‘Computer games can get your brain working’: student experience and perceptions of digital games in the classroom

There is considerable enthusiasm in many quarters for the incorporation of digital games into the classroom, and the capacity of games to engage and challenge players, present complex representations and experiences, foster collaborative learning, and promote deep learning. But while there is increasing research documenting the progress and outcomes of game-based learning, relatively little attention is paid to student perceptions and voice. In order to effectively target game-based learning pedagogy, it is important to understand students' previous experience, if any, of the use of games in the classroom, and what they made of these. In this paper, we present findings from a survey of 270 primary and secondary school students in Year Levels 4–9 (aged 9–14) in 6 Queensland schools at the start of a 3-year Australian Research Council project researching the use of digital games in school to promote literacy and learning.     

基于核心素养的中学英语文学阅读课程实践与思考

《中国学生发展核心素养》提出"全面发展的人"的培养目标,学科教师要在课程实施中落实学生核心素养的发展。基于核心素养的中学英语文学阅读教学实践从语言学习、认知发展、社会生活三方面促进学生的发展。在语言学习目标层面,学生在准确理解故事文本基础上,通过准确拼读、流利朗读、正确复述、互动讨论、创新表演、创意写作等系列活动,提高语言理解、赏析和创意表达能力;在认知发展层面,学生在语言交流活动中培养思维的逻辑性、批判性和创新性,掌握语言知识学习策略,提升分析和解决问题能力、元认知能力;在社会生活层面,学生通过一系列阅读、思考和创作分享活动,形成正确的人生观、价值观,培养自尊、自信、自强的良好品格,学会做人、做事,提高文明素养和社会责任感。     

Promoting Reading Achievement

Abstract

This essay argues in favor of college instructors, especially in introductory classes, giving students the freedom to use Wikipedia entries in their research projects. It explores the pedagogy created by rigid prohibitions of potential sources, and argues that at stake are two chief dichotomies: one, students learning by engaging in a process vs. students producing a product, and two, students thinking individually and evaluating vs. students following rules. Within the discussion of these dichotomies is a call for instructors to emphasize evaluation of the content of research material rather than an author's credentials or other external markers.     

The teaching of literature in a Singapore secondary school: disciplinarity,curriculum coverage and the opportunity costs involved

Set against the backdrop of reinvigorating the study of literature and concerns about the adequate preparation of students for the world of work, this paper explores how a Singapore teacher presented a literary text in the classroom. Drawing on data from a large-scale representative sample of Singapore schools in instruction and assessment practices, we discuss some of the potential consequences of instructional choice-making from a disciplinary perspective. Our findings suggest, for example, that when teacher-dominated discourse and interpretations dominate, instructional flexibility and responsiveness are correspondingly limited and restricted. These courses of action, we contend, may occur contrary to teachers’ plans and expectations. The paper closes by making a call for further longitudinal research across multiple research sites into the nature of literature pedagogy that has a strong disciplinary focus.     

Reading/Writing Multilingualism: language,literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom

This article examines the relationship between the discipline of ‘English Literature’ and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that, although our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the ‘problem’ of language diversity by helping to teach language norms, literature can – and should – be made a preeminent space for students to reflect on their own experiences of language diversity, and to translate this into self‐reflexive critical tools to think about language in literature. As an example of this kind of practice in action, the article discusses the experience and outcomes of a project in the English Literature department at Queen Mary University of London, Reading/Writing Multilingualism, which involved year 10 and 12 students from two local secondary schools who have English as an additional language.     

Digital literacy,fake news and education / Alfabetización digital,fake news y educación

Abstract

The role of digital literacy in strengthening citizens’ resilience to misinformation and ‘fake news’ has been the subject of research projects and networking and academic and policy discourses in recent years, given prominence by an escalation of the perceived crisis following election and referendum results in the US and UK respectively. This special issue sets out to take forward critical dialogue in the field of media and digital literacy education by publishing rigorous research on the subject. The research disseminated in this collection speaks to the political and economic contexts for ‘fake news’, the complex issue of trust and the risks of educational solutionism; questions of definition and policy implementation; teaching about specific subgenres such as YouTube and clickbait; international comparisons of pedagogic approaches and challenges for teachers in this changing ecosystem.     

