Feedback——To be or not to be

Triggered by different outcomes from the students, the author began to think over the theories and practices of feedback in teaching and learning. So this essay is discussing the purposes and importance of providing feedback to students as well as how to assure an effective feedback.     

美国校园中的国际教育周

It is International Education Week in the United States,a time to think about and celebrate international education and exchange.The special week is a project of the State Department and the Department of Education. Officials of these agencies say Americans need to leam more about the world outside     

Freedom: Perquisite of Emerson’s Individualism

Emerson established a systematic philosophy of individualism at his early stage. The basic three elements of individualism described in Emerson’s works are: freedom, self-identity and independence to others. Freedom, including the freedom to think and act, is the perquisite of the realization of individualism.     

A New Pattern to Research the Learning:From Phenomenography and Constructivism Perspective——The Case of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

This essay is trying to explore how the arts students experience the teaching and learning context in the English class of the col lege from the phenomenography perspective.The qualitative research methodology of phenomenography has traditionally required a man ual sorting and analysis of interview data.To study the teaching and learning context,the qualitative research method will be applied,and the data collection will base on the face-to-face interview.There are 8 sophomores were interviewed after they had one year study in col lege.The research findings reveal that most student in interview gradually get used to college English class,but never think about changing their learning approach even they study one year in a totally different teaching and learning environment.     

A New World to Discover——Grimm's Fairy Tales

Nowadays, the fairy tales have been on hot discussion. Some say that the very original Grimm’s fairy tales is capricious that we may be more cautious whether it’s suitable for children. With the rethinking of fairy tales, many other scholars argue that the fairy tales can be valuable with its hidden German customs in the original version and the current versions are acceptable to children.The hot discussion raises our thinking. This new discussing wave may indicate something at a degree that the Grimm’s Fairy Tales is worthy going deeper to study. We think that the Grimm’s ferry tales is valuable for its pure essence and the German culture it hides that even adults should read it. Children can read the current version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales with their innocence,getting the basic judging system of good and bad. The core question is that Adults also should pick it up. That’s because usually people will find that all the experiences and reasons can be dated back to the simple truths in fairy tales. Meantime, the Grimm’s Fairy Tales reflects lots of unthinkable customs and culture. The only thing we need to do is try to find new aspects and directions to explore the classic. With the spiritual and academic help, shouldn’t the Grimm’s fairy tales be necessary for both children and adults to read?     

第二届全国创新英语作文大赛初赛试题

Topic: What do you think are the symbols of success in today's China?Directions: The answers of what success means vary from person to person and change time to time. What do you think are the symbols of success in today's China? Please write a composition in no less than 600 words with your creativity. Writing of any style is welcome.     

Ear

The ear is the organ of hearing. A piece of light music is easy on the ear. We are usuallyall ears for important news. The Chinese like to say that there are ears behind the wall when they think someone isoverhearing.To express this idea.English people use either of the two proverbs:Walls have earsand Pitchers have ears. They also think that little pitchers have big ears. Nice boys and girls     

An analysis of The Last Emperor from the perspective of Post-colonialism

The Italian film The Last Emperor has strong color of post-colonialism,therefore,my paper will analyze the film from the perspective of post-colonialism.The two important terms in post-colonialism theory closely related to the film are "Orientalism",and "the other".My paper focus on analyzing the China’s image in European films from the angles of "Oriental ism" and "the other".My paper reveals that the China’s image in European films can’t break away from Orientalism,and the western world describe the oriental world according to its own imagination and think itself as a savior to the oriental world.Therefore,what we Chinese should do is being initiative to describe ourselves to shape a new image of real China.     

THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 2100

How will the world be like in the year 2100? Scientists think that it will be a world full of scientific wonders.The cars will have no wheels and they will not have to use petrol. They will use sunlight and even laser. The aeroplane will travel at the speed     

Teaching design of cultivating nursing students＇ creative thinking

Chinese nursing education levels have developed fast over the past few years. Many nursing educators are devoted to the research of nursing teaching. How to cultivate nursing students＇ creative thinking is one of the principle researches and has received increasing attention. In the course of nursing teaching, we renewed the teaching design based on the empirical education from nursing basics as follows. The teaching contents are enlarged to make students establish a sense of nursing development and dynamic study. The traditional teacher-centered teaching methods have been replaced by diversified students-centered methods from knowledge to activities. Evaluation of learning effect is developed to be a versatile comprehensive evaluation including students＇ Self-evaluation in accord with the multimedia teaching, group-evaluation in theoretical and discussion classes, and teachers＇ all-around evaluation. The new teaching design have embodied students＇ principal role and enhanced their abilities of creative thinking.     

