The linguist Robert Lado defines the goal of learning a foreign language as " the ability to use it, understanding its meanings and connotations in terms of the target language and culture, and the ability to understand the speech and writing of natives of the target culture in terms of their meanings as well as their great ideas and achievements" (Lado, 1964: 25).

大学生新生心理健康调查

Objective： To investigate the mental health of freshmen in Xiamen Un iversity. Methods: A total of 2 226 freshmen of 1998 from Xiamen University comp leted the SCL-90. Results: There were 153 students who sco red above 3 on one or more sub-scales. The most common mental health problems were compulsion, interpe rsonal sensitivity, and paranoia. Students from the College of Foreign Language, Art Education, Medicine, and Humanities reported more mental problems than thos e from the College of Computer and Information Engineering, Physics and Electrom echanical Engineering. Girls were more likely to suffer from phobic anxiety, dep ression, somatization, anxiety, and interpersonal sensitivity than boys, and the y were less hostile than boys. Conclusion: The mental heal th conditions were fou nd to be different for students from different colleges and departments. There w as also significant gender difference in major mental health problems.

Today we are living in an information era. Everyone can see what a tremendously change has been brought by the using of the computers. The advent of the computer chip let us embed our smarts in everything from satellite to greeting cards to internet. 　　People said that the human genome project is the second "Apollo". Human Genome Project, the international effort that is expected to unravel the structures of all 30 000 to 35 000 or so human genes by 2003. But deconstructing the genome is only the first step-like learning to pick out words in a foreign language before grappling with their meanings. Realizing the gene revolution's potential will require understanding how genes collaborate to cement memories in our brains, say, or how they malfunction to change a healthy adult into one dying of cancer. That's the goal of the second phase of the revolution, functional genomics.

医学院校研究生双语教学的调查与思考

原版教材是指直接从国外引进的未经过翻译的教学资料.双语英文Bilingual直接的意思就是Two Languages(两种语言),根据<朗曼应用语言学词典>所给的定义,双语教学是指The use of a second or foreign language in school for the teaching of content subiects(能在学校里使用第二语言或外语进行各门学科的教学).

Second language (L2), in a broad sense, is a language learned or acquired after the native language.The term has a narrow sense when it contrasts to the term"foreign language"(FL), in which second language"functions as a recognized means of communication among members who speak some other language as their mother tongue", and the foreign language"plays no major role in the community and is primarily learnt only in the classroom."[1]Ignorance of the differences will result in confusion in the practice of language learning, teaching and research work.