse with numerous words, which shapes a hierarchical system within its subfields. These subfields have been respectively demonstrated so as to clearly explain the frequency of occurrences among words through practical statistic and semantic field theory. Furthermore, this article suggests logical steps to classify the water semantic field in terms of linguistic criteria. The results reflect the connections between humans and water as well as the water condition, which have a significant impact on human life according to the cognition of the Vietnamese.

Given the importance of the study of organizations, especially in the educational field, this article intends to base the need for organizational diagnosis in educational units as a way to improve their performance in fulfilling their social responsibility. First, the methodological design is described, which contemplated the application, procedure and interpretation of qualitative methods and techniques such as: document analysis, in-depth interview, brainstorming and the SWOT matrix in the study of Human Resources Management (HRM), Culture and Organizational Climate, subcategories of organizational diagnosis analysis. The population studied was composed of 60 employees of the entity, 30 of them formed the sample. In the end, the action plan is proposed as an essential step in the process and the results of its application.

Within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M., the present paper analyzes the expressions in the Mfantse dialect of Akan, which communicate the state of overmaturity in farm products, more precisely farm product + adjectives forms (e.g. kube werpee ‘coconut dry’). This study is a case study which uses a qualitative research approach. The analysis is based on data collected from six (6) farmers purposively sampled from Gomoa Asebu, Ajumako and Mfantse Nyankomase in the Central Region of Ghana. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. It is realized that among the Mfantse people, the presence of a given feature like dryness or overripe is conceptualized to communicate the overmaturity of farm products. The results of our discussion may add to further research into the factors that contribute to figurative expressions and coinage relating to crop farming vocabulary among the Mfantse people.

It is a known fact today that early sex has implications for one’s self-perception, social status and future health behaviour. Just like the western world, Nigerian youths are becoming predominantly pre-marital in their sexual activities. There is therefore a need for a friendly young people’s reproductive health services. Although much research has been done on reproductive health services (RHS), but the persistence of reproductive health problems among undergraduates in Nigerian university makes this study pertinent.A survey research design was adopted for this study while multistage sampling method was used to select the school, faculties, and participants of this study. A self-designed questionnaire was used for data collection, which was pilot tested through test-re-test and yielded a reliability coefficient (index) of .860. Four research questions and five hypotheses were formulated and tested. Analysis of data was done using descriptive statistics and regression analysis fixed at the .05 significant levels. A total of 388 participants were included in the study, 39.2％ and 60.8％ were males and females respectively while their ages ranged from 16-27 years with a mean age of 20.9.The result found no gender difference in the undergraduates’ knowledge of reproductive health services (t = .566, df = 386, p = .437) while gender difference was observed in the undergraduates utilization of reproductive health services (t = 2.222; df = 386; p = 0.03) It was revealed further that utilization of reproductive health services will not be significantly influenced by undergraduates sexual behaviour (f = 0.156, p = .693). Results equally showed that 21％ of the total variance in the access to reproductive health services among undergraduate students is accounted for by sexual behaviour, gender, and knowledge (R = 0.291; R2 Adj. = 0.210; F (3,387) = 3.802; P = .00) and 7％ of the total variance in the utilization of reproductive health services among undergraduate students is accounted for by sexual behaviour, gender, and knowledge (R = .015; R2 Adj. = .007; F (3,387) = 1.950; P = .00). The study concluded that factors influencing access and utilization of RHS were personal, socio-economic, and institutional in nature. Based on the outcome of this study, it was recommended that active sensitization of the youth in schools, through school health programs not just at the University level but from primary school be promoted. Nurses should provide a youth friendly RHS, that is functional, effective and affordable at every point in time.

The grassroots party branch is the basis of the whole work and combat effectiveness of the party in universities. To give full play to the role of the Party branch as a fighting fortress, it is necessary to strengthen the party branch construction. Both the central and local governments have attached great importance to the construction of party branches, and have formulated a series of relevant documents. Jiangsu Province has formulated a “Three-year Action Plan for ‘Improving Quality and Efficiency’ for the Construction of Party Branches in Jiangsu Colleges and Universities in the New Era (2019-2021)”, and designated 2020 as “the year of high-quality party branches construction”. This research defines the connotation of high-quality party branches construction in universities in the new era, and sorts out the main contents and requirements of high-quality party branches construction. It proves that there are problems in some party branches construction, such as party branch secretaries emphasizing achievement over party construction, lacking of enthusiasm and innovation. This research puts forward solutions, like strengthening the training of party branch secretaries, strengthening the guidance and support of party branches, and implementing inspection system and drive policy.

