Xinghua Liu

Teaching plans often serve as windows into local pedagogical practices, sociocultural influences, and language learning priorities. Despite their centrality to teaching practice, authentic and detailed examples of teaching plans remain rare.This volume addresses that gap.This book presents 13 teaching plans authored by Chinese EFL teachers working in both secondary and tertiary institutions. These contributions offer unique insights into how English is taught, conceptualized, and adapted within the Chinese educational context. Each teaching plan goes beyond the procedural "what" of teaching to explore the deeper "why"-revealing how teachers align objectives with student needs, select materials in response to cultural and linguistic considerations, and design learning activities that foster engagement and critical thinking. They reflect a blend of traditional approaches and innovative strategies, shaped by curriculum standards, examination pressures, and evolving views on English language education in China. They demonstrate how Chinese teachers creatively navigate between global TESOL principles and local pedagogical realities.As the first collection of its kind, this book carries both practical and scholarly significance. For novice teachers, it serves as a valuable resource for learning from peers and exploring varied approaches to lesson planning. For experienced educators, it offers a platform to reflect on their own practices and engage in comparative pedagogy. For researchers, this volume opens a window into teacher cognition and curriculum enactment in the Chinese EFL context, contributing to the broader global conversation on language education.

Multimodal Perception and Secure State Estimation for Robotic Mobility Platforms Enables readers to understand important new trends in multimodal perception for mobile robotics This book provides a novel perspective on secure state estimation and multimodal perception for robotic mobility platforms such as autonomous vehicles. It thoroughly evaluates filter-based secure dynamic pose estimation approaches for autonomous vehicles over multiple attack signals and shows that they outperform conventional Kalman filtered results. As a modern learning resource, it contains extensive simulative and experimental results that have been successfully implemented on various models and real platforms. To aid in reader comprehension, detailed and illustrative examples on algorithm implementation and performance evaluation are also presented. Written by four qualified authors in the field, sample topics covered in the book include: Secure state estimation that focuses on system robustness under cyber-attacksMulti-sensor fusion that helps improve system performance based on the complementary characteristics of different sensorsA geometric pose estimation framework to incorporate measurements and constraints into a unified fusion scheme, which has been validated using public and self-collected dataHow to achieve real-time road-constrained and heading-assisted pose estimation This book will appeal to graduate-level students and professionals in the fields of ground vehicle pose estimation and perception who are looking for modern and updated insight into key concepts related to the field of robotic mobility platforms.

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.