Thomas Jefferson&apos's Natural History Writings and the Construction of American National Culture

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题名:	Thomas Jefferson&apos's Natural History Writings and the Construction of American National Culture
作者:	Lu, Li-ru
贡献者:	Two experimental word-learning tasks were used to investigate the effect of exposure to rhyming words on L2 word learning among 120 fourth-grade Chinese-speaking children. The children were divided into four groups. Two groups were randomly assigned to a pre-exposure word-learning task and the other two a direct word-learning task. In the pre-exposure word-learning task, one group of children were told a story containing words which rhymed with the target words to be learned whereas the other group heard a story containing words that did not rhyme with the target words. In the direct word-learning task, one group directly learned three rhyming words without pre-exposure to rhyming words in a story and some directly learned three non-rhyming words. The results revealed that pre-exposure to rhyming words embedded in a story did not affect children’s new word learning. However, learning rhyming words together facilitated free recall and word-referent association in a production task. These results suggest that phonological manipulation in the rime unit of the new words provides a cue to the phonological shape of the new words, which facilitates the construction of phonological representations as well as the mapping of the representations to referents.
关键词:	Thomas Jefferson Natural history writing The construction of American national culture Notes on the State of Virginia Instructions to Captain Lewis
日期:	2010-06
上传时间:	2012-11-30 20:53:35 (UTC+8)
出版者:	臺北市立教育大學人文藝術學院英語教學系
摘要:	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is a late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century American writer who is the principal author of The Declaration of Independence (1776) and who composes many works about political philosophy and statesmanship. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, most critics regard Jefferson as one of the great philosopher-statesmen because his writings often advocate the ideas of democracy, human rights, liberty, and political independence. Completely different from this perspective, this essay focuses its emphasis on Jefferson’s effectiveness as a natural history writer. The aim of this essay is to point out that through his natural historical discourse in Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) and letters, Jefferson describes and studies the flora, fauna, geography of America, helping ground American national culture upon the land, thereby constructing a distinctive national culture for early America. In this way, this essay hopes to refer the readers interested in an alternative view to the writings of Jefferson.
關聯:	北市大語文學報外國語文領域 4期頁69-84
显示于类别:	[人文藝術學院] 北市大語文學報

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