This paper examined time managements an effective tool in the management of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria. Management being a set of practice that is meant to work together to help one get more value out of one’s time with the aim of improving the quality of life and that of Institution. This work is based on qualitative design using secondary data from books and journals for the conceptual clarifications and literature review. The Works showed that some Tertiary Institutional managers had no clue for organizing a successful programme that march with accurate time and Institutional calendar and most often do not utilize time judiciously as expected to attain Institutional goals. This work concludes that one must always plan in advance, to avoid multitasking and reduce the uncertainty, distractions and make sure the environment around is working to strengthen the focus and willpower.

Trade and markets are aspects of economic activities of man in every section of Igboland. Ecological variations among different communities had enveloped societies to come together to trade, first through barter, and later the invention and introduction of currency by the colonial masters. Ogbete market, one of the earliest developed markets in Igboland, grew to meet people’s demand for goods and services. This development was as a result of colonial infrastructures which gave rise to intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic transactions. These activities in the market attracted migrants, thereby increasing the growth and advancement of the market. Unfortunately, this well-structured market was affected by the outbreak of the Nigeria – Biafra War (1967 – 1970). During this debacle, Ogbete became an abode for the Nigerian military occupationary force, and a sex resort for raping and molesting Biafran ladies. Some parts of the market even got burnt. However, sequel to the undaunting entrepreneurial spirit of Enugu indigenes, Ogbete was not only rebuilt after the war, but has continued to significantly assist in the development of Enugu metropolis in many ways. Apart from serving as a melting pot for viable intergroup relations and economic succor, it is not without certain negative impacts within its location, including some emergent challenges. Retracing and reconstructing the evolutionary growth and the strategic importance of Ogbete main market demands detailed reliance on both primary and secondary sources, to aid historical objectivity. In doing so, both qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry received the pride of place.

The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which originated from the city of Wuhan, China, has become a major public health challenge for not only China but also countries all over the world. In fact the pandemic has led to the total lockdown of most of the human activities in various parts of the world. The World Health Organization announced that the outbreaks of the novel coronavirus have constituted a public health emergency of international concern. As of February 26, 2020, COVID-19 has been recognized in 34 countries, with a total of 80,239 laboratory-confirmed cases and 2,700 deaths, there was a sudden shoot up of confirmed cases of 4.9 million in at least 188 countries with 323,300 deaths and nearly 1.7 million recoveries as at 20th of May 2020. Infection control measures are necessary to prevent the virus from further spreading and to help control the epidemic situation. One of the control measures is the total lockdown of schools at various levels in the whole world, on march 19, 2020 Nigerian government through the federal ministry of education ordered the closure of all schools at various levels. There is no doubt that the interference of the coronavirus pandemic has caused so many challenges on the Nigerian education system, in the like this, this paper reveals the concepts of coronavirus (covid-19), issues, challenges and impacts on the sustainable development of the educational system of Nigeria.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the grammatical features deploy in Fante-English code-switching in radio broadcast and the extent to which the occurrences of these switches tally in other code-switching structures. The population of the study included all the fifty-five radio presenters in four (4) radio stations in Twin-City of Sekondi-Takoradi. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the four (4) Frequency Modulation (FM) stations. The instruments employed for collecting data were audio recorder and questionnaire. The study established that Fante-English switches in radio broadcast occur at the morpheme, word, phrase and clause boundaries. The study also revealed that code-switching in the context of radio broadcast is motivated by factors such as shift of topic of discussion, difficulty in translation and momentary forgetting of words.

An investigation was undertaken on “Socio-scientific issues in the curricula: discovering the classroom situation of Nigerian secondary schools science teachers and students”. The main objectives of the study were to determine the perceptions of teachers on the inclusion of socio-scientific issues in the curricula of science. The study also investigated the extent to which the students were willing to study those issues. Moreover, the study found out the effect of type or geographical location of schools on students’ academic performance. Three research questions were formulated along with three hypotheses to guide the study. The research design was partly descriptive and partly inferential; and the population was stratified on the bases of type of school, location and gender of the students and teachers. The sample comprised One hundred and eighty (180) science teachers and three hundred and sixty (360) science students drawn from senior secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. They were sampled using proportionate sampling technique. The average students’ age was 16 years. The instruments comprised teachers’ perception questionnaire (TPQ), students’ willingness questionnaire on socio-scientific issues and students achievement test on socio-scientific issues in the curricula. Data were collated and analyzed using means and standard deviations inferential statistics of chi-square and analysis of variance were used to test the hypotheses relevant to the study. Results revealed that teachers had positive perceptions about the inclusion of socio-scientific issues in the curricula. The results also showed that students showed strong willingness to study socio-scientific issues. It was similarly discovered that there was significant difference in the performance of the students due to type or location of school. It was recommended that schools should be adequately and equitably funded to addresse the observed gap.

