初入大学第一年

我们这些在大学里摸爬滚打了几年的人都不会忘记作为大学新生的那一年.有些人可能想要忘记,但对大多数人来说,这是一段充满激情、些许渴望和新奇发现的时光.     

大学英语课堂沉默现象解析

大学英语课堂沉默是一个较普遍的现象,这既影响了英语教师教学活动,也阻碍了大学生英语综合能力的进一步提高。该文分别从学生和教师的角度分析了造成沉默的原因,并就此提出相应的对策。     

Predictors of First-Year Retention in a Community College

Retention is a complex issue of great importance to community colleges. Several retention models have been developed to help explain this phenomenon. However, these models typically have used four-year college and university environments to build their foundations. Several researchers have attempted to identify predictor variables using statistical analysis. This study attempts to replicate some of these previous studies and build on them by including additional variables and cross-sectional techniques to study the potential of shifting trends.     

大学英语课堂上的人文教育

针对目前很多人忽视大学英语课堂上的人文教育的现状,重申了大学英语课堂上开展人文教育的必要性和重要性,并详细地提出了如何把大学英语课堂和人文教育有机结合的具体思路。     

大学英语课堂学生沉默现象的实证研究

大学英语课堂沉默现象是一个普遍问题。本研究以问卷调查、访谈和课堂观察等方式,从传统文化影响、学生性别和个性差异以及教师的教学方式等方面入手,分析产生这种现象的原因,并提出打破课堂沉默的教学策略,以提高大学英语课堂教学质量。     

Imaginative Engagement with Religious Diversity in Public School Classrooms

Helping students learn how to engage thoughtfully with religious diversity is a vital component of democratic citizenship. This article argues for the importance of such a curriculum and considers the challenges and potential inherent in fostering “imaginative engagement” with religion in public school classrooms. It first explores conceptual issues such as our capacity for empathic understanding and whether it is appropriate to use students as sources of “insider understanding” of religious perspectives. It then evaluates three common curricular choices for stirring the ethical imagination in students: role plays, field experiences, and the use of art and literature.     

Engaging Quiet Students in the College Classroom

Quiet students are sometimes misunderstood in the college classroom. Students may be quiet for reasons related to personality traits, learned behaviors, or situational factors, but regardless, their silences may be misinterpreted by their instructors as a lack of engagement in their courses. In fact, quiet students are often very engaged in the learning process but may need space to express their interest in ways that are suited to their quiet tendencies. This article describes how quiet students are perceived in the classroom, reviews the reasons why quiet students often serve as a source of uncertainty for college instructors, and explains a number of strategies that instructors can use to meet the learning needs of quiet students.     

Designing Classrooms for Diversity: Fostering Social Inclusion

Responding to the growing diversity of students within North American schools today, educators have recognized the value of social inclusion as an important goal, supporting both social-emotional and academic success for all students. This special issue explores how teachers play a significant role in promoting inclusive classes by understanding the social dynamics that operate in educational contexts. Addressing a number of different forms that diversity can take (gender, ethnicity, physical and/or mental exceptionalities), these articles rightfully focus attention on group processes that promote inclusion versus exclusion and their impact, and underscore the need for teacher training in such efforts. Supporting and extending this discussion, we present an overview of recent efforts to promote “universal design for learning” in education, which focuses on academic as well as social inclusion, in hopes that educators consider even broader approaches to celebrating diversity and teaching students to relate to others with acceptance and respect.     

大学英语口语课堂上的情感集中型活动探究

在英语口语教学与语言训练当中,非语言因素对于英语口语的学习与能力提高往往起到重要作用,其中情感因素与移情作用对相关口语教学活动的积极影响不可忽视,应进行鼓励、提倡和引导,以增强学生的学习动机.组织情感集中型口语活动对于提高英语口语课的质量具有重要的意义.     

Conducting Discussions on Controversial Issues in College Classrooms

Student identity, their dichotomous logical framework, and teachers’beliefs constitute the major obstacles in conduct-ing classroom discussion on controversial issues. This essay analyzes these obstacl...     

