Title: A Contrastive Discourse Analysis of VOA Special English News and Standard English News
Abstract: VOA Special English is very popular among English learners who think it is helpful to improve learners' listening profi-ciency,or even improve their English.The present paper analyses two discourses,one from VOA Standard English News,the other from VOA Special English News,which are of the same content.Based on the theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics,this paper explores the features of the genre of broadcasting news and the specialty of VOA Special English,as well as how it is designed for English learners.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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