The rate of competition in the education industry in Nigeria is moving at a jet speed due to the recent policies of the government to liberalize the sector. This has made educational administrators to emphasize on the importance of establishing institutional readiness for change and have crafted various strategies for creating it because successful management of change is crucial to any institution to survive in the present highly and continuously depressing economy. Change management is a planned tool for the transition of individuals, groups and organizations from existing position, usually precarious to a required better future state. Thus, managing a change process is as important as change itself. Therefore, this study examines empirically change management effects on institutional performance of Nigerian Federal Colleges of Education. In conducting this study, a total of 400 members of staff of Federal College of Education, Abeokuta was randomly selected from a staff population of 800. Using stratified random sampling technique for data collection. Four hypotheses were advanced to guide the study and data collected for the study were analyzed using Multiple Regression Analysis. The result revealed that a change in strategy has a significant effect on institutional performance and that a change in structure has a significant effect on institutional performance. The result also shows that changes in system through expansion have a significant effect on institutional performance. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made that governing councils and management teams in Nigeria Federal Colleges of Education should be pro-active to changes in such a knowledge-based environment so as to experience smooth implementation of such changes, as they come. Therefore, the study concludes that nothing remains static in the world of knowledge as change is the only thing that is constant. Educational administrators as agent s of change should therefore successfully manage the human side of change in order to avoid resistance to change using the appropriate change strategies, thus, enhancing overall performance of the colleges.

The insatiable quest for comfort, fame and financial security along the course of human history, have continued to dictate human actions on earth. Driven by a perfidious capitalism, the world of the 21st century possessed by, and agog in its frenzied speed towards technological and economic success (developmental equation), appear to be cumulatively antagonistic to all vestiges of nature and its endowments, hence the litany of unfolding deadly global health and environmental challenges. The much celebrated technological appurtenances of the present era, have rather paradoxically promoted man’s anxiety, stress and fatigue, through an adaptive trending deprivation and disorganization of the natural circadian shutdown of restful sleep. On the other front, how can a proactive professional academic be on top of his stock in trade without studious and energy-sapping research, which would always demand sleep denials involving distortion in sleep time/quality and quantity regimen? Unfortunately, this anomaly has permeated all theatres of human endeavor, marginalizing productivity and exacerbating terrible systemic complications and fallouts. Quite phenomenal as it has risen to be, sleep debt has inexcusably been silently accommodated and enamored, hence metastising almost through all aspects of human engagements, due to its attractive face-value, largely masking its cumulative fatal consequences. Poised towards deepening public awareness with regards to this problem, this study, under the cloak of Health History, adopted the eclectic research approach towards unearthing, sieving and evaluating available information. Nevertheless, in order to fully understand the general implications of sleep debt, one has to first appreciate the nature and essence of healthy sleep, hence the quality and quantity. The importance of quantitative and qualitative analysis cannot be ruled out in this study. The paper submits that since sleep debt is a proven human derivative resort posing innumerable challenges to global productivity and development, drastic cautionary measures should guide attitudinal change in all human endeavors to interject and turndown this anomaly.

The paper mainly focuses on the Numerical Analysis of Applied Modulation Techniques from Fundamental Concepts Using MATLAB. The research problem in this study is to implement the computerized graphical user interface for communication engineers for advanced modulation techniques for future wireless communication system. The solution for this research problem is to develop the effective software programming with MATLAB. The specific objective of this study is to contribute the Numerical Analysis for researchers of communication system implementation and students from the communication engineering studies. Before studying the advanced modulation techniques, the impulse response signal is a vital role to enhance the development of communication signals in real system design. In this study, the amplitude modulation and frequency modulation techniques are emphasized for software implementation. The specific implementation flowcharts for the design of graphical user interface for advanced modulation techniques. The physical parameters which are used in this study confirm the real applications for future wireless communication system design methodologies. The simulation results from the graphical user interface in this study approve the advanced modulation techniques for experimental studies in communication engineering related fields. The graphical user interface design in this paper has been accomplished with the help of MATLAB environments.

The study which is ethnographic in nature employs qualitative and acoustic analytical approach to examine [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants in Akan. In all, 30 Akan (Akuapem, Asante Twi and Fantse) native speakers were recorded; ten from each dialect area, made up of five males and five females aging between 35 and 56 who were illiterate or could read little Akan. Words such as bam, kɔm, som, ntɛ, nkã, mpa were put in a carrier frame or were produced in isolation. The Asante and Fantse speakers were asked to repeat the words presented in a carrier frame “Ɔse {key word} anaa?” [ɔsɪ…anaa] three times, as Akuapem speakers were asked to repeat “Ose {key words} anaa?” [ose…..anaa]. The carrier frame was given to 18 participants (9 males and 9 females) to repeat three times, whilst 12 participants, comprising 6 males and 6 females were also given the same word list to repeat three times in isolation. The result showed that on Ҫ syllabic structure (where Ҫ is always a nasal consonant), pause duration and intensity measurement identified it to exist at word-initial and not final. In most cases, it is seen as a nasal consonant at word-initial. It constitutes a syllable alone and more importantly contains pitch which makes it sonorous. Again, CVN is one syllable and so the N at the word final cannot be syllabic.

