Acknowledgements My study at the College of International Studies will soon come to an end and, at the completion of my graduation thesis; I wish to express my sincere appreciation to all those who have offered me invaluable help during the four years of my undergraduate study here at Tai Zhou Institute of Nanjing university of Science and Technology.

Firstly, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Xu Guixiang, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of the writing of this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form.

Secondly, I should give my hearty thanks to all the other faculty members of the Department of English for their patient instructions in various courses and their precious suggestions for my study here.

Lastly, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.

中华人民共和国教育部制订的《九年义务教育全日制初级中学英语教学大纲》(试用修订 版 )(2002一11一25)明确指出，义务教育阶段初中英语课程的目标是:“??激发和培养学生的学习兴趣，帮助学生树立自信心，养成良好的学习习惯，发展自主学习的能力，形成有效的学习策略;使学生掌握一定的语言基本知识和基本技能，建立初步的语感，获得初步运用英语的能力，为真实交际打下基础”。在词汇学习方面，大纲要求学生在初中阶段完全掌握大约800个可产出性单词，短语200条 ;100一 400个可认读单词。然而，我们发现大多数学生无法达到这一目标。他们甚至无法正确拼、读、理解这些单词、短语，更不要谈提高其交际能力。根据本文作者多年的教学经验，造成这一现象的主要原因是学生缺乏学习英语词汇的兴趣一一单调乏味的传统词汇教学法使得他们对英语词汇学习感到疲惫而无聊。语言学习者非常清楚掌握足够量的词汇对学好一门语言的重要性。因此，作为一位语言教师，其主要任务应该是探索出一种简易而有效的教学方法使学生能够愉快而高效地学会词汇。在本论文中，作者采用了一种令人兴奋的词汇教学法一一游戏授词法教授初中学生生词。根据心

理学的动机理论和青少年特有的心理特征，由于参与游戏类活动而使大脑神经被激活的青少年无论学习任何材料都会显得简单而有效.为了满足初中英语词汇学习的需要，本研究旨在调查以下问题:1)游戏授词法是否能够激发初中学生英语词汇学习的兴趣;2)对于初中学生来说游戏授词法是否比传统授词法更有效;3)通过游戏方式教学生英语单词的发音、拼写、多重含义以及搭配是否能够提高初中学生的英语综合能力。通过问卷调查及分析，本研究希望得出以下结论:

1)通过游戏授词能够激发初中学生英语词汇学习的兴趣。

2)通过游戏授词能够提高初中学生对英语词汇的有效掌握。

3)通过游戏授词能够提高初中学生的英语综合能力。

It was described in the syllabus published by Education

Department of China in 2002, clearly pointed out, the stage of English curriculum aims of compulsory education in junior school:" ... ... cultivate and stimulate the students' interest in learning, help students build their self confidence, develop the good study habits, develop their autonomous learning ability, form the effective study strategy; make the students master the basic knowledge and basic skills of language, establish an initial sense of language, to obtain the initial ability in using English, lay a foundation for the real communication". In

vocabulary learning, it requires students in junior school should completely master approximately 800 output words and 200 phrases, 100 to 400 memorized words. However, we find that most of the students fail to achieve this goal. They even cannot correctly to spell, read, understand the words, phrases and let alone to improve their communicative ability. According to the author’s research for several months, the main reason to cause this phenomenon is the lack of students’ interest in

learning English vocabulary – the monotonous traditional vocabulary teaching method on English vocabulary learning makes them feel tired and boring. Language learners are clearly known to grasp sufficient vocabulary is very important in learning a foreign language. Therefore, as a language

teacher, its main task is to explore kinds of simple and effective teaching methods to enable students to learn vocabulary pleasant and efficient. In this paper, the authors adopt an exciting vocabulary teaching method - game award to junior middle school students' vocabulary lexical teaching. According to Krashen’s (1981) monitoring theory, the psychology of

motivation theory and adolescent psychological characteristics, due to the involvement of the game activities so that the brain is activated by adolescents regardless of much material will be simple and effective.

In order to sacrifice the needs of junior high school English vocabulary learning, this study aimed to investigate the following questions:1) whether the games can stimulate students' interest in English vocabulary learning; 2) for the

junior high school students whether the games are award more effective than traditional teaching method; 3) whether the way of using games to teach English vocabulary can improve the

students’ comprehensive ability, such as pronunciation,

spelling, words meaning and collocation of multiple meanings. Through the questionnaire survey and analysis, this research hopes to reach the following conclusion:

1) English vocabulary teaching through games can stimulate students' interest in learning English vocabulary.

2) English vocabulary teaching through games can improve the mastery of words of the junior high school students.

3) English vocabulary teaching through games can improve junior high school students ' English comprehensive ability.

Interest is the key in language learning, stimulate students' interest in English learning of junior middle school stage is an important task in English teaching. English teaching should pay attention to the combination of students' psychological and physiological characteristics, is conducive to arouse students' interest in learning. The game teaching method is in the teaching as far as possible the boring language phenomena into students are happy to accept, vivid and interesting game form, for the students to create a rich language communicative situation, make the students to play high school, learning to play, be in junior middle school English classroom teaching method.

第二篇：英语本科毕业论文注释、文献与致谢样本

四川大学本科毕业论文 《喜福会》中的中国文化背景分析

Notes

(1) The three cardinal guides: ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife.

The five constant virtues: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, knowledge and sincerity.

(2) Lao Tzu: The founder of Taoism. Born in the State of Zhou in the Spring and Autumn Period,

he worked for some time in the Zhou government. He was searching for a way that would avoid the constant feudal warfare and other conflicts that disrupted society during his lifetime. The result was his book: Tao-te-Ching, which contains about 5,000 words on dao and de, or the way and its functions. Others believe that he was a mythical character.

(3) John King Fairbank: A Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University

and director of the East Asian Research Centre at Harvard.

(4) Wuxing and Fengshui: Wuxing or the Five Elements are: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.

They are the grounding theory for yin-yang balance. The Five Element theory views the Universe and its functioning as being cyclical and interactive. Accordingly, all of the “ten thousand things” within it are interdependent. Fengshui, or geomantic omen, is closely related to Wuxing. The Fengshui theory holds that the location of a house or tomb has an influence on the fortune of a family. Taoists believe good Fengshui could keep the yin-yang balance and could bring fortune.

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Acknowledgements

First of all, I would like to express my appreciation to all the teachers at the School (College) of __________, Sichuan University, whose instructions and guidance have made my three/four years at the university a truly rewarding experience. In particular, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to Prof. ___, Prof. ___, … and Prof. ___, from whose lectures I have profited tremendously over the past few years.

Words fail me when I try to express my heartfelt thanks to my supervisor, ____, for all his/her inspiring ideas and kind help throughout the process of my thesis writing. Without his/her helpful suggestions, guidance and patience, the completion of this thesis would not have been possible.

My thanks also go to my fellow classmates and friends who have rendered me their generous help.

I am particularly grateful to my parents for their strong support and deep care given to me during the process of my thesis writing.

I am also deeply indebted to the authors mentioned in the bibliography. Their academic researches have given me a great deal of inspiration.

It is my pleasure to dedicate this thesis to them all.

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