英語研究集刊
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Item Intertextuality as a Constructive Reading Strategy(國立台灣師範大學英語學系, 1998-06-??) 紀鳳鳴The purpose of this study is to investigate how three Taiwanese EFL college readers employ intertextuality as a constructive reading strategy to interpret and comprehend two literary texts. The verbal self-reports, free oral post-reading responses and an oral interview are used to gather data. Case A presents how Liu uses intertextuality to build his reading framework, whereas Case B demonstrates how Chen flexibly changes his reading stance and, in turn promotes his reading comprehension. Case C illustrates how Fun uses autobiographical responses to intertextualize with the current text. This study suggests that teachers should not only help students set up intertextual links, but also support the continuation of building such links.Item Appropriating Formosa(國立台灣師範大學英語學系, 1998-06-??) Shufelt, JohnIn the years following the island's brief occupation by the Dutch East India Company (1624-1661) Western travel writings of Taiwan were few and far between. Two of the principal eighteenthcentury accounts which do exist-Psalmanazar's Description of Formosa (1704-05) and the "Formosa' chapter of Benyowsky's Memoirs (1970)-are the subject of this paper. At first glance threse seem unlikely choices for those interested in the history and culture of Taiwan since Psalmanazar's "account by a native of Formosa" is entirely fraudulent while Benyowsky's account, although not a complete fabrication, is of questionable reliability. But both accounts have had an impact on the historiography of Taiwan and a noteworthy, if minor, influence on Western literature, including Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. To maintain his preeminent position as the Formosan expert, Psalmanazar successfully displaced and discredited the Dutch missionary Candidius as a reliable authority on the island and was able to monopolize European discussion of Taiwan for the first half of the 18th century. In 1771 Benyowsky offered his services as colonial mercenary to any European power interested in getting a stake in Formosa. His account includes a detailed program of benefits, both for himself and his potential European backer.Item Acquisition of Reflexives by EFL Students in Taiwan(國立台灣師範大學英語學系, 1998-06-??) 陳純音; 宋麗梅This study aims to address the question of whether L1 properties influence the development of L2 grammars by examining the EFL students' interpretations of English reflexives. Two hundred and fortythree subjects were asked to take both a true-false judgement test and a multiple-choice test; that is, they had to indicate their judgment on the grammaticality of sentences related to Part A of the Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981). Our experimental results not only support the transfer hypothesis, but also indicate that the number of years of learning slightly influences L2 learners in interpreting English reflexives, but the methodological test design differences do not play a crucial role. Finally, it is shown that subjects' responses to the syntactic constructions are determined by the number of antecedents provided in the test sentences.