The contribution of sensitivity to speech rhythm and non‐speech rhythm to early reading development

Both sensitivity to speech rhythm and non‐speech rhythm have been associated with successful phonological awareness and reading development in separate studies. However, the extent to which speech rhythm, non‐speech rhythm and literacy skills are interrelated has not been examined. As a result, five‐ to seven‐year‐old English‐speaking children were assessed on measures of speech rhythm sensitivity, non‐speech rhythm sensitivity (both receptive and productive), reading attainment and phonological awareness. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that productive non‐speech rhythm was unable to predict variance in reading attainment independently of phonological awareness and speech rhythm sensitivity. Receptive sensitivity to speech rhythm and non‐speech rhythm were both able to predict a significant amount of unique variance in reading attainment after controlling for age, vocabulary, phonological awareness, short‐term memory and each other. The findings suggest that receptive sensitivity to speech rhythm and non‐speech rhythm, while related to each other, also make contributions to reading attainment that are independent of each other. These findings provide only partial consistency with the general auditory processing deficit theory of reading difficulties, but are in line with the emerging theoretical claim that sensitivity to speech prosody may be implicated in successful literacy development.     

基于Krashen专题阅读的图式知识习得

本文以图式理论为视角,通过分析Krashen（克拉申）专题阅读理论在阅读图式知识习得中的作用,论述了专题阅读理论作为一种二语学习策略在快速构建并激活阅读者合适的图式知识、增强阅读材料的可理解性以及促进二语习得的有效产生等方面较之传统的＂通读＂策略所占的优势。     

West Nile Virus: Using Adapted Primary Literature in Mathematical Biology to Teach Scientific and Mathematical Reasoning in High School

This paper promotes the use of adapted primary literature as a curriculum and instruction innovation for use in high school. Adapted primary literature is useful for promoting an understanding of scientific and mathematical reasoning and argument and for introducing modern science into the schools. We describe a prototype adapted from a published article on a mathematical model of the spread of the West Nile virus in North America. The prototype is available as a web-based resource that includes supplemental pedagogical units. Preliminary feedback from use of the prototype in two classrooms is described and a sketch of an ongoing formal evaluation is provided.     

A Habermasian Approach to Critical Reading

This article explores the connection between critical reading and Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action. It proposes that Habermas’s criteria used for evaluating validity claims in communicative action can be applied in reading texts critically. Analyses of different types of texts are presented to show how critical reading is done in a Habermasian way. This article ends with a discussion of the application of Habermas’s theory in addressing educational issues.     

数字时代教育新使命:炼就数字阅读素养——国际数字阅读素养冲浪式测评研究

国际数字阅读素养进展研究——一项基于计算机的在线阅读测评首次出现在PIRLS2016之中,为数字阅读素养的测评提供了新的思考框架。其试题呈现以下特点:情境创设巧妙生动,追求模拟真实;指示用语亲切友好,提升测试情感体验;答案来源丰富多样,着力跨界提取;界面设计合理美观,暗含深层交互。其测试重点主要为信息定位能力、源评价能力、多文本处理能力、非连续性文本阅读能力、意义建构能力、自我监控能力以及问题生成能力。通过研究获得的启示为:指向契合数字阅读需求的阅读能力;设计以问题生成为导向的阅读任务;模拟真实情境以彰显数字阅读特点;引导学生在测评中发展阅读与研究能力;营造激发个人独特感受的测试氛围。     

浅谈图式理论和大学英语阅读实践

根据英语阅读实践的特点，探讨了运用图式理论提高英语阅读效果的途径；图式理论指导下的阅读实践体现在阅读准备，阅读预测，阅读推理和归纳总结四个方面；在阅读过程中还要处理，协调好与译，写，听，说的关系。     

图式理论与英语阅读教学

图式理论主要研究读者如何运用“先存知识”来进行文本解读。图式理论有助于我们正确把握语言知识、语篇结构、背景知识与英语阅读的关系。加强图式理论知识的建构将大大促进学生对文本意义的理解。     

“Literacy Lift-Off”: an experimental evaluation of a reading recovery programme on literacy skills and reading self-concept