This research is entitled Illocutionary Acts Analysis of Barack Obama’s Speeches. This research is conducted in order to analyze the utterances of Barack Obama’s Speeches. Speeches became an important media for a president like Barack Obama to deliver message, persuade people, influence audience. The speech making process involved a long discussion between Obama and a particular team since they should consider some language aspects such as lexical choices and sentence structure in order to achieve certain goals. Austin (1975:3) stated that there are three types of speech acts, namely locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. But in this paper, the researchers focus to illocutionary acts. Illocutionary act has five types, they are representatives, directives, commissives, expressive, and declarative (Searle in Leech, 1983:205). So the writer uses the types of illocutionary acts to analyze the utterances of Barack Obama’s Speeches. Problem discussed in this research is what types of illocutionary acts are found on Barack Obama’s speech. This research utilized Speech Act theory of Austin (1962) in analyzing the data. The researched data consisted of two selected speeches delivered by Barack Obama after Osama bin Ladens death: May 1, 2011 and at 2012 Democratic National Convention September 6 2012. And in this research, types of illocutionary acts in Barack Obama’s Speeches are found dominantly is representatives.

The study examined microbiological qualities and loads of “fufu” in selected licensed and non-licensed Chop Bars in the Central Region of Ghana. A guided observation schedule (ICOSFUP) was used to record unhygienic practices from the chop bars. Specimens of source of water for turning “fufu”, mortar, pestle, “fufu” and water for turning “fufu” were analysed for total heterotrophic bacteria, yeast and mould, total coliform bacteria, faecal coliform bacteria, and E. coli on Nutrient Agar, OGYE Agar, M-Endo Agar, MacConkey Faecal Coliform Agar, and Hichrome Agar respectively. Both the Multiple Tube Fermentation and Membrane Filtration methods were used for the analysis. It was found out that water used for turning “fufu” made the strongest unique contribution (Beta = 0.485) to the microbial contamination of “fufu”. All the microbiological parameters tested for far exceeded their standardized limits in “fufu” (16.5-5983.25 cfu/1ml/100ml). Findings of the study indicated that there is high amount of microbial contamination in “fufu” being sold and consumed in Cape Coast metropolis. The study recommended that, the Ghana Tourism Authority and Cape Coast chop bar owners Association should at regular intervals, collect and test “fufu” specimens from licensed and non-licensed chop bars to determine the microbial loads in the “fufu” to reduce the possible sources of contamination in “fufu” preparation in the metropolis.

This study assesses gender differences in the computer literacy level among students in the Introduction to Computer Science course at the Department of Technology Management, Open University of Kaohsiung. We analyzed questionnaires from 50 males and 50 females and conducted surveys on computer literacy, computer attitude, and self-efficacy. The classes were mainly taught online, and the questionnaires were filled out online. Compared with the females, the males had better computer literacy, computer attitude, and self-efficacy. Based on the results, certain aspects must be strengthened for students, for example, the meaning and identification of file extensions, recognition of domain names, simple troubleshooting of computer failures, and use of office software such as word processing and presentations. Additionally, compared with the males, the females’ performances were significantly lower in email-related knowledge and computer software installation experience. These results provide teachers with references for curriculum plans and student counseling.

The purpose of the research is to find out and describe the achievement of students scientific literacy abilities. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The research subjects were 2 classes of VIII grade students each classes consisted of 32 people of Junior High School in Pematangsiantar in Odd Semester 2019/2020 Academic Year. The research instrument used was a scientific literacy test in the form of multiple-choice questions and essays covering the concepts of static and dynamic fluid. For class VIII1 aspects explained scientific phenomena with n-gain 0.64 (64％), design and evaluated scientific questions with n-gain 0.62 (62％) and interpreted scientific data and evidence with n-gain 0.60 (60％). For class VIII2 aspects explaining scientific phenomena with n-gain 0.54 (54％), designing and evaluating scientific questions with n-gain 0.59 and interpreting data and scientific evidence with n-gain 0.60 (60％). The achievement category tended to be moderate which showed that the literacy ability of students scientific competencies in fluid material was moderate. The results of the paired t-test statistics showed that for each aspect of science competency showed sig. <0.05 meant there was a significant increase in scientific competency literacy. The modified inquiry learning model that was used is effective in increasing the scientific literacy of science competence of students in Class VIII of Junior High School of fluid material.

