关于专科英语教学的思考

对高等专科阶段英语精读教学的对象、教材及外语教学理论与方法进行了分析和研究，认为应该采用折中的方法，既将各种不同教学法综合运用，同时侧重学生有意识的学习和交际活动。     

英语专业精读课堂教师话语对提高学生语言能力的影响——基于郑州某高校的实证研究

以郑州市某高校60名英语专业学生为研究对象,旨在验证英语专业精读课堂教师话语的质量对提高学生语言能力的影响。通过教育实验法、观察研究法、问卷调查法与成绩测试法研究发现：英语专业精读教学中运用规范教师话语的英语课堂能提高英语专业学生英语水平与语言能力。教师在英语专业精读课堂上的话语应该更规范,更灵活多样,更具交互性和艺术性。     

转变教学模式是大学英语精读教学改革的关键

精读长期以来在我国大学英语课堂教学中占有重要地位。传统的以语言知识讲授为核心的大学英语精读教学模式在一定程度上导致了英语教学的“费时低效”。转变这种传统模式,确立学生课外自主学习,课内以语言应用能力（听、说、读、写、译）训练为核心的新的大学英语精读教学模式,是大学英语精读教学改革的关键。     

语境因素对外语课堂教学多模态选择运用的影响

语境概念是语用学研究的基础。语境因素对多模态选择的作用是不言而喻的。本文探讨在外语教学课堂中多模态选择的语境因素影响。研究发现,教师及学生的影响决定多模态的选择,两者又与语言因素结合起来,共同影响模态选择。本文从语境因素的角度分析多模态的选择使用问题,以期为外语教师课堂多模态的使用和研究提供一些启示和帮助。     

拓宽知识输入渠道,促进内隐知识外化

精读课的目的是培养学生对英语的认知能力,同时提高学生的综合素质。教师在任课过程中要力争拓宽知识输入渠道,通过外显知识激发内隐知识,提高语言输出能力。     

学分制下的基础日语精读教学探索

学分制下的基础日语精读教学中,教师要注意精读的"精"即语法、句型、单词的精讲和运用上的精练;教学方法的灵活多样,综合各家之经典;以及教学中应该注意语言文化,重视文化知识背景教育,增强学生文化意识,提高其跨文化交际能力。     

语境理论指导下的现代大学英语教学模式探索

现代大学英语精读课程非常重要。然而,多年来,精读教学的效果与教师和学生的付出不成正比。作者通过实验,发现语境理论指导下的大学英语精读教学模式对于改善目前精读教学的现状很有帮助该模式即:用情景语境设置导入问题,指导洞江教学和用五个WH(who,when,where,whet,why)来梳理文章主旨。     

英语精读课的构成因素与教学模式

本文简要地回顾了英语精读课要在我国的历史,指出英语精读课要在大学阶段的英语学习中起到重要作用,必须从综合效率的角度进行深入分析和实施。通过分析英语精读课程中学生、教材及教师三个因素,指出当今英语精读课已经超出了以教材为框架的教学形式,而成为以学生可接受为前提的综合能力训练课程,其教学活动均要以学生可接受为前提,以课文文本的理解为基础而展开读说听写译的训练。在整个精读课教学活动中,教师与学生均应以真实语境交流氛围中的参与者出现,逐渐把英语作为学习的对象隐现为进行交际的工具。     

浅谈语境的特征和应用

休本文结合国内外知名学者关于语用学中语境的论述,分析了语境特征,比较详细地讨论了何兆熊先生提出的语言知识和语言外知识这一语境概念。语境的价值主要在于会话含义中,一个话语在不同的语境中能体现说话人的言外之意、弦外之音。     

关于培养学生交际能力的探讨

针对当前大学英语精读教学中存在的问题,提出了教师应如何组织课堂活动,以促进学生的语言习得并且取得预期的教学效果的一些培养学生交际能力的实用方法.同时,还就精读教学中应注意的问题进行了探讨.     

Redesigning academic essays to promote teacher reflection on selected issues of learning and teaching related to the current educational reform in Hong Kong

Teachers in Hong Kong have faced constant demand for practice renewal due to successive waves of educational reforms in the past decade. This paper describes the design of an assignment structure that promotes teacher reflection on important issues related to a major education reform in Hong Kong. This particular assignment structure includes three components – self-reflection, understanding alternative perspectives and situated analysis. Teachers are expected to complete these components in a sequence. The design addresses teachers’ teaching experiences, engages them in learning alternative perspectives, and assists them to juxtapose self-reflection and alternative perspectives in analysing commonly encountered teaching situations. An evaluation of teachers’ levels of reflection in these assignments showed that both high- and low-scored teachers improved their reflection. Based on the findings of an interview study, this paper reported a grounded model explaining how this innovative assignment structure promotes reflection. The model situated the reflective assignments within the local teaching context in Hong Kong and highlighted the importance of different forms of assistance and guidance in facilitating teachers’ reflective engagement in completing these cognitively demanding assignments.     

Analysing teachers’ translation of sustainability using a PCK framework

In order to teach about sustainability, teachers need to be able to translate their personal understanding of this concept into their pedagogy in ways that make it accessible to their learners. This translation process is known as pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This study investigated the way that two teachers translated their understanding of sustainability into their pedagogy and the effects of this translation on children’s learning (n?=?18). Two interpretive case studies were constructed. Data were generated using interviews and documents. Two frameworks were used to analyse the data. One was a definition of sustainability and the other a model of PCK expressed as pedagogical context knowledge (PCxK) that consisted of four components. The findings showed that the translation of sustainability was a complex interaction of three of the PCxK components with some use of the fourth. Some children developed an understanding of sustainability but only two were able to link their understanding with the scientific concepts taught resulting in ‘diffused learning’. Also, these findings suggest that while the PCxK model used to analyse the translation process had a degree of precision and heuristic power, further refinement is needed in order for this model to explicate teachers’ PCK.     

