Teachers’ Practices of Inquiry When Teaching Investigations: A Case Study

Teacher practices are essential for supporting learners in scientific inquiry practices of framing research questions, designing and conducting investigations, collecting data, and drawing conclusions. This study examines instructional practices of two Grade 11 Physical Science teachers engaged in teaching practical investigations. Data were collected from video recordings of teachers?? enactment of pre-laboratory, laboratory and post-laboratory practical investigation lessons. Other data sources included video-based classroom observations, teacher and learner interviews, and artefacts, such as teacher handouts, supplemental materials and learner work. The results suggest that when teachers introduce practical investigations, they vary in the practices they engage in as well as the quality of their use of these practices. Implications for teacher practices of scientific inquiry are explored.     

The Application of Audio Lingual Method to Sixth-grade Primary School English Teaching——A Case Study of New PEP Teaching Material

The audio lingual method is a distinctive teaching method centering on listening and speaking, which is widely used in English teaching for many years. I analyze the sixthgrade primary school English textbooks with the application of this method. Through analysis, I consider that the audio lingual method is suitable for English teaching of primary school students since oral practice is their main teaching aim.     

The Proof of the Pudding?: A Case Study of an “At-Risk” Design-Based Inquiry Science Curriculum

When students collaboratively design and build artifacts that require relevant understanding and application of science, many aspects of scientific literacy are developed. Design-based inquiry (DBI) is one such pedagogy that can serve these desired goals of science education well. Focusing on a Projectile Science curriculum previously found to be implemented with satisfactory fidelity, we investigate the many hidden challenges when using DBI with Grade 8 students from one school in Singapore. A case study method was used to analyze video recordings of DBI lessons conducted over 10 weeks, project presentations, and interviews to ascertain the opportunities for developing scientific literacy among participants. One critical factor that hindered learning was task selection by teachers, which emphasized generic scientific process skills over more important cognitive and epistemic learning goals. Teachers and students were also jointly engaged in forms of inquiry that underscored artifact completion over deeper conceptual and epistemic understanding of science. Our research surfaced two other confounding factors that undermined the curriculum; unanticipated teacher effects and the underestimation of the complexity of DBI and of inquiry science in general. Thus, even though motivated or experienced teachers can implement an inquiry science curriculum with good fidelity and enjoy school-wide support, these by themselves will not guarantee deep learning of scientific literacy in DBI. Recommendations are made for navigating the hands- and minds-on aspects of learning science that is an asset as well as inherent danger during DBI teaching.     

On“The Five-Step Method”in Teaching Junior English for China

Junior English for China' is based on the 'Five-Step' teaching method: Revision, Presentation, Drilling, Practice, Consolidation. Each step has its own particular methodology and requires the teacher to adopt a certain role. This paper is a discussion of the "Five-Step Method".     

The Improvement of the Teaching Method in Intensive Reading Class

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On Subtitle Translation of Sitcoms——A Case Study of The Big Bang Theory

As we all know that exquisite subtitle translation of foreign film and television series is the fatal elements for them to spread among Chinese audiences. This article is based on Eugene·Nida’s"the Functional Equivalence"principle with three char acteristics of sitcoms’subtitle to study the type, form and features of the Big Bang Theory, which lead to the conclusion of sitcom subtitle’s characteristics. It helps us to analyze its subtitle from six aspects. As the result, the author of the paper makes the conclusion of translation tactic about Big Bang Theory, which could help the subtitle translation of similar sitcoms.     

A study on the Translation of Cultural Elements in TV Subtitles——A Case Study of The Big Bang Theory

With the growing popularity of one country’s TV series in foreign countries,subtitle translation has attracted considerable attention in recent years.The Big Bang Theory(TBBT)is a widespread American TV series whose subtitles have been translated into many foreign languages,and it also boasts its richness in cultural elements,the most typical ones including science elements and religious cultural elements.     

Untranslatability in Onomatopoeia Translation—A Case Study of the Book of Songs

Classical poetry is a kind of special classical literature with highly concise language,rich emotion,profound implication and certain rhythm.The development of poetry translation is related to the spread of Chinese classical culture.There are many opinions about translatability and Untranslatability of poetry translation.The translation of meaning is relatively easy,while the rhetoric technique closely related to the form of expression is more difficult,which is the key to express the poet's feelings.There?fore,this paper aims to explore the untranslatability of onomatopoeia in poetry by combining with the Book of Songs.     