The objective of this article was to appraise scholarly works in the domain of social studies curriculum, prescribe the future social studies classroom and its relevance in national development. Qualitatively, this research is a scholarly analytical literature of authored and co-authored published works of Dr. Isaac Eshun from 2013 to 2019 and other seasoned authors cited in such publications. This study adopted the phenomenological design whereby content or documentary analyses were employed in collating facts, concepts and generalisations of literature reviewed in the social studies curriculum through time and space. The population for the study was purposively selected and included all the thirty-two first year 2019/2020 MPhil Social Studies students of the University of Education Winneba, Ghana. The study was delimited to the conceptions, definitions, scope, content, teaching and learning (classroom management and control, classroom instruction and classroom engagement), and the assessment practices of social studies through time and space. The compilation of salient contents from the themes selected were critically analysed. It was revealed that social studies has been conceived differently through time and space, but its ultimate aim has to do with the solving of contemporary burning issues that are impinging on individual and societal progress. The different conceptions have also led to the varying definitions and scope of content given to the subject through time and space. It is, therefore, recommended that since social studies is seen as a positive attitude building subject through time and space, the Ghanaian school curriculum should be enhanced with the current happenings in the society to help develop the 21st century youth who will be well resourced to selflessly help the country to its developmental path.

Language is a special signal system functioning as the most effective tool of cognition and communication. Through languages, communities can exchange feelings, aspiration, and belief with each other. In Buddhism, language is the means of mission, the soul of dharma protection. Exposed in the written or spoken forms, the communicative processes in languages are basically monitored by argumentation. Language-involved attributes in the media not only include radio and television language but also consist of advertising and marketing languages, etc. Particularly, the linguistic features in Buddhist press are to transfer religious information to the target communities. As a result, language in Buddhist press must be standard, accurate, and easy for perceives to. However, there has been no intensive research on the argumentation in the Vietnamese Buddhist journalism so far. The pertinence of this topic, therefore, lies in its demonstration of the applicability of the distinct and unique language of the Vietnamese Buddhist press in the integrated period. This research applies the argumentation theory to analyze the argumentation aspects in the Vietnamese Buddhist press and point out linguistic features under semantics and pragmatics.

Uncontrollable usage of internet has become a psychosocial disorder that every professional should pay attention to. Many studies outside Nigeria have focused attention on internet addiction among students, medical doctors and librarians. Therefore, this study examined emotional intelligent factors (emotional regulation, expression and utilisation) as correlates of internet addiction among students of the University of Ibadan. Descriptive survey of correlation type was adopted for this study with multi-stage sampling procedure to select 120 students (75 males and 45 females) with age range between 16-48 years. The Schutte emotional intelligence scale r=0.91 and internet addiction scale (r = 0.89) were used to collect data for the study. Research questions were answered and tested. The findings revealed that level of internet addiction of students was high (= 2.19). In the level of emotional intelligent factors, emotional regulation was moderate (= 2.57), emotional expression was high (= 2.14) while emotional utilisation was low (= 2.06). There was significant relationship between emotional expression (r = .232, P < .05), and internet addiction, emotional utilisation (r = .092 > p <.05) and internet addiction while there was no significant relationship between emotional regulation and internet addiction. The independent variables did not jointly contribute to internet addiction. Adjusted R2 = .033; F3,96 = 2.113 and accounted for 6.2％ contributions. Emotional regulation ( = .018; P> .05), emotional expression ( = .103, P> .05) and emotional utilisation ( = .152, P>.05) did not relatively contribute to internet addiction. Students’ emotional regulation, expression and utilisation did not contribute to internet addiction of students of the University of Ibadan. Students should be exposed to training on emotional expression, regulation and utilization and how to control their use of internet on daily basis.

Contrastive parallel-structured sentence (CPSS) is a kind of Vietnamese traditional artistic literature originated from China. Its uniqueness is exclusively manifested by two semantically structured sentences. The first sentence is called the given proposition, and the second is modulated as the opposed proposition. Linguistic units employed in a CPSS are concise, condensed and highly suggestive in their content and form. Normally, the CPSS is composed by a person who delivers ‘given proposition’, and another person who opposes it with an ‘opposed proposition’. However, in other cases, there is also a CPSS made by an individual only. One of the most typical and celebrated of such authors who had composed a great numbers of CPSS was Nguyen Khuyen. Most of the linguistic units used in Nguyen Khuyens Chinese-based CPSS are in opposition rules including: word-formation (single words, compound words, etc.), parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), phrases (noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.), sentences (single sentences, single sentences with auxiliary components etc.), idioms, proverbs, etc. By flexibly using many artistic aspects of language materials, Nguyen Khuyen had proved that there were no Chinese-based CPSS could create difficulties to him. In addition, the author had a very liberal view and pen ignoring many small errors in regular CPSS to create profound meanings through the phenomenon of homonymy and the semantic field. Moreover, the author also created many diverse, wealthy and flexible CPSS by using his excellent vocabulary to convey a greater, deeper and wider meaning than the modest form within other CPSS.

