专门针对SQA-NHD国际本科生的学术用途英语写作课程设计

与普通的大学生不同,来自SQA-NHD国际本科项目的学生是一个特殊的学习群体。由于国内高校英语教学的目的、方法、课程设置和考试制度与英语国家大学有所不同,决定了在为这一类特殊学生开设英语写作课程时需要有专门的设计。基于此,结合教学实践,提出了一项针对国际本科生的学术用途英语写作课程设计,以期培养和锻炼国际本科生的英语学术论文写作能力。     

Integrating Computer-Mediated Communication into an EAP course

The development of the computer along with the widespread use of the Internet has rapidly promoted Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) as a very important communication media, which can be used widely and effectively in foreign language teaching and learning. This essay tries to explore the advantages of CMC as well as its proposed application, beginning with the introduction of some concepts related to CMC. From the research history, the rationale of using CMC in foreign language learning is summarised. The context of an EAP course is introduced and some suggestions on using CMC in this course are proposed.     

学术用途英语:概念、教学和语言特点

学术用途英语既是语言教学领域的分支学科,也是一种特殊的语篇体裁,具有其自身的特点。文章探讨了学术用途英语的概念、教学原则,并举例分析了学术用途英语在词汇、修辞、句法、时态和模糊限制语等方面的语言特点,以期对增强学习者的学术用途英语读写能力有所助益。     

基于语料库的专门用途英语文体研究——以土建英语为例

本文拟以自建土建英语语料库为例探讨如何使用语料库词表、检索和主题词功能对专门用途英语的文体特征和语言特点进行分析。借助语料库工具,采用实证手段对目标文本的文体特征进行定量描写和定性分析,进而可以拓展到对其他领域的专门用途英语文体进行分析。     

Assessment policies and academic performance within a single course: the role of motivation and self-regulation

Abstract

Despite the frequently reported association of characteristics of assessment policies with academic performance, the mechanisms through which these policies affect performance are largely unknown. Therefore, the current research investigated performance, motivation and self-regulation for two groups of students following the same statistics course, but under two assessment policies: education and child studies (ECS) students studied under an assessment policy with relatively higher stakes, a higher performance standard and a lower resit standard, compared with Psychology students. Results show similar initial performance, but more use of resits and higher final performance (post-resit) under the ECS policy compared with the psychology policy. In terms of motivation and self-regulation, under the ECS policy significantly higher minimum grade goals, performance self-efficacy, task value, time and study environment management, and test anxiety were observed, but there were no significant differences in aimed grade goals, academic self-efficacy and effort regulation. The relations of motivational and self-regulatory factors with academic performance were similar between both assessment policies. Thus, educators should be keenly aware of how characteristics of assessment policies are related to students’ motivation, self-regulation and academic performance.     

对高职行业英语教学体系构建的思考

行业英语教学对高职英语界来说是一个新的挑战,也是一次自我发展和提升的机遇。文章从语言磨蚀的角度论述了高职行业教学体系构建的必要性,从课程定位、教师、学生、教材、教学模式五个维度来探讨构建高职行业英语教学体系的注意事项。     

A framework to support group essay writing in English for Academic Purposes: a case study from an English-medium instruction context

In English for academic purposes courses, group oral presentations are quite common but essay writing tends to be seen as an individual endeavour, albeit with scope for peer review. This article discusses action research reflecting on student perceptions of a framework to support students through a semester-long collaborative essay assignment in an English-medium instruction university in Macau. The framework presented incorporates collaborative and individual assignment tasks, assisted by information and communications technology, to support the collaborative process and facilitate the assessment of the individual within the group. Even though writing in a group may take more time and effort, it is viewed favourably by the majority of students due to the additional learning gains to be made by writing collaboratively, including the increased quality of ideas and the social interactions (face-to-face and online) required to come to agreement.     

