The most distinctive contribution of the American dramatist Tennessee Williams to American theatre,is his studies of Southern Madames.This essay is to depict how the Southern belles,the delicate,lonely and vulnerable dreamers,as Amanda Wingfield and her daughter,Laura in The Glass Menagerie,and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire,surrender and lose themselves thoroughly with progress of historical and social development.
Task-based language teaching(TBLT) has been a prevalent teaching practice in the TEFL field in the recent years and its momentum for striving to be the legitimate one has never ceased. The present study tries to provide a theoretical foundation for its application in the communicative learning approach of English as the second language(ESL),namely the collaborative learning mode.
The present study is conducted by looking into students’ vocabulary notebooks.The subjects of the research are 44 sophomores from the Foreign Languages Department,Beijing Wuzi University. The vocabulary notebooks they have kept during an entire semester works as the data of the research. The absence of meaningful collocations enhancing the learning of a word in its fullest sense has been detected together with the lack of various sources choosing words to be listed and the failure of identifying the high frequency words.It provides a useful insight into individual learning style and the pedagogical implications are also highly appraised.The findings of the research might be pessimistic but it otherwise promises a field still worth working in.