The Communicative Method in the Teaching of Listening and Speaking English

It has been my experience as an Instructress of！lstening and Speaking English Coursethat one of the most difficult challenges Is promoting natural conversation with the students.Many students say that they want more conversation In Speaking classes,but several prob-ferns arise.For one thing,students often do not know what to talk about.They are at a lossas to how a native speaker begins a conversation.     

A Study of Question&Answer Behavior in EFL Teaching——On the Basis of Cooperative Principle

As an Chinese saying goes thatNothing can be accomplished without norms or standards. Thus People always follow Cooperative Principle to produce successful conversations in daily life and the EFL teaching is of no exception. Teachers and students cooperate with each other in classroom while they sometimes flout the principle deliberately. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research on interactions in classroom, especially question & answer behaviors to see how teachers and students observe the Cooperative Principle and analyze underlying causes of their intentional flouting.     

The Influence of Good Education on Women——A Case Study Of Leila,the Heroine of A Thousand Splendid Suns

With the development of society,people are increasingly aware of the importance of education,especially the good education on women.This paper took one of the heroines of a thousand splendid suns——Laila as an example to elaborate clearly the significant influence of good education on women's body and mentality.In doing so,it made an attempt to achieve the purpose of giving a deeper understanding of the process,the obstacles and the significant meaning of education on women.It was also hoped that this deeper understanding would lead to greater input into women's education and their more comprehensive involvement in social and economic development.     

The Impact of Collaborative Reflections on Teachers’ Inquiry Teaching

This study investigates the impact of collaborative reflections on teachers’ inquiry teaching practices and identifies supportive actions relating to their professional development. Three science teachers in the same elementary school worked as a cooperative and collaborative group. They attended workshops and worked collaboratively through observing colleagues’ teaching practices and discussing with university professors about their own inquiry teaching. The pre- and post-treatment classroom observations and comparisons of their teaching reveal that the three teachers were more focussed on asking inquiry-oriented questions in the post-treatment teaching. With additional qualitative data analysis, this study identified supportive resources of professional development. Workshop training sessions and sample unit served as the initiative agent in the beginning stage. Discussions with peers and reflective observation of peer teaching acted as a facilitative agent. Finally, student responses and researchers’ on-site visit comments worked as a catalytic agent for their professional development.     

A Pragmatic Study of Gender Differences in Verbal Communication——A Case Study of Desperate Housewives

Male and Female languages refer to those which are usually used by men and women or those which characterize gender differences. Based on the theories of sociolinguistics and pragmatics, this thesis mainly provides a contrastive analysis of gender differences in conversation of Desperate Housewives from the perspectives of politeness principles. It aims at investigating how the pragmatic principles are violated or observed in the conversations of the characters in the series, finding out some to minimize the misunderstandings in inter-gender communication and achieve effective inter-gender communication.     

A Problem in Junior Middle School English Phonetics Teaching and The Exploration of Its Reasons

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Ongoing Doctoral Study Process to Live by: A Narrative Inquiry into the Doctoral Identity Construction Experiences—A Chinese Case

The study employs a narrative inquiry approach to probe a Chinese doctoral student’s identity construction experiences fraught with interruption and transformation. The longitudinal narratives gathered through participant entries in Evernote, a face-to-face life story interview, and researcher memos, have enabled a dynamic configuration of the intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions characterizing doctoral identity development. Using identity-trajectory as an analytical lens, the study highlights how individual agency is embodied and exercised in institutional, relational, and personal spaces where doctoral identity is formed and contested. Findings are episodically ordered as: beginning doctoral study with great expectations; conceptualizing the nature of becoming a doctoral student; forces that are disruptive to the development of the doctoral-researcher identity; the ongoing process of being mediated by socialization into an extended research community, socio- professional support, and agentic reflexivity over time. The study argues for using narrative inquiry to speak of and express the subtleties and continuities of doctoral students’ experiences. It also provides practical implications for action by supervisors and students in doctoral programs respectively.     

On the Application of the Cohesion Theory in Text Translation——A Case Study of Death of a Pig

Based on the translation of E. B. White's essay ‘Death of a Pig', the essay attempts to analyze the strategies employed to achieve cohesion and conjunction in the target text and emphasizes that in order to reflect the language style of the source text, the translator should use corresponding strategies to ensure the translation is cohesive.