英语语言的跨文化特征对外语素养提升效果的研究与探索

随着全球一体化深入,高职阶段的外语教学也加快了"全球化"的脚步并进行了多方位多角度的英美文化的渗透。本文意在通过对跨文化交际能力培养的必要性与英语语言的跨文化交际特征对全面提升学生英语素养的重要性分析,探讨如何实现培养学生英语跨文化交际能力与全面提升学生英语文化素养的有机结合。     

维吾尔族受众语言习得与媒介素养研究

以教育部课题调研数据为基础,旨在研究特定语言习得背景下新疆维吾尔族受众的媒介素养,分析其特点并在此基础上结合维吾尔语主流媒体资源优势对其发展提出了建议。     

当代西方国家第二语言读写能力评价改革述评

第二语言读写能力的高低在一定程度上反映了第二语言教学的成效。文章论述了当代西方发达国家对学生第二语言读写能力评价的改革形式和共同特点,以期对我国的外语（第二语言）读写能力评价改革提供参考。     

Contributions of the Home Literacy Environment and Underlying Language Skills to Preschool Invented Writing

This study aimed to enhance our knowledge of the constituent variables affecting invented writing skills in 5-year-olds by investigating the concurrent relationships among home literacy, underlying language skills, and invented writing. The study comprised 111 Norwegian-speaking children (mean age: 5.7 years; 58 girls) and their parents. The children’s language skills were tested individually. The results showed that, on average, children achieved low scores on tests of word writing; however, the within-group variations in the children’s invented writing performances were large. The statistical modeling showed that parental education was significantly related to the home literacy environment, which was, in turn, directly related to both vocabulary and phonological awareness and indirectly related to invented writing skills. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

高校外语教师评价素养调查

对学生的学业表现做出评价是教师工作的重要组成部分,也是教师学科教学知识的重要内容。教师评价素养的高低关系到影响教与学的效果。本文采用定量分析方法调查了173名中国某省高校外语教师的评价素养。研究发现被调查教师评价素养整体水平不高;其评价素养对评价实践有显著的预测作用;对评价素养水平起影响作用的因素主要有与测试相关的职前学习,在职科研和参与命题经历。     

谈全面提高高职学生的语文素养——构建开放而有活力的语文课程体系

我国的基础教育课程改革正逐步推向深入,高职教育改革也在有条不紊地进行,新的教育价值观,新的人才质量观不断深入人心,从而呈现出一种包容了人的情感在内的新的语文教学观.通过分析全面提升语文教学的整体功能,全面提高高职学生的语文素养,认为构建开放而有活力的语文课程体系,是高职教师必须认真研究的重要课题.     

正确实施语文综合性学习是提高学生语文素养的有效途径

文章以课题的形式对综合性学习的教学策略进行实验研究,重点从教学过程及方法、教师的指导作用、教学评价等方面进行理论和实践的探索,总结了实验学校教师的案例经验,描述了实验学校综合性学习课发生的实质性变化。学生在这一学习过程中,对语文课程的重新认识以及在一定程度上语文综合素养的提高。     

Effectiveness of Large-Scale,State-Sponsored Language and Literacy Professional Development on Early Childhood Educator Outcomes

The current study investigated the effectiveness of large-scale, state-sponsored language and literacy professional development (PD) intended to improve early childhood educators' knowledge, beliefs, and practices. PD was offered in a real-world context and delivered at-scale across the state, implemented by an independent contractor. Educators (n = 535) were randomly assigned to participate in one of three types of PD: 30 hrs of language and literacy PD presented in a workshop format, 30 hrs of language and literacy PD plus monthly coaching, or PD on alternative topics (comparison). Baseline and outcome measures were collected by an independent research team to determine PD effectiveness. Growth curve analyses showed little change in educator outcomes over an 18-month period, with no differences among conditions or evidence of moderation by educator or classroom characteristics. Explanations for lack of PD impacts and the importance of evaluating educational investments are discussed.     

基于核心素养的语文研修课程实践

学生发展核心素养指导下的语文课程改革已走进全新的时代。为充分认识、理解语文核心素养,教师应在教学中努力实践,开发顺应时代发展、适合学生特点的语文研修课程和活动,不断发挥语文学科的育人优势,落实立德树人根本任务。人大附中初中语文组从三个方面开发语文研修课程,积累了一些有益经验:一是增设校本研修,让传统文化活起来;二是融合北京地方特色,开发语文课程资源;三是带领学生走近书香世界,演绎戏剧人生。     

The Web and Early Literacy

Abstract

The Web as an appropriate vehicle for educating young children in formal and informal school settings is the subject of widespread, international debate (Anderson, 2000; Attewell, Suazo-Gar-cia, & Battle, 2003; Davis & Shade, 1994; Dolowy, 2000; Filipenko & Rolfsen, 1999; Pendleton, 2001; Vail, 2001; Wardle, 1999). Regardless of these debates, however, the Web's use in early education continues to grow. This article describes current Web usage in early education, particularly literacy education, and suggests possibilities for the future.     