浅析高职高专学生英语学习动机与公共英语教学的关系

公共英语课程是高职高专非英语专业学生必修的一门基础课程。从教学理论上来说,高职院校英语教学必须探索出符合本校学生特点的教学内容和教学方法。所以探索并找到一套适合高职高专院校的课程教学手段是我们高职高专院校任教的老师的职责和义务。学生的英语学习动机不同,公共英语的教学也要跟着做适当的调整,这就是因材施教。它既适应了学生的实际水平,也能使教师有的放矢。     

Learning through engaging in retrospective reflection on a change process in an English course on workplace communication

This study describes a change process of implementing role-plays in a course on workplace communication in English, and of engaging in retrospective reflection. Considering that English education for nursing students in Taiwan has focused on the development of medical terminology and that students’ communicative competence is the main deficiency, the author conducted the change process in a medium-scale district hospital where she worked as a clinical nurse and in a nursing college where she taught English as a part-time teacher. The results show that engaging in retrospective reflection allows a teacher to construct knowledge from experience for professional growth.     

Teaching the book and educating the person: challenges for university English language teachers in China

Recent accounts of college-level English language teaching in China describe environments that, although constrained by the College English Test (CET), are undergoing changes in a number of curriculum areas, including recognition of the need to incorporate communicative approaches and the assessment of practical language abilities. In such times, tensions between the needs and desires of society, teaching institutions, teachers and students are inevitable. In this article, we report on a study involving a group of university English teachers from across China who attended a professional development programme in Beijing in the summer of 2006. We explored the experiences of 83 teachers in their working environments, using four one-page reflective frames, which we distributed at regular intervals during the 2-week programme. Teachers described tensions between the need to achieve socially-oriented and subject-centred goals, such as passing examinations and developing communicative competence (“teaching the book”), and their desire to bring about enduring personal changes in students' awareness of themselves as learners and their approaches to learning (“educating the person”). Like colleagues in other countries and contexts, they faced ongoing challenges in trying to harmonize students' needs, curriculum obligations, and their own theories of best practice.     

Programming MOOCs – different learners and different motivation

ABSTRACT

MOOCs for learning the basics of programming have become popular among people with a diverse range of backgrounds, interests and learning contexts. Studies show that learners who enrol in MOOCs tend to have different motivation from learners in traditional courses, but it is not known how motivation differs for people with different backgrounds. This study aims to describe how the motivational factors behind enrolment in programming MOOCs relate to learners’ characteristics. The data were gathered in the spring of 2017 with a motivation scale (FIEM) from 1,536 participants of the MOOC ‘About Programming’. Using comparative analysis, differences in motivational factors between groups by gender, employment status and previous experiences in programming were found. Correlational analysis revealed that educational level, age and self-evaluated probability of completing the MOOC were also related to motivational factors. Different people are motivated by different factors, indicating that this knowledge could be used to design interesting and motivating programming MOOCs, which are relevant to learners with various backgrounds.     

如何激发中职学生英语学习动力

本文在分析中职学生英语学习现状的基础上,探讨中职教师如何激发学生英语学习动力的问题。提出要从以下几方面来着手:建立良好的师生关系,创造和谐的课堂氛围;改变以往教学方法,调动学生英语学习兴趣;分析当前就业形势,激发学生英语学习动机;运用"赏识教育",增强学生英语学习自信;鼓励克服困难,培养学生英语学习意志。     

军校学员英语学习动机的分析与研究

新的《英语课程标准》指出：英语课程不仅要发展学生的语言知识和语言技能,而且要培养学生积极向上的情感态度,英语课程在开发学生的情感态度方面应发挥特殊的作用.在学生的情感态度中,动机是一个重要的因素之一,学习动机对英语学习起关键作用.依据学习动机的相关理论,对军校学员英语学习动机方面存在的问题进行深入分析,探讨如何采取有效的措施来培养和激发学员的英语学习动机.这些问题的研究,对于提高英语教学质量具有重要的意义.     

