As far as its pronunciation is concerned, though the development is gradual and perhaps not perceptible within a short period of time, significant sound change in contemporary English has taken place in its past half century.

This paper discusses the influence of computer and associated technologies on contemporary English.

The paper makes comparative study among black English, contemporary English and modern Chinese.

Published by Pearson Education China Ltd and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 1999,Active English series reflected the newly achieved results in English linguistics and applied linguistics, includingtheory developed in discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics.

To compare College English with Active English, it seems that the difference is just limited to the teaching materials themselves, actually the reform on the teaching ideas and models concerning Chinese present public college English teaching has been demonstrated: practicality, oracy, authenticity, exchange of information, use of interaction

Contemporary linguistics may be divided into two major camps: formal grammar, represented by Chomsky s generative grammar and functional grammar, represented by M.