威尼斯

What images come to mind when you think of a trip to Venice?No doubt you imagine yourself taking a romantic gondola1 ride along narrow cunuls and under delicate bridges.Perhaps you picture the beautiful old buildings and famous works of art that have made the city one of Europe's leading tourist spots.Venice ws built on more than 100 islands and has about 150 canals.The best-known of these,the Grand Canal2,functions as lhe"main street" in the part of the city most popular with visitors.The canal winds through each of the six districts that     

Pondering over Some Chinese And Western Poems about Old Age

Through a comparative appreciation of Chinese and Western poems about old age,the present article tends to present a general convey of the western and eastern poets' attitudes and feelings towards old age,which is an aspect of human culture.The main themes are almost the same:reminiscence(sweet or bitter) ,solitude,contentment,detachment,sorrow and sentiment.But the Western are more optimistic and admire youth,regard old age as a natural stage of life.The Chinese,more conservative and perfectionist,show much more respect to the old,and think more about the past unfulfilled.     

Universities——Drivers for regional innovation culture and competitiveness

The actual infrastructure of the information society sustains the globalization trend and increases the importance of the information and knowledge. The development of the knowledge society is the direct consequence of the mix of economic, social and cultural processes, which involve the knowledge creation and its equitable distribution, access and sharing. Universities, as poles of knowledge, creativity and innovation, play a key part in the regional development and the global competitiveness. The universities are active promoters of the innovation culture at the regional and international level, by increasing the synergy among education, research and innovation. The article focuses on the role of the academic area in the development of the learning and creative society at the regional level, contributing to the design of new knowledge and technology embedded products, services and organizational processes, which represent the premises of the global competitiveness. The most important challenge the academic environment faces in the new economy is to bridge the gap between the political decision, the governance and the labour market, offering innovative solutions and developing the intellectual capital to address the various issues of the knowledge economy. The article highlights the role of the universities as regional development drivers, by analyzing the economic performance of the Bucharest-llfov region and the direct influence of the trinomial equation： education-research-innovation.     

Motorbike and I

My friends and I always find an excuse to ride a motorbike. I personally think it is one of the funniest things to do in Guilin.The first time I did it I had to admit I was a little bit nervous. I had never been on a motorbike before and I always thought there was a big possibility of failing off the bike, for the road was too bumpy.     

The Tragic Beauty of Unicorn--New Interpretation to the Symbolic Meaning of Unicorn in The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’s first successful play. He uses several symbols in this play and enforces the tragic effect of the characters. Most people think that the unicorn represents Laura herself, especially her peculiarity, but to my understanding, it’s more like Jim O’Connor, rare and special yet tragic. My essay provides a new interpretation to the symbolic meaning of the unicorn, highlighting the tragic and fragile feature of it.     

Copyright Highway—Photocopying as Fair Use —Williams& Wilkins Co. v. United States

Fair use doctrine is easily controversial and difficult to judge,and owning to the coming of the new age,fair use doctrine becomes more troublesome.This paper will hold the balance between the right of reproduction of library and the publisher interests by approaching a case under these four elements:the requirement for the Purpose and character of the use;The nature of the copyrighted work;The amount and substantiality of the works used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;The effect of the use upon the potential market for and value of the copyrighted work.     

游戏受到好莱坞的礼遇 游戏如何成为好莱坞的主要产业

Audiences thrilled to the climactic1 battle scenein The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2, whereAragorn, Legolas, and their allies slaughter the eviOrcs. Gamers get the same thrill from playing the TwoTowers video game, and that's no coincidence.These days Hollywood filmmakers work closelywith game developers to develop compelling videogames that complement3 their movies."Film games are actually getting pretty good. think it's the first sign of the apocalypse4," says CliffBleszinski, le…     

完形填空专练（2）

The Inspector of Schools arrived yesterday morning, and he spent the whole day examining the classes. The headmaster had told us a few days 1 that he was coming. I think the headmaster was very 2 about it, for every day, he came to all the classes, 3 the teacher over and over again what they must do and examined the boy himself to see 4 they were ready for the Inspector. He told us in our class that we were all fools and would be sure to 5 him lose face before the Inspector.     

The Useful Moon

Two kids are talking about the sun and them oon.One asks,“Whichone do you think is more useful?”The other answers,“The moon,of course.The moon always comesout in the evenings and gives light to us. While the sun always stays inthe sky in the day when it is already bright enough.”The Useful Moon!河北@邢新…     

Automatic Reading

Reading is the key to school success and,like any skill,it takes practice.A child learns to walk by practising until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other.The great athlete practises until he can play quickly,accurately and without thinking.Ed- ucators call it automaticity.