Functional Contextualism and Implications for Instructional Design;

This paper intends to show that contextualism avoids not only relativism but also strict scientism and formalism through a discussion about the theoretical background and gist of post-modern scientific philosophy,thus it is the important philosophical formation in post-realism period,and it has provided a base for basic methodology for the reconstruction of scientific philosophy.

Pepper develops a “root metaphor method” and outlines what he considers to be four basically adequate world hypotheses: formism, mechanism, organicism and contextualism, as a way to view the world against the dominion position of mechanism has broad impact on psychology and other social science today.

Linguistic ambiguity can be investigated as a cross-discipline analysis from the pragmatic, contextual and semantic perspectives.

Application of Context Theory in Grammar Teaching via Multimedia;

Context theory is an important part of Discourse Analysis.

Original context theory is intended to describe appropriateness of utterance.

The Implications of Context Theories in Teaching of English Listening;

In order to introduce the theory of context into classroom teaching, this paper use analytical and induction methods to summarize the two issues that we have been researching in the past two years.