Conducting Discussions on Controversial Issues in College Classrooms

Student identity,their dichotomous logical framework,and teachers’ beliefs constitute the major obstacles in conducting classroom discussion on controversial issues. This essay analyzes these obstacles and provides suggestions for teachers in tackling the problems,so that classroom discussions on controversial issues may exert beneficial outcomes.     

大学英语课堂同伴支架的作用

继认知发展理论之后,由维果茨基、伍德等人提出了"最近发展区"和支架理论。以此为理论框架,以英语专业学生为研究对象,探究英语课堂上小组互动中的同伴之间的支架作用。研究结果表明,同伴支架具有提供表达、提供观点、纠错、提高参与度、简化任务等作用,同伴之间的支架可以促进学生的二语习得。     

Demotivation in China' s College English Language Classrooms

Demotivation in second or foreign language learning is the dark side of motivation.It concerns specific external forces that negatively affect the language learners motivational basis to learn the language(Dornyei,2001).Much research has been carried out in studying motivation both in general field and L2(second language)field.In contrast,little research has been conducted on demotivation among language learners.This study inquires into which demotivational factor affected college students negatively most; and how did demotivation affect them and their English learning.     

大学英语教学课堂提问研究

在大学英语课堂教学中,提问扮演着十分重要的角色,它在一定程度上决定了教学的质量和效果。但大学英语课堂提问中,在提问的主体、问题的类型、等待时间以及提问的对象等方面还存在一些问题。文章对这些问题进行了分析并提出了相应的策略。     

大学英语课堂应重视价值引导

当前大学英语教师对是否应该在大学英语课堂进行价值引导没有统一的认识,但是大学英语课堂丰富的人文性使得价值引导成为一个无法回避的话题。罗杰斯的教育目的观和学习观对大学英语课堂价值引导提供了有益的启示：教育要培养“完整的人”,因此大学英语课堂不仅要注重语言技能和文化技能的培养, 也要加强价值引导和素质教育; 为了使英语学习成为“有意义的学习”,价值引导和人文关怀对于大学英语课堂也成为不可或缺的一部分。     

大学英语课堂教师话语的调查与分析

大学英语课堂教师话语不仅是组织课堂和操纵教学的工具,也是课堂语言学习的内容和语言应用的范例。鉴于此,大学英语课堂教师话语会影响甚至决定课堂教学的成败。该研究采用自然调查法,通过课堂观察、录音和问卷调查,就五位大学英语教师课堂话语的样本从教师话语的数量、母语的使用量、教师提问、交互调整的方式及教师对学生的反馈5个方面进行剖析,从而全面、详细地描述和分析大学英语课堂教师话语的特点,以期发现问题,对提升大学英语课堂教师话语的质与量提出建议。     

大学英语教学中课堂提问的功能和技巧

提问是一种常见的课堂技巧,是大学英语教学中的一个重要环节。课堂中教师的提问是影响学生语言习得的一个重要因素。不仅可以启发学生独立思考的能力,强化学生英语语言的表达能力,而且还能促进学生英语思维能力的发展。在大学英语教学中,教师对于课堂提问技巧的掌握以及课堂提问功能的运用更是至关重要。     

大学课堂动态生成价值论

动态生成的大学课堂既关注课前的预设又重视教学现场的即时运作,既重视教师的教又关注学生的学,既重视教学过程又关注学生在课堂上的表现,且更强调课堂的现实生成和直接生成.动态生成的大学课堂有利于落实学生的主体地位,有利于促进学生的全面发展,有利于师生创造力的形成和发挥,有利于促进教师的内省和自律.     

Border Crossings: Engaging Students in Diversity Work and Intergroup Relations

As an innovative model for diversity education, Dickinson College designed the Crossing Borders program to encourage culturally diverse students to live, work, and study together in multiple contexts both within the United States and abroad. Envisioning a series of crossings, the program brings together up to 20 students from Dickinson College, a predominantly White Institution, and Xavier University, Dillard College, and Spelman College, three Historically Black Colleges/Universities, to spend 4 weeks studying together in Cameroon. West Africa. Students then study at Dickinson for one semester and at one of the Historically Black Colleges/Universities for one semester.

Using Open-Source Videos to Flip a First-Year College Physics Class

Journal of Science Education and Technology - Flipped classrooms provide students the opportunity to collaboratively solve challenging problems in class with help and scaffolding available from...