‘I wonder if they are going up or down’: children's co-constructive talk across the primary years

This article reports a research project, where two pairs of children were recorded in discussion, first in Year One and then five years later in Year Six. A unique opportunity meant that the children engaged in the same task at the beginning and end of their Primary School education. The research analyses the talk on three levels, considering the language that they use, the way that they manage their talk together, and the broader themes that they bring to their discussion. The findings suggest that their language changes subtly over time, with their earlier discussions more imaginative and fluid.     

英语专业精读课堂探索性教学的研究与应用

通过精读课堂教师话语的现场录音,及其转写与分析,总结其规律性特征,并结合话语分析及Sinclair和Coulthard模式,对课堂申的交际性重新释义,以期能为下一步探索性教学提供更多的数据支持。     

校本教研中需要注意的几个问题

以校为本的教学研究包含三层含义：“以校为本”,“以教师为本”,“以教学为本”。教师个人的自我反思、教师集体的同伴互助、专业研究人员的专业支持是开展校本教研的三种基本力量。不断学习是教师自我反思的基本前提;宽松和谐的教师文化是教师集体同伴互助的基础;建立平等、对等的对话体系是专业引领的保证。     

英语专业教师话语性别差异探究

男性和女性在交际方式上存在着性别话语,不同的性别话语会形成迥然不同的教学风格。本文从话语量、提问方式、反馈方式、体态语和课堂导入五方面来探讨不同性别的英语专业教师的话语差异以及由此而产生的对学生语言学习的影响。     

教师授课语言对学生英语语法学习的影响

教师话语是学生语言输入的主要来源之一。教师教授学生英语时,选用哪种语言讲解语法会对学生英语语法学习产生影响。本文以汉族、民考汉和民考民教师为例,讨论了教师语种使用差异对民考民大学生英语语法学习的影响。     

英语课堂教师话语真实性研究：内涵、表征与应用

英语课堂教师话语既具有组织教学的功能,也是学生语言输入的一个重要来源。无论是作为组织教学活动的语言,还是作为语言输入,教师话语的真实性都不可或缺。英语教师课堂话语真实性是指情景、语言和内容的真实性;课堂话语真实性具有即时性、连贯性、目的性、可理解性等特点,且具有多种促学功能;课堂话语真实性的表现形式有口语化、协商性、反馈性和转换性等方面;在课堂教学中,教师应创设真实情景、促进语言输出,明确教学目的、力求话语真实,提高语言能力、确保内容真实。     

Conceptual and Action Frameworks for Peace

An overview is provided on conceptual and action frameworks for peace, including contributions from different areas of psychology and several multidisciplinary perspectives. Approaches lacking in previous efforts, and some of the reasons for the limited success of peace work are identified. Two case examples are given to illustrate possibilities that have transformative potential, but are less often pursued by counseling professionals. Action research in communal dialogue and advocacy, and psychoeducation and mentoring in psychospiritual development are emphasized in promoting peaceful communities. Implications for our roles and functions as well as future theory, research and training are discussed.     

试论“基于对话”的研究共同体

教师参与教育行动研究,并与专业研究者合作构建“基于对话”的研究共同体,是教师逐步形成研究意识、发展和提高实践研究能力的可靠路径。小组研讨制度是研究共同体的运作方式,“基于问题的探索过程”和“开放性的经验分享”是共同体的本质特征,多向互动、智慧共享的“对话”是共同体的运作机制。     

Problem‐based learning and action research in postgraduate teaching: the interdisciplinary core

Rapid changes in the world due to the emergence of an information society, scientific and technological developments, and a growing capitalist global economy have made intercultural and inter-ethnic contacts a fairly ordinary phenomenon. However, paradoxically, cultural diversity has had to cope with powerful homogenising instruments of a globalised planet; consequently, cultural issues cannot be considered apart from power relations. In education, a recent phenomenon – the teacher research movement – has tried to fight against conservative and dominant forms of teaching and teacher education. In this article, it is argued that teacher research, as an international movement, has the potential to become a counter-hegemonic strategy to construct critical teacher education approaches in a globalised world.     

Action research remodelled in a competitive,profit-oriented sector: teachers’ and managers’ perspectives

ABSTRACT

Action research has enjoyed phenomenal growth in the field of education as a catalyst for teacher professional learning with a view to school improvement, but it is commonly remodelled across various local settings. Adopting a Schatzkian perspective, this study investigates the experiences of a range of teachers engaging in an action research program in a competitive, profit-oriented setting – the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) sector in Australia – to explore how action research has been prefigured and remodelled in this unique context. A qualitative case study approach was adopted and a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers and managers of ELICOS centres. Results of this study indicate that the way action research is understood and practised by teachers and managers in the ELICOS sector has been shaped by the competitive, profit-oriented context in which they function, with an emphasis on ‘winning’ and gaining status through action research.     

Books only got us so far: the need for multi‐genre inquiry

This study examines the instructional steps I took, based on gaps between what was happening in a graduate literacy class I taught and what I had intended to happen. This study describes the ways that I re‐imagined the class and what came about when I created a pedagogical approach that featured multi‐genre inquiry. I define inter‐discursivity as a signal of learning (i.e. when traces of language from one genre spill over into the language of other genres), and I searched for examples of this overlapping language in data. In doing so, I found that the multi‐genre approach led to moments of inter‐discursivity as teachers extended their understandings by appropriating language from one genre into another.     

行动学习法:促进教师反思的有效方法

行动学习法为教师提供了团队学习的机会,小组成员间的建设性争议能促进教师反思的有效进行.教师的反思分为行动前的反思、行动中的反思和行动后的反思(对行动的反思)三类.行动学习法通过对行动前的反思与行动后的反思的推动,促进教师形成教育智慧,推动行动中反思的进行.在行动学习小组中,对话促进了反思,团队反思促进了个人反思.