Under the background of the construction of the new liberal arts, the traditional curriculum system for foreign language subjects cannot meet the market demand. The development space of foreign language majors is increasingly compressed, and the quality of graduates is generally declining. The situation of foreign language majors in universities with Industrial Features is even more difficult due to the weakness of their disciplines, the limited teaching staff and the lack of language learning environment. In this paper, we use literature research and questionnaires to explore the development of "foreign language +" courses in universities with Industrial Features with industrial characteristics, by adjusting course hours, diversifying course settings and offering cross-disciplinary courses. This article provides some ideas and suggestions for the development of foreign language courses and curriculum reform in universities with Industrial Features.

Outcome based education (OBE) has been prevalent in recent years. Under the guidance of OBE and requirement of ideological and political pattern, general academic English has undertaken new course reform in China. This paper focuses on introducing its construction practice in North China Electric Power University from the following aspects: general goal, teaching principle, teaching mode, evaluation methods and teaching effect. The practice research intends to provide new thinking for the construction of general academic English.

The Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka. This novel tells about a young man named Gregor Samsa who has experienced alienation. This research aims to understand the effects of alienation experienced by Gregor Samsa as a major character in The Metamorphosis. Erich Fromm's theory about three mechanisms of escape is used to analyse the effort of Gregor Samsa in solving his psychological problem of alienation. Modern man usually uses three mechanisms of escape by Erich Fromm to reduce the feeling of fear and isolation of burdened freedom when they want to be free. This research uses qualitative research in which the data are in the form of words and sentences in this novella. This study applies the documentary method as the technique of data collection. The data can be taken from various sources, such as documents, books, and journals. This research shows that Gregor Samsa’s alienation has influenced his entire life, family, and society.

“For many people in the West, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet War and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in a peaceful anonymity for the decades that the history of Afghans in 20th century has been largely pacific and harmonious.’’ Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan was a different country in the year 1960 than the one that is apparent to us today. It is history how Soviets invaded the Afghanistan and pulled them in war, following Taliban rule and US invasion in 2001.The once peaceful and cherished nation known as ‘graveyard of empires’ is a mirage today. History witness that since 11th century B.C, different empires and forces have tried to gain control over Afghanistan. This paper is a sincere effort to excavate the layers hidden beneath the facade of Afghanistan.

As appropriate, innovative and diverse business discourse becomes the key to promoting business exchanges between countries and industries, the importance of business genre analysis has also been growing. This paper thus reviews the articles related to "Genre Analysis in Business Context" in SSCI journals from 2012 to 2022, locates the key areas and methods of research in the past decade, with the hope of finding the future path of this academic field.

Under the background of global economic integration, the phenomenon of Chinese culture aphasia has captured scholars’ attention. Based on the questionnaire and interview held in North China Electric Power University, this paper expounds the causes of “Chinese culture aphasia”, and proposes feasible strategies to improve it, aiming to improve students’ ability and their comprehensive language literacy in cross-cultural communication.

This study analyzes the parliament speech delivered by the British queen under the framework of transitivity through the employment of qualitative and quantitative methods. The function and distribution of the transitivity process in the speech are explored, aiming at revealing the linguistic feature of the speech so that the understanding of the linguistic characteristics and the speech content is deepened. The study finds out four process types in the speech, among which the material process accounts for the largest proportion, with the relational process, the mental process and the existential process followed. There is no verbal and behavioral process in the speech. The material process shows the vigorous actions of the government. The relational process makes the power of the government closely connected with the country and the citizens, and the mental process implies the government’s outlook on the future and the confidence to do all the work well. This linguistic pattern shows the seriousness and authority of the speaker and the study concludes that the specific linguistic structure determines the implied meaning of the utterance.