浅谈生活化的中职英语课堂

英语,作为人类生活的一种语言交流方式,它来源于生活,并为生活所运用。放眼当今的中职英语教学,我们不难发现,英语是大多数中职学生不感兴趣甚至讨厌的文化基础课。为了扭转这种尴尬的局面,笔者想从学生的生活实际出发,寻找和挖掘各种生活化的教学素材,从陶行知先生的理念和学习方法入手,开展生活化的教学过程,拓展生活化的学习空间,让英语走进生活,让生活融入英语,从而真正使中职英语课堂充满生活的气息。     

关于中职英语生活化教学实践的探讨

中职生的学习兴趣点应当以生活为原点,本文从课堂教学生活化情景的创立、课后作业生活化的设计以及英语学习氛围的营造三个方面,来探讨中职英语生活化教学实践的问题。     

引“生活”之水激学习兴趣

中职英语培养的是应用型、技能型人才,英语教学起着非常重要的作用,如何使英语教学贴近学生生活,符合实际需求,陶行知先生倡导的生活教育思想给我们很大的启迪。当前,生活化教学已得到广大英语教师的认可,并得到了广泛应用。那么,中职英语如何实施生活化教学呢？本文主要结合自身教学实践,就中职英语生活化教学策略谈谈自己的看法与体会。     

试论小学英语教学生活化的内涵及策略

在小学英语课堂中进行生活化教学,有利于将英语学习与实际生活有机结合,激发学生的学习兴趣,让学生高效学习知识。生活化的教学情境促使英语课堂更加生动、真实,对提高小学生整体英语素养有着十分重要的作用。     

初中英语课堂教学生活化的有效措施

随着教育改革的不断深化,初中英语教师的教学想要更好的培养学生的英语学习能力,就应该在教学方式、教学内容上创设更加生活化的方式来进行教学,保证学生能够在这种贴合实际生活的学习环境下有效的提升自身的英语写作能力和交流能力。本文就对初中英语课堂教学生活化提出有效的措施,让英语教师能够进行一定的借鉴。     

中职英语如何构建教学情境，实现生活化教学

教育教学内容是源于生活的一种抽象升华,与生活内容有着密切的联系,但在实际教学中却逐渐造成教学内容和生活内容的脱离。随着新课改的不断深入,教育生活化的理念重新得到倡导,生活化教学模式也在实践中不断展开。本文从情境内容的生活化、教学情境的生活化以及课外实践的生活化三个方面,探究中职英语生活化教学有效开展的策略。     

将数学“生活化”进行到底

新一轮小学数学课程改革明确提出了教学生活化的理念,强调教学应密切联系现实生活。如何实现数学教学的生活化,让数学贴近学生生活的实际,激发学生学习数学的兴趣,引起学生的共鸣呢?本文从数学教学中教材的生活化、教学方式的生活化以及教学评价的生活化等方面提出了建议。     

谈谈中职英语教学之现状与对策

中职英语教学中教与学目的不明确,学习好英语的信心不足、兴趣低,教师必须让学生了解学英语的重要性,注意英语教学培养目标与教学实践相结合同时树立学生学习英语的信心、培养学生学习英语的兴趣.     

实施以学习为中心的教学模式,创新中职酒店英语教学

根据目前中职学生学习英语的现状及酒店英语课程特点所提出的,以学习为中心的教学模式,是以学习化和教师学生＂双主体＂为其教学原则,在教学过程中融合了多种教学法的中职酒店英语教学模式。它在中职酒店英语教学中的实施,能够让中职学生在有限的课堂时间内学习到尽可能多的相关专业知识,并掌握运用英语语言的能力,切实地解决了中职酒店英语课堂教学中的实际问题。     

中职学生英语学习中的情感障碍及其对策

据调查,中职学生的心理障碍超越了英语学习的各种障碍。这就意味着：当前的中职英语教学,只有帮助学生消除负面的、消极的英语学习心理,引导学生战胜英语学习中的情感障碍,才可能真正地改善英语教学的效果,提高英语教学的效率。文章分析了中职学生所面临和存在的情感障碍,并提出了“善于发现学生的长处、善于使用鼓励性评价语、建立融洽的师生关系、使英语课堂生活化、优化英语学习评价方式”等对策。     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

Low doses of a red wine ingredient figh diabetes in mice

Aresearch group led by Prof. ZHAI Qiwei from the Institute for Nutritional Sciences under the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences has discovered that even relatively low doses of resveratrol--a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine--can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone insulin, according to a report in the October,2007 issue of Cell Metabolism. As insulin resistance is often characterized as the most critical factor contributing to the development of Type 2 diabetes, the findings“provide a potential new therapeutic approach for preventing or treating” both conditions, the researchers said.     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Molecular motor assembly of a biomimetic system

Active biological molecules and functional structures can be fabricated into a bio-mimetic system by using molecular assembly method. Such materials can be used for the drug delivery, disease diagnosis and therapy, and new nanodevice construction.     

Monoculture Rubber Plantations Have Negative Ef ects on Controlling Splash Erosion

<正>In Xishuangbanna,one of China’s most biodiverse regions,landscape has changed dramatically during the past three decades due to the conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantations.In steep areas,terraces are often constructed before planting rubber trees,which causes two important changes in the soil:the destabilization of soil in the bench terraces and the increased vulnerability of unvegetated riser faces to erosion.Few studies have documented the nature and intensity of erosion on bench terraces.Prof.LIU Wenjie and his colleagues from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden(XTBG)conducted a study in Menglun County(21°5′39″N,101°15′55″E),Xishuangbanna to evaluate the influence