高职院校行政教辅人员语言文字素养之刍议

主要探讨了高职院校行政教辅人员应具备的基本职业素养之一,即包括了口语和书面表达能力在内的语言文字素养,并分析了培养和提高这种素养的方法,以期引起高职院校行政教辅人员对它的重视。     

Poverty alleviation and integrated service delivery: Literacy,early child development and health

This paper argues that many internationally financed literacy programs do not sufficiently take into consideration important daily life issues of the learners, including nutritional deficiencies that may hinder learning, or of children–parent–society interactions that may improve learning. As a result, many programs have become synonymous with increased supply of a low-quality education. Often, these programs address almost exclusively Education for All (EFA) international policy targets, without sufficiently addressing other poverty alleviation targets, as defined by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper further contends that approaches that would generate the greatest effects within an EFA-perspective may not be the best way to alleviate poverty within a MDGs-perspective. Based on a case study of a women's literacy program in Senegal, this paper proposes to look at needs within an MDG perspective, and to use multi-pronged and integrated approaches to intervene in sectors where the poverty alleviation impact is the greatest.     

The Implications of the 'New Literacy Studies' for Literacy Education

This paper deals with the following questions:

• 1 The ‘problem’: what is the ‘Literacy Debate’ and why do such apparently arcane accounts of language and literacy have such a high profile in popular media?
• 2 What are the New Literacy Studies (NLS) and what are the new understandings of language and of literacy on which NLS are based?
• 3 . What are the implications for literacy education?

     

Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.     

The Literacy Component of Mathematical and Scientific Literacy

This opening article of the Special Issue makes an argument for parallel definitions of scientific literacy and mathematical literacy that have shared features: importance of general cognitive and metacognitive abilities and reasoning/thinking and discipline-specific language, habits-of-mind/emotional dispositions, and information communication technology strategies to prepare people for adult life and democratic citizenship. These frameworks provide potential insights into research and pedagogy. Furthermore, they provide guidelines for second-generation standards, curriculum development and assessment so as not to overlook or underemphasize the fundamental literacy component of mathematical and scientific literacy for all students, which can result in fuller participation in the public debate about science, mathematics, technology, society, and environment issues.     

海南省高校外语教师信息素养的调查与研究

外语教师信息素养在信息时代大学英语教学中起着非常的重要作用。以提升外语教师信息素养为研究视角,采用调查问卷方式调查海南省三所高校外语教师,问题主要集中于信息知识、信息意识、信息技能和信息伦理。研究结果显示,海南高校大多数外语教师能够认识到信息素养对教师专业发展的重要性,对信息技术提高教学效果认可度较高,但对信息技术促进科研作用总体态度不一。另外,在掌握和应用信息技术上,不同年龄段教师也存在差异。     

高职高专院校学前教育专业学生语言素养的培养

高职高专院校学前教育专业学生在语言素养方面存在自我认识模糊和心理素质薄弱等问题。培养学生语言素养的策略包括重视口语基本训练、注重词汇的规范使用、讲究学法灵活多样和培养学生的形象感受四个方面。     

Books and Good Stuff: A Strategy for Building School to Home Literacy Connections

Engaging young children in literacy activities at home is one way for families to augment and enrich the home literacy setting and to participate in their child’s education at an early age (St. Pierre et al. in Dev Psychol 41(6): 953–970, 2005). Burgess et al. (Read Res Quart 4(4): 408–426, 2002) suggested that the resources families have at their disposal, the quality of literacy role models provided by parents, and the types of literacy and language activities in which parents and children engage, are all related to young children’s developing literacy and language abilities. Other studies demonstrated that even modest literacy-promoting interventions can significantly enhance a young child’s early literacy environment by increasing the frequency of parent–child book-sharing activities (Weitzman et al. in Pediatrics 113(5):1248–1253, 2004). Dever (J Early Educ Fam Rev 8(4):17–28, 2001) and Dever and Burtis (Early Child Dev Care 172(4):359–370, 2002) emphasize the use of family literacy bags for early childhood development. Developing and sharing take-home literacy bags is an exciting literacy-promoting activity that may be shared with children and families to provide support for emergent literacy. This article explores the development of the BAGS (Books and Good Stuff) take-home literacy kits and provides suggestions for content, construction, implementation, and evaluation. Sixteen current books are reviewed and recommended by theme.     

Building a Literacy Community: The Role of Literacy and Social Practice in Early Childhood Programs

This article reports findings from two qualitatively based studies, one conducted at an urban preschool in Northern California and the other at a rural Head Start Center in the Midwest. By presenting detailed data from the two preschool sites, the article describes several ways to strengthen existing literacy practices for children, families, and teachers in both urban and rural early childhood settings. The studies focus on such critical aspects of child and family literacy development as ownership and inclusion, raising important issues for practice and policy in early childhood literacy and language education.