This paper strives to single out the determining factors that impact the sustainable progress of English language policy in Bangladesh. It also argues that the tension revolves around the debate on either accepting English as a language of daily affairs or discarding it emanating from the historical legacy dating back to the colonial period. The sensitivity of the people of Bangladesh to the issue of language choice is a fall out since the Pakistani rule that stigmatized their psyche with the imposition of Urdu as state language. Resultantly, the very proposition of the practice of the English language is often seen with suspicion, especially when the Bangladeshi people come to know the hidden aim of the English Education Act 1835 in the then colonial India. Behind this standpoint, this paper attempts to evaluate the major trends of English education policy in Bangladesh and also explores the related research findings and recommendations for the English language within the pragmatics of a post-colonial mindset and the socio-cultural expectations of the Bengali nation. The study offers useful and effective implications to speed up better English Language Learning (ELL) and framing a sustainable language policy based on the results of reviewed literature and observation.

This study investigated the policy implementation of computer based national examination (UNBK) it referred to human resources, infrastructures, students, methods, and also to find out the problems during the policy implementation of computer based national examination in 2018/2019. The type of research was qualitative. The data collection technique used observations, interviews, and documentations. The subjects of this study were projector and technician UNBK Islamic Senior High School of Darul Muttaqin of Pulau Rimau. The data analyzed included of data reduction, data presentation, and data verification. The results of this study were: 1) The implementation of national examination by using computer based test included three stages, there were preparation, management, and implementation stage; 2) The problems of this study were divided into two parts. First, there were technical obstacles included power outages, inadequate examination rooms, inappropriate server computer specifications, and an inadequate internet network. Second, there were the non-technical obstacles included the mental readiness of students who still needed the guidance to implemented UNBK.

This study aimed at producing instructional media of curriculum 2013 based on information and communication technology for class 1 of SDN 2 Gelumbang on PJOK subject matter, KD 3.8. The product was developed using the ADDIE model in the form of PowerPoint, using interview and questionnaire techniques from the product validators. After going through each series of product development, and the results of the data collected through interviews and validation, it was concluded that the K13-based ICT instructional media that researchers developed had a valid with a very good predicate, and that it was feasible to use.

This study aimed at determining the performance of school’s principals in carrying out the managerial function and factors that influence the performance of the principal in carrying out the managerial function in SD Negeri 15 Pulau Rimau. The data in this study were from 5 people, the principal, 3 teachers and administrative staff. The research method was qualitative with the data collection interview. The results showed that 1) the ability of principals in developing programs had been done well; 2) the ability of school principals to form an organization is also carried out in accordance with procedures by taking into account each component of the school; 3) school principals are able to move the staff of teachers and employees to be able to work in accordance with their respective fields; 4) and the principals ability to optimize school resources has been implemented well. The factors supporting the performance of school principals were adequacy of qualified teaching staff and adequate facilities and infrastructure. While the inhibiting factor was some teachers have not mastered learning technology and conventional learning methods.

This qualitative research aimed at finding out the management of the School Literacy Movement in SMP Negeri 2 Indralaya Selatan. Data were collected using interview, observation, and documentation. The data were analyzed qualitatively using Milles and Hubberman’s Model. The results showed that 1) the planning was carried out through official meetings and socialization to school’s residents and the community; 2) the organizing was carried out by giving responsibilities to vice principal of curriculum, subject teachers, coach of student council, coach of the Spirit, the homeroom teacher and the School Literacy Team; 3) the actuating was carried out by various school activities of literacy which are included in the habituation, development, and learning stages; 4) the controlling was carried out by academic supervision activities, official meetings, and assessment of Literacy Movement. It has a positive impact such the realization of literate schools, some achievements can be achieved by students, and the growth of character. The decision states it must be continued in SMP Negeri 2 Indralaya Selatan.

The ordinal regression method was used to model the relationship between the ordinal outcome variable, in this case, the different levels of students ability regarding the overall learning experience in the application of statistical procedures at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), and the explanatory variables concerning students’ demographics, emotions, attitudes and learning environment in the UWC. The outcome variable for students ability to learn statistics was measured on an ordered, categorical six-point Likert scale. The major decisions involved in the model building for ordinal regression were deciding which explanatory variables should be included in the model and choosing the link function that demonstrated the model appropriateness. In addition, the model fitting statistics, the accuracy of the classification results and the validity of the model assumptions, e.g., parallel lines, were assessed for selecting the best model. One of our main findings is that asking for help, worth of statistics, fear of statistics monitors, affect, cognitive competence, support from significant others, marital status, ethnic group and type of study were the core risk factors of statistics learning with a high prediction accuracy of 75.49％. This finding generates a powerful voice for statistics learning challenges at UWC.

