Volume 16 Issue 6

In the era of ever-deepening globalization, the importance of second language acquisition (SLA) has grown increasingly conspicuous. Discourse coherence, as the fundamental unit in language communication, serves not only as a crucial metric of a language user's proficiency but also as a core component for attaining effective cross-cultural communication. Nonetheless, within the current second language teaching practices, learners commonly encounter the issue of inadequate coherence in discourse understanding and production. This study conducts a comprehensive review of the mechanism of discourse coherence in SLA and the corresponding teaching strategies. By synthesizing Halliday's cohesion theory, van Dijk's global-local coherence model, and a dynamic coherence analysis framework grounded in computational linguistics, this paper puts forward staged and differentiated teaching strategies. These strategies place emphasis on striking a balance between form-focused and function-oriented training. Moreover, intelligent writing assessment tools (such as TAACO) are introduced to optimize the teaching feedback mechanism. The research findings indicate that systematic coherence-based teaching can significantly enhance learners' comprehensive language application capabilities and foster the coordinated development of their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

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While market vitality has been boosted with the 2014 implementation of the reform creating the subscription-based capital registration system in China's corporate capital regime, new issues about the insufficient protection of creditors' rights and interests have surfaced. Outside formal insolvency proceedings, creditors often encounter difficulties in holding shareholders liable for failure to perform capital contribution obligations under traditional legal mechanisms, resulting in a legal vacuum for remedies. This study, grounded in the current legal framework, systematically examines the substantive impact of the subscription system on the determination of shareholders' capital contribution liabilities and analyzes the institutional roots of creditors' enforcement dilemmas. Through quantitative analysis of relevant judicial cases over the past eight years, this research reveals that in non-bankruptcy proceedings, creditors prevailed in only 28.7% of cases where they sought to enforce shareholders' capital contribution liabilities. Moreover, successful claims were predominantly concentrated in specific circumstances, such as cases involving shareholders' manifest bad faith or instances where the company had already exhibited material insolvency. This empirical data indicates that the current legal regime’s regulation of shareholders' capital contribution obligations remains primarily anchored in liquidation proceedings, failing to effectively address the practical demands for creditor protection under the subscription-based capital system.

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With the continuous advancement of quality-oriented education and social development, students’ psychological resilience and moral development have shown signs of gradual decline. This phenomenon is closely tied to students’ self-recognition and self-exploration abilities. This study explores the use of “four-panel comics” in class meetings to encourage students to draw and share their reflections. Through peer and teacher evaluations, the activity enhances peer collaboration and fosters a stronger sense of belonging within the class, thereby supporting both the holistic and individual development of students.

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The rite of passage into adulthood is one of the most important rites of passage for the Mosuo people. The rite of passage into adulthood ceremony is held in the Spring Festival at the age of thirteen to declare that they have a complete life and have become adults with responsibilities from now on. Changing clothes is the core of the ceremony, in which the Daba and the Daba Scriptures play an important role in the ceremony. The rite of passage into adulthood has the unique functions of strengthening self-knowledge, family education, and transmission of Mosuo culture. The exploration of the origin, process, cultural significance and cultural connotation of rite of passage into adulthood can deeply reflect the value of Mosuo culture with ‘harmony’ as the main connotation, which is of great significance to the inheritance and promotion of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

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As an integrated art form combining language, emotion, and performance, musical theatre has increasingly attracted attention in English language teaching in recent years. Drawing upon educational psychology and language transfer theory, this paper explores the psychological mechanisms through which musical theatre stimulates students' emotional resonance and facilitates language transfer in the English classroom, based on literature review and case analysis. The study finds that musical theatre, through multimodal input and contextualized expression, contributes to improving the quality of language input and expressive ability, thereby enhancing learning motivation. The paper proposes corresponding teaching strategies, aiming to provide both theoretical support and practical reference for the application of musical theatre in English instruction.

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Drawing on 4.8 million unlabeled behavioural events from 17 universities on five continents, this study proposes the Contrastive Self-Supervised and Causal Inference-Based Contextual Predictive Model (CSCI-CPM) to forecast depression risk and quantify the value of counseling outreach for 12 438 internationally mobile students. Twin momentum-updated Transformers learn 128-dimensional, domain-invariant embeddings via an InfoNCE objective, sharply reducing label dependence and campus drift. A doubly robust head jointly models treatment propensity and counterfactual PHQ-9 outcomes, yielding unbiased individualized treatment-effect estimates. Leave-one-continent-out tests lift ROC-AUC from 0.882 to 0.931, cut root-mean-squared PHQ-9 error by 0.41, and trim PEHE to 0.027, surpassing five baselines at p < 0.01. A 16-week Thompson-sampling simulation with 25 weekly counseling slots lowers unmet-need days by 41.6 %, raises outreach to low-SES learners from 21 % to 34 %, and shrinks equal-opportunity gaps to 0.019. Real-time inference executes in 18 ms at < 0.001 kg CO₂-eq per student-day, enabling sustainable on-premise deployment. Clinician review validates 87 % of alerts, while integrated-gradients explanations highlight language-switch entropy, night-screen bursts, and weekend immobility as salient risk signals. CSCI-CPM thus offers a scalable, culturally responsive, and privacy-preserving framework for proactive mental-health governance in global higher education.

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