外国语学院函授论文选题目录
A .The English Language and Linguistics
1.A study of the relative positions of the premodifiers前位修饰语 in English
2.The English elliptical sentences
3.A linguistic study of the progressive aspect
4.A study of English active form with passive meaning
5.Synactic functions of English noun clause
6.Absolute nominative construction
7.On prepositions of place and their syntactic meanings
8.Emphatic patterns in English
9.Some ways of expressing implied negation
10.A tentative study of the functions of English intonation
11.Variant tone patterns in statements, questions, exclamations and commands
12.Color words in English
13.Learned words and popular words – a study of the interrelation between etymology and register
14.substantivized名词化 phrasal verbs
15.A study of syntactic relations of compound words in English
16. A study of meaning relations in English
17.First language acquisition vs. second language acquisition
18. A study of relatedness between language and society
19.On the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the influence of language and culture on each other
20.A preliminary study of the application of the set theory in the semantic field theory
21.Cohesion in English
22.Euphemistic expressions in spoken English
23.Features of science English
24.A tentative study of American English as a regional variety
25.A comparative study of passive voice in English and Chinese
26.Meaning and context
27.A comment on the dictionary of Longman Dictionary of American English
28.Semantic adjustment of word meaning in translation
29.Wording characteristics of journalism and ads
30.A pragmatic study of English habitual expressions
B. Literature
1.On the happy endings in Shakespeare’s comedies
2.A view on the differences of the tragic spirit as expressed in English drama and Chinese drama
3.The characterization of Milton’s Satan
4.The Scottish lass and the Romantic tradition – a study on Wordsworth
5.Byron’s Don Juan and the picaresque hero
6.The structural patterns of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
7.The imagery of death and immortality in Keats’ odes
8.The motifs of death and regeneration in “When lilaces last bloom’d in the dooryard”
9.The treatment of the theme of love in the poetry of the Brownings
10.The characterization of the loyal servant – from Man Friday to Uncle Tom
11.The character of Pickwick and its possible predecessors
12.The function of the moor in Hardy’s novels
13.Evil and punishment – a study of Hawthorne’s major works
14.Journcying towards freedom – an interpretation of the symbols of the river and rafter in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
15.The clash of the finite and the infinite – an interpretation of Moby Dick
16.The art of the suppression of anger – on the meaning of Hemingway’s code hero
17.Fitzgerald and his rich boys
18.A satire on contemporary American society – a criticism of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19.The “luminous Halo” – Virginia Woolf’s theory of fiction and her practice
20.The portraits of failure – on James Joyce’s The Dubliners
C. English Teaching and Learning
1.Teaching English through dialogues
2.Teacher-pupil partnership in middle school English classes
3.On developing intelligence through foreign language teaching
4.Cloze procedure as a pragmatic test
5.Intercultural communication in English leaning
6.Errors in English leaning
7.Grammar vs vocabulary — a dissenting view on the priorities in ELT
8.From a foreign language to a second language — thoughts about the foreign language teaching in our country
9.An investigation of the factors that affect Chinese students’ listening comprehension of English
10.A brief survey of some cooperative aspects of second language leaning and teaching
11.A brief survey of the communicative approach
12.Techniques for motivating students to learn English in junior middle school
13.How to teach English prepositions
14.Achievement tests in foreign language testing
15.Characteristics of an effective English teacher
16.How to design multiple-choice questions
17.An investigation of the difficulties in leaning English pronunciation for Chinese students
18.A survey of the relative advantages of the different techniques used in oral/aural training
19.Teaching spoken English to Chinese scientists and technicians
20.How to master reading skills
21.How to make an oral English class more active and interesting
22.How to use teaching games in English class
24.Bilingual approach in teaching English as a foreign language
25.Analysis of psychological factors in oral English practice
26.Thinking in English while writing
27.A comment on current English textbooks in middle schools
28.The essential points in valuating a successful English class
29.Classroom teaching and after-class work
30.Cultural factors in reading comprehension
31.English teaching academic research
D. American/Western Culture
1.The Civil War and its influence on American history
2.How and why the American Constitution came into being
3.Immigration and development of the United States
4.A brief survey of 1960’s student movement in America
5.The black people’s function in the American Civil war and Lincoln’s contribution to the black people’s liberation
6.American cities in crisis
7.Vietnam War: the America’s nightmare
8.Westward expansion in American history
9.The domestic policies of Roosevelt’s New Deal and its significance
10.Women’s position in American society
11.The declining of the crown – the signing of Magna Carta and its significance
12.The European Community
13.A look at the mass media of today
14.On ancient Roman architecture and sculpture
15.On culture shock