Worldwide, considerable emphasis is currently being placed on the provision of appropriate classroom-based preventative interventions and in-class literacy support, in preference to withdrawal methods of educational support. Many schools in Ireland are currently implementing Literacy Lift-Off in their classrooms. Literacy Lift-Off is an adaption of the well-known Reading Recovery programme. The current study aims to establish whether Literacy Lift-Off improves students’ literacy skills. It further seeks to determine what impact Literacy Lift-Off has on students’ reading self-concept levels. Ninety-two students aged between five years and six years six months (52 boys, 40 girls) attending four Senior Infant classes were recruited for this study. Two class groups were randomly chosen to act as an intervention cohort (n = 47) and two class groups were randomly chosen to act as a wait-list control cohort (n = 45). This experimental study evaluated the Literacy Lift-Off intervention on students’ letter identification, word attack skills, word reading, and reading self-concept beliefs. Intervention students were compared with control students who did not receive the Literacy Lift-Off intervention at pre-test and post-test levels. Results showed that while both groups showed significant change on all dependent variables from pre-intervention to post-intervention, those in the experimental group showed significantly more improvement on word attack skills, word reading and reading self-concept beliefs. This study showed that a whole-class reading recovery programme can be effective in improving literacy skills and reading self-concept.     

推理技巧在英语阅读理解中的运用

推理判断与阅读密不可分,它直接影响着阅读效率。结合实例介绍和说明阅读中常用的推理技巧,帮助学生在实践中加以运用,以达到提高其阅读效率和质量的目的。     

阅读任务对中学生阅读素养的影响与启示--基于PISA 2018的数据分析

为了探究阅读任务对学生阅读素养的影响,基于PISA 2018中国北京、上海、江苏和浙江四省市学生的测评数据,将经常与较少执行阅读任务的学生的阅读素养测评结果进行比较。研究发现:不同的阅读任务对学生阅读能力的影响不一,其中“提出看法”与“回答问题”两项任务更有利于提升学生阅读能力;9项阅读任务都有助于发展学生的阅读兴趣,优化学生阅读自我概念;在培养学生阅读元认知能力方面,9项阅读任务的效果并不如人意。这些启示语文教师要基于不同阅读任务的特性,设计最佳任务组合优化教学;反思阅读任务的执行过程,提高阅读任务有效性;强化阅读策略教学,提升学生阅读元认知能力。     

Adolescent Literacy in Europe — An Urgent Call for Action

This article focuses on the literacy of the adolescents who, in most European countries, are about to leave or have recently left basic education with the assumption that they have the command of functional literacy as required in and for further studies, citizenship, work life and a fulfilling life as individuals. First, the overall performance level in the EU member countries with a special focus on poor literacy is examined. Also, the most persistent inequities in adolescent literacy are reviewed, including the gender gap, the socio-economic gap, the migrant gap and the digital gap. Secondly, the focus turns to developing adolescent literacy and reading education in Europe in a constantly changing global context with increasing literacy demands calling for a lifelong and a life-wide development of literacy. The article outlines elements of effective literacy education for adolescents in Europe.     

Reading aloud: A way for parents to support their children's growth in literacy

Parents can form a vital link to literacy and later school success by encouraging literacy and language modeling in their daily communication with children. This article describes a study in Head Start classrooms in Florida and North Carolina where teachers used a book lending system and high quality books which they shared with children and families. Strategies for teachers to assist parents in providing support for emergent literacy are given. Ways to help families see the importance of their practices and encourage the use of these ideas as part of their daily routines are shared.     

小学生阅读数学课外读物的意义与实践

阅读国学经典的重要性受到越来越多的认同,小学生阅读数学课外读物的意义及其实施也应该得到重视。阅读数学课外读物对于培养学生的问题意识、引导学生运用所学解决生活中的数学问题、提升学生的数学素养有着极其重要的意义,科学地指导学生数学课外阅读成了数学老师的必研课题。     

小学生阅读数学课外读物的意义与实践

阅读国学经典的重要性受到越来越多的认同,小学生阅读数学课外读物的意义及其实施也应该得到重视。阅读数学课外读物对于培养学生的问题意识、引导学生运用所学解决生活中的数学问题、提升学生的数学素养有着极其重要的意义,科学地指导学生数学课外阅读成了数学老师的必研课题。