Listening skill is one of the decisive input elements in foreign language acquisition process, but the majority of students often complain of facing challenges, which negatively affects their language competence and learning attitude. Taking a close look at listening exercises designed in course books as well as listening activities taking place in many classrooms, it can be seen that the exercises and activities seem to be impractical, unproductive and partly do not exist in social reality in terms of authenticity, question forms and individual interests etc. Meanwhile, multimedia technology (interactive videodisc, CD-ROM, youtube, apps etc.) become more and more accessible to both teachers and students, so its potential as an effective option enhances and allows them to get integration of text, graphics, audio, and motion video with a wide range of issues and domains. To conduct the research, students were introduced and assigned broad listening activity and the assignment would last for 4 weeks. The data was collected by depth interviews and questionaires and teachers’ perspectives on students’ outcomes., Based on Krashen’s hypothesis, this paper will recommend and share some practical types of listening tasks, learning approach and its implications for speeding up the students’ foreign language acquisition process, especially for improving students’ speaking skill.

Dating violence is a social and public health problem that is associated with negative physical and psychological health outcomes. The study examined the relationship between emotional punishment, instrumental violence and dating violence among male and female undergraduate students of university of Maiduguri. The study used a survey research design. Three hundred and eighty-four (384) copies of questionnaires were administered but three hundred and fifty-six (356) copies were retrieved, making 93％ return rate. The analysis of the data collected was done using descriptive (charts, frequency counts and percentages) and inferential statistics (Chi-square). The result of the study revealed a significant relationship between emotional punishment, instrumental violence and dating violence among male and female undergraduate students [(x2= 12.945, P<0.05); (x2= 26.000, P<0.05)]. The researchers recommended that the safe dates program targeted to 100 and 200 levels, which reflects the suggested levels and age at which dating violence programs should be implemented by the Management of University of Maiduguri.

Chronic cough is a worldwide problems caused by both usual and unusual bacteria. In present study we have searched the atypical organisms; Bordetella Pertussis, Clamydia Pneumonia, Mycoplasma Pneumonia in nasopharyngeal secretion of cases with  prolonged  cough (>2weeks) by Real time PCR. In a prospective cross sectional study we selected 170 children with prolonged cough (>2 weeks) and their close contact persons including 45.9％ male and 54.1％ female with mean age 27.3±23.8 years, during 2008-2010 in Rasoul Akram Hospital  a reffering hospital in Tehran, Iran .We searched DNAs of 3 atypical infection (C. pneumonia , M. Pneumonia ,and B. pertussis)  by Real time PCR in nasopharyngeal secretion of  cases. Fever seen in 50％ of cases, 34.3％ of cases had contacted with other cases with prolonged cough, abnormal chest x-ray detected in 61.6％. Other symptoms (convulsion, conjunctional hemorrhage …) except the chronic cough reported in 67.6％ of cases. C. pneumonia and B. pertussis detected in 4.8％ of cases but M. pneumonia DNA had not found in any cases. As conclusion, C. pneumonia and B. pertussis have a minor role (2.4％; 2.4％) in patients with prolonged cough. (>2weeks) .Most positive cases had previous contact, 50％ was febrile and had abnormal chest X ray. Direct detection of Chlamydia pneumonia by polymerase chain reaction on nasopharyngeal aspirates is highly correlated with active infection .In the late stages of prolonged cough serological testing may be more beneficial for obtaining a microbiological diagnosis.

This paper is concerned with the story of Queen of Sheba (Bilqis) and her tactful wisdom in avoiding being involved in a war against King Solomon as tackled in the Scriptures, especially the Quran. As an extremely tactful queen, Queen of Sheba could shun any risky confrontation that eventually might lead to war against King Solomon at that time. This study is intended to show to what extent such a prudent queen could lead her sovereignty to safety and thriving. By avoiding being obsessed with declaring war against King Solomon, Queen of Sheba attained many privileges that belong to both her personality and her subjects.

This research originated from the results of a preliminary study of needs analysis obtained through interviews with the Headmaster of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Palembang, it was concluded that Headmaster of Madrasah Ibitidaiyah did not conduct academic supervision appropriate with the procedure, because they did not know the procedures for implementing supervision. In this study we develop a module of academic supervision of the Headmaster of the Madrasah Ibtidaiyah that is valid, practical and effective. The sample in this study were Headmaster of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah with accredited A, B and C status totaling 10 Madrasah and 8 supervised teachers to see the impact of implementing academic supervision after the use of the module. The results of this study concluded that the module developed was feasible because it was declared valid, practical and effective.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of constructivist approach on pre-service teachers’ mathematics achievement and the difficulties they encounter in translating and solving word problems. The design was a quasi-experimental. A sample of 120 pre-service teachers was used in this study. A diagnostic pre-test and post-test questions and a questionnaire were used to collect data for the study. The questionnaire was used to examine the difficulties pre-service teachers encounter during translating and solving word problems. The test items were also used to determine the effect of the constructivist approach on pre-service teachers’ mathematics achievement. The findings of the study showed that students’ conceptual understanding and performance in word problems was largely improved after instructions based on the constructivist approach. The study also revealed that majority of the pre-service teachers appealed more to the constructivist approach than the traditional method.