职教教师个体知识的建构——基于实践性知识的视角

基于实践性知识在职教教师个体知识结构中的价值,提出实践性知识既是职教教师个体知识的核心构成,也是最能体现其专业特质的重要标志,并从职业教育发展的历史脉络,揭示和阐述了职教教师个体知识建构的机制与知识表现形态,同时呈现了实践性知识在个体知识结构中由自在走向自为的历史演进过程,进一步指出知识管理有助于促进职教教师个体实践性知识的有效建构和形成,进而实现其专业化自主成长.     

Multilayered knowledge: understanding the structure and enactment of teacher educators’ specialized knowledge base

In order to corroborate and grow teacher educator knowledge (TEK) scholarship, this paper describes an in-depth-focused exploration of a group of teacher educators providing professional development. Our grounded data analysis allowed us to define different major elements, sub-elements, and components that comprise TEK, as well as make explicit how the use of this knowledge—in the context of teaching professional development—draws upon multiple components at any given moment. These findings hold implications for TEK scholarship and practice. Specific to scholarly efforts, while current models for TEK are useful for explicating common understandings amongst the research community, the most functional representations should be fluid and dynamic, in part by balancing both breadth and depth in their scope. Specific to the development of teacher educators, teacher educator preparation should recognize, emphasize, and develop future teacher educators’ layered understandings (i.e. knowledge of students and teachers) and robust knowledge of contexts.     

Exploring the boundary between school science and everyday knowledge in primary school pedagogic practices

This paper explores the different ways that primary school teachers in Uganda navigate the boundary between school science and everyday knowledge in the context of a centrally mandated curriculum innovation. The paper is based on a study of the pedagogic practices of 16 teachers in eight Ugandan primary schools that were selected on the basis of having a track record of either high or low academic achievement in the public primary school‐leaving examination. The official primary school curriculum in Uganda prescribes that science be taught in an integrated form, including integration between science subject knowledge and everyday knowledge. The strategies that teachers in the study adopted in relating science to everyday knowledge was a key feature that differentiated between pedagogic practices in the high‐performing and low‐performing schools. In high‐performing schools, teachers recruited everyday knowledge as a resource for learning science as a specialised discourse; whereas in the low‐performing schools, acquiring everyday knowledge was viewed as an end in itself. The paper, then, considers the implications of differences in teachers' pedagogic strategies for the kinds of knowledge to which learners are given access.     

维果茨基社会文化视角下外语教师语言知识的建构

本文从维果茨基的社会文化理论的视角探讨外语教师的语言知识的建构,认为外语教师的语言知识,不论是关于语言的知识、运用语言的知识,还是教学的语言知识都应被视为是从社会环境的经验中产生的。外语教师的教学的语言知识至少应该涉及关于语言的知识,对外语学习过程的理解,以及批判的语言意识等几个方面。这几个方面的知识都与教师原有的生活经历和知识基础相关。外语教师的学习和教学经验决定了其教学的语言知识基础,这就意味着教师的自传应置于外语教师发展中的重要的地位。     

The concept of coherency in teaching: forging an idea from professional literature – a case analysis and a discussion with experts

The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of the concept ‘coherency in teaching’ as part of the search for a good teacher. The research was conducted in two stages. The first stage comprised class observations and interviews with a good teacher and with five of her students. The second stage comprised interviews with expert trainers of pre‐service teachers. The paper exposes the concept of coherency in teaching gradually starting with a theoretical review, continues with a practical example, and ends with an analysis of the significance of coherency in teaching. The concept of coherency in teaching shows it is not sufficient to examine the qualities that make a teacher effective and good at teaching as separate components, but the way these components are linked to each other is also important and has the function of outlining teachers’ constant search for adjustments while retaining their ability to teach.     

Integrating Knowledge and Practice at Manor in the Development of Providers of Professional Development for Teachers

The overriding aim of MANOR – a national mathematics teacher center – in the last decade has been to provide a theoretically sound, research-based and practically feasible framework to support Professional Development (PD) for teachers of mathematics at a time of curriculum reform in Israel. This paper focuses on the preparation of, and support for, providers of PD for teachers of mathematics, offered at MANOR. The paper describes various components of MANOR (the MANOR Program, Forum, Conferences, individual support, and Resource Files) after 10 years of activity, situating MANOR in the Israeli context. The paper also elaborates the theoretical orientations on which MANOR draws, with relation to a central characteristic of MANOR, namely, the integration of knowledge and practice in the development of PD providers. Note: Based on a paper presented at the Presidential Invited Symposium on “Social Contexts and Practices for Promoting Teacher Learning: Insights from Professional Development Research Projects in Mathematics and Science in South Africa, Portugal, and Israel” at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA, USA, April 2004.     

The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly of Pedagogy in Harry Potter: An Inquiry Into the Personal Practical Knowledge of Remus Lupin,Rubeus Hagrid,and Severus Snape

On the 20th anniversary of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, we examine the narratives of pedagogical practice of three teachers at “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”. By drawing on these characters’ stories of teaching as presented in Rowling’s novels, we foreground their personal practical knowledge and the relationship of this knowledge to their curriculum-making. We do this in order to highlight the importance of narrative perspective and context in the assessment and evaluation of teachers’ pedagogical practice.