A Comparison Between the Audiolingual Approach and the Communicative Approach in Second-Language Teaching

通过分析,比较《听说法》和《交际法》两种外语教学法的理论根据、教学原理和可能的教学技巧,我们发现两种教学法都有自己的优缺点;因此我们应根据我们设置的课程目的和可利用的时间来选择使用两种外语教学法。     

The Communicative Approach in Teaching Higher—grade Intensive Reading Course

I.IntroductionThe Communicative Approach is a modern teaching me-thodwhich aims at developing students'communicative competence.It is gen-erally believed to be suitable for lower grades,esp.in speaking course.Here I boldly propose that this method be adopted into teaching inten-sive reading course for higher grades at college.     

Exploring Problems in Students＇ Evaluation of Teaching in Colleges and Universities and its Countermeasures ——A Case Analysis of A University

本文对A大学的学生评教工作进行了个案分析,指出了其在制度建设、量表设计、反馈改进以及评价结果运用4个方面存在的突出问题,之后提出了针对性的改进对策。本文的个案具有一定的代表性,研究结论对其他高校有一定的借鉴意义。     

Teaching Kids to Care about Jewish Problems: A Noddings’ Approach

Drawing on Noddings’ work on religion and education (1993), moral education (2002), and citizenship education (2005\, 2015), this article contemplates how educators both in public schools and parochial Jewish schools might teach students to care about critical issues confronting the Jewish community historically and contemporarily. Its premise is that the teaching of the Jewish experience is presently deficient in both school settings. The article suggests ways that Noddings’ conceptions of caring (1992), pedagogical neutrality (1993), and critical lessons (2006) can be adapted and applied to the teaching of Jewish civilization in more appropriate, holistic, and nuanced ways. Its implications are applicable to many other American subgroups whose treatment in the social studies curriculum is typically inadequate.     

Towards a Culture‐based Approach to Chemical Education in Secondary Schools: The Role of Chemical Formulae in the Teaching of Chemistry

Summaries

English

The didactic use of formulae in the teaching of chemistry as part of the individual culture should include the logics of their elaboration, and frame them into the basic postulates of the chemical doctrine.

These postulates, in the form that was accepted since the last quarter of the 19th century, are discussed together with the assumptions embodied in the procedures for establishing the formulae as the source of the images of molecular structure. The limitations inherent in these procedures, and the influence they had upon the teaching of chemistry, are examined by analysing the exemplar cases of anthracene and of sydnones. Chemical formulae represent a practical code for the structure‐reactivity relationships, and therefore their current meaning in a quantum‐chemical interpretation is also discussed.

It is suggested that the teaching of chemistry in the age range 13‐14 be based on the postulates and procedures of classical chemistry (1874‐1935), leaving the elementary introduction of quantum‐chemical concepts to the 15‐18 age range.     

The Active Approach A Blueprint for Citizenship Education in the 80 s

School administrators and teachers need to recognize that most persons—including would-be censors of school-related media communications—simply do not understand the complexities germane to measuring the impact of the mass media and the specific messages transmitted to broader audiences via a variety of media channels. In particular, what most laypersons fear are the perceived negative short-term effects while they ignore the critically important question of long-term influence. The author argues that administrators and teachers have a responsibility to better inform themselves vis-à-vis media influence so that they are able to effectively respond to concerns of potential censors of school related materials. They need, in point of fact, to become educators in the broadest meaning of that word.     

The New Curriculum for the Teaching of English——With Which Dialectical Knowledge in Education Is Raised

The paper ,with a theory of Action Research and especially dialectical knowledge, gives a brief analysis and disussion of the New English Standard Syllabus(aim called the New Curriculum) and also points out the difference between the New Curriculum and the traditional syllabus of the basic English course. It is also theoretically and practically designed with some excellent suggestions on how to study the New Curriculum and make good use of English teaching.     

Environmental Education and Networking in Mafeteng Primary Schools： A Participatory Approach

This paper explores a participatory process of Environmental Education （EE） networking in Mafeteng primary schools. It gives an overview of the existing EE efforts in Lesotho, particularly the models schools of the National Curriculum Development Centre. It also provides information about Lesotho Environmental Information Network as the body that drove the networking process. The paper discusses cycles of the participatory process undertaken for the EE networking in Mafeteng schools, including identification of problems, problem solving, reflective workshop and study tour. Finally the paper outlines issues that emerged in participatory EE networking, which include school governance, teachers＇ existing knowledge, communication, decision-making and power relations.     

The Role of Emotion in Teaching

Associated with the recent research results of emotion psychology, the paper addresses the role of emotion in teaching from five aspects. The author presents that emotion plays a primary role of internalization and regulation in the process of teaching and directly restricts the accepting of course contents, the mastery of academic knowledge, the internalization of learning motivation, the regulation of students＇ behavior and the construction of teaching strategies while arousing the relevant emotional experience, which is the psychological base of effective teaching.     

A Self‐Teaching Guide to the Management of Equipment and Material Used in Education in Developing Countries

Abstract

This article covers the background which led to the production of the self‐teaching guide to the management of educational resources soon to be published by Unesco. It gives the structure of the publication, and the text of the Preface and Introduction which serve to explain the guide.

Further information on the guide can be obtained from the ICEM Secretariat, c/o CNDP, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris, Cedex 05, France