Schism, which is the breaking up of churches into different groups due to organizational and other ministerial differences, has been an endemic and controversial phenomenon in the Church in recent times. It has brought about different groups among the Christians. While some groups subscribe to its relevance in engendering evangelism and church growth, others are of the view that it causes rivalry and sharp differences within the body of Christ. It has led to proliferation of Churches and emergence of splinters groups thereby causing friction and creating other adverse effects on Christian unity. The paper revealed that most of the churches in Nigeria emerged as a result of one form of schism or the other from the existing churches, and much of what we call “mission expansion” or “church growth” in Nigeria today is much of sheep stealing, sheep swamping, and building up of self empires than real expansion of Gods kingdom. It is from this perspective that this study re-examined the concept of schism and its effects on the Nigeria Centre for World Mission (NCWM) Ibadan Nigeria, a fast growing African Instituted Church with a view to nipping the problem arising from schism in the bud.

The purpose of this study was to identify factors responsible for the poor academic performance of pupils in Wamfie Circuit Junior High Schools. Descriptive design was used. Population for the was made up of two-hundred and five (205) pupils, twenty-five (25) teachers and four (4) schools in Wamfie circuit Junior High Schools. Simple random and purposive samplings were used to select pupils, teachers and Junior High Schools for the study. The main instrument for the study was questionnaire. Data was analysed using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) to generate figures, frequencies, percentages and tables. The study revealed that, the factors responsible for poor academic performance pupils Wamfie circuit Junior High Schools in of Dormaa East District include pupils and teacher absenteeism, pupils and teachers’ lateness to school, inadequate teaching and learning materials, poor parental involvement in PTA meetings, parents not providing pupils with subject text book and breakfast.

Productivity of workers is fundamental to economic growth and it is hallmark for development of any organization, it is demanded by management of such workplace. Librarians’ productivity in any university library is fundamental to the growth of such university, this could be greatly enhanced when such librarian has high level of job satisfaction and be emotionally balanced. The study investigated the impact of job satisfaction and emotional intelligence on the productivity of librarians in Nigerian public university libraries. It specifically focused on the relationship between job satisfaction and productivity of librarians on one hand, as well as the relationship between emotional intelligence and productivity of librarians on the other hand, in public university libraries in Nigeria. The paper adopted the correlational survey research design. Its population consisted of 1,254 librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria, from which 923 were selected using simple random sampling. The research instrument used was a self-developed questionnaire. A response rate of 67.2％ was achieved. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed a combined relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction on the productivity of librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria. It concluded that a librarian with high level of job satisfaction and has good knowledge of his or her emotion i.e. able to manage and control it will experience higher productivity in the workplace – university library. The study recommended that university library management should continue to promote values that would boost emotional intelligence and job satisfaction that would enhance productivity of its workforce, and that no faculty member should be given undue attention at the expense of others. In other words, every faculty (librarians inclusive) should be treated equally.

This study empirically assessed reasons for the persistence of corruption in Nigeria in spite of measures put in place to curb it by successive administration. Discussions about corruption management often include the genuineness of the various tiers of government in controlling the antecedent factors of corruption. Five hundred and forty respondents were randomly selected to participate in the study. The data for the study were collected using validated questionnaire and structured interview. One research question was raised and analyzed using simple percentagesat0.05level of significance. The findings indicated that delayed payment of salaries on time (54.3), celebrating people who are rich it not minding the sources (62.8％); and not punishing people for offence committed make others to do the same (54.6％) are some of the reasons for the persistence of corruption in Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study recommendations were made.

Based on the understanding and the brief review of developing process of reflection, the article is aimed at unveiling the significance of reflective teaching in three dimensions: for a teacher’s career advancement, for teaching itself, and for the making of a reflective teacher and the students with key competences. Effective reflection supports a comprehensive and sustainable development in teaching, thus benefiting both teachers and students.

This research analyzes the ethnography of communication used in the short story of Romeo and Juliet using both S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G and Speech Event theories of Dell Hymes (1972). This research is aimed to explain the elements of ethnography of communication from the point of view of both Hymes’ model and describe the inference in the use of the elements of ethnography of communication within the short story of Romeo and Juliet. This research uses a descriptive qualitative research design. Based on the analysis of this research, the researcher finds; there are 4 settings and scenes, 12 participants, entertaning and amusing ends or purposes, 13 act sequences and content, 17 keys or tones, verbal and casual speech styles of instrumentatilites and channels, norms of loving people, and narrative as well as romance tragedy form of style.