基于需求分析的专门用途英语课程设置研究

该文通过问卷调查与访谈方式,从需求分析的角度探讨重庆第二师范学院非英语专业ESP课程设置。调查发现：（1）学生用英语进行专业学习的需求日益增长;（2）教师、学生和企业对于应用写作能力的需求有较大差异;（3）大学英语教师转化为双师型教师具有难度。笔者就调查中发现的问题提出了几点建议。     

公共英语教学中学生学习动机的激发和保持

学习动机的激发和保持对提高学生学习自觉性和教学质量都起着不可忽视的作用。在大学英语教学中,可以通过培养良好的师生关系,因材施教,以学生为中心设计教学,努力创设语言环境以及合理使用奖惩来激发和保持学生的英语学习动机。     

论英语学术语篇中的名词性表达及其话语功能

名词性表达是英语学术语篇中比较典型的话语类型特点之一。对于名词性表达在语篇中的话语功能,语言学家有着褒贬不同的争议。从话语类型分析的角度看,学术语篇中的名词性表达,作为不同言语社团的重要语言机制,是体现不同的话语特点和语用功能,实现学术语体这个总体目标的重要工具。     

English for Specific Purposes and Academic Literacies: eclecticism in academic writing pedagogy

Academic Literacies and English for Specific Purposes perspectives on the teaching of academic writing tend to be positioned as dichotomous and ideologically incompatible. Nonetheless, recent studies have called for the integration of these two perspectives in the design of writing programmes in order to meet the needs of students in the increasingly diverse and shifting landscape of academia. The aim of the present paper is to reflect on how this theoretical integration could be put into practice. Drawing on the design of a research-based writing workshop for postgraduate anthropology students, we argue that rather than a ‘hybrid’ model of writing pedagogy, a theoretically grounded but eclectic approach is needed in order to respond to students’ personal, local, and disciplinary contexts.     

专门针对独立学院英语专业学生的商务用途英语课程设计

与普通本科高校相比,独立学院的人才培养目标应当以市场为导向,以能力培养为本位,培养学生应用所掌握的知识和技术解决实际问题的能力。商务英语的特殊决定了在为独立学院英语专业学生开设商务英语课程时需要有针对性的特殊设计。本文结合作者所在的一所独立学院的教学实践,从课程设计背景、需求分析、课程内容、评估等方面进行探讨,提出了一项专门针对独立学院英语专业学生的商务用途英语课程设计。     

Reassessing the English Course Offered to Computer Engineering Students at the National School of Applied Sciences of Al-Hoceima in Morocco: an Action Research Project

ABSTRACT

In computer engineering education, specific English language practices are needed to enable computer engineering students to succeed in professional settings. This study was conducted for two purposes. First, it aimed at investigating to what extent the English courses offered to computer engineering students at the National School of Applied Sciences in Al-Hoceima were successful in fulfilling the job requirements of the prospective engineers. And the second objective was to devise an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course that is rather related to the field of specialization of the respondents and attends to their communicative needs as well. For these purposes a ‘needs analysis questionnaire’ was devised to identify these students' perceptions of the English language practices used, the importance of these practices, the areas of language use that they need training/teaching in, and their preferences for the English language course. The results stressed the significance of English for computer engineering students. They also identified the students' lacks, needs and interests with regard to English language practices. The study concluded with pedagogical implications.     

Differentiations in motivation and need satisfaction based on course modality: a self-determination theory perspective

Online education has grown exponentially over the past two decades, in large part due to its promise of flexibility and connectivity for students. However, this approach to pedagogy has remained relatively unexamined in regard to issues of motivation and intellectual thriving. Using self-determination theory as a foundation, we assessed the degree to which course modality (namely online vs. face-to-face) led to psychological need satisfaction and quality motivation. Our survey of 240 (n = 240) college students confirmed previous research in which higher quality motivation predicted the satisfaction of autonomy, competence and relatedness, which in turn predicted course and instructor approval. However, in a series of matched-pairs t-tests, students reported lower levels of quality motivation, autonomy support, competence and relatedness in online courses than they did for face-to-face courses.