Critical Literacy through Initial Teacher Education in English

In this paper, I seek to ascertain whether critical literacy may have an important and realisable place in current English pedagogy, having first tried to establish what is meant by critical literacy, and what its contexts are for my purposes here, including the nature of initial teacher education (ITE). The paper then reports and reflects on some experiences of a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) English group in exploring elements of critical literacy, and focuses especially on two lessons taught by two members of the PGCE group. Whilst acknowledging that any conclusions must be tentative, I go on to propose that a synthesis may be possible between different traditions of English pedagogy to enable critical literacy more easily to flourish.     

Learning to Develop Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Lesson About Cornrowed Lives

This article describes the process of using African American children's literature through culturally relevant pedagogy. It chronicles how two teachers carefully plan a lesson using the literature, and then describes how one of the teachers enacts the lesson using pedagogy relevant to her students' cultural background. A framework that focused on the cultural patterns of the students' lives was used to help guide the planning process. The components of the lesson include a prereading activity, read aloud, group discussion, journal writing, and a follow-up activity. In the end, the teachers found that tailoring instruction to fit the textual, social, cultural, and personal lives of their students is largely about seeing pedagogy through the norms and practices of their students' lives.     

以培养文学专业意识为导向的《基础英语》教学改革

为了增强对学生专业意识的培养,《基础英语》课程应该结合文学专业特点和培养要求,从教学目标、教学内容、教学方法以及评估体系四个方面向专业倾斜,注重渗透专业知识和培养学生的专业兴趣,为高年级的专业课教学做好铺垫。     

地方本科院校英语专业文学素养培养现状调查及教学启示探究

英语专业人才培养应回归其人文属性,学生的文学素养应受到重视。但调查发现,地方性院校在人才培养方案的制订时,文学类课程受到不断压缩;而且,迫于课时限制,知识性内容占据大量课堂时间。与此同时,经过一年的文学课程之后,学生的文学知识呈现爆发式增长,文学阅读兴趣高昂。但是,学生没有养成良好的文学阅读习惯,阅读兴趣未能转化为阅读行为,文学素养状况依然不容乐观。因此,教师应改变固化观念,拓展教学深度,增强文学审美体验。     

A recommendation for a new lnternet-based environment for studying literature

The effects of information and communication technologies, which are rapidly improving and spreading in the current age, can be seen in the field of training and education as well as in all other fields. Unlike previous technologies, the Internet, which is the concrete compound of those technologies, provides users with the trio of audio, text and visual materials digitally and simultaneously. This new learning environment, which allows users to individually plan the learning process according to their preferences, has been also effective in changing traditional attitudes and habits related to reading. Nowadays, parallel to these changes, it has become necessary to teach literature in a virtual environment, or, at least, to make a connection with that environment. In this study, the authors first discuss the condition of literature on the lnternet considering the lnternet-literature connection and the features of reading lnternet-based literary texts. Then, depending on a literature review, the authors propose a new Internet-based learning environment for teaching literature considering the extent of computer literacy, as defined by Shapiro and Hughes （1996）.     

Reading and Writing: Digital Directions

The authors show that IT hardware and software are having an effect on literacy. As well as being aware of those changes, English teachers, they argue, should be exploiting IT for the development of those reading and writing skills necessary for the future. The article goes on to exemplify, through an exploration of how it came to be written, some of the processes and opportunities identified earlier.     

基于交互式教学法的英语专业外报阅读课堂教学

文章以“发现学习”的教学设计模式为出发点,阐述英语专业外报阅读课采用交互式教学法的必要性,介绍交互式教学法在外报阅读课教学过程中的具体运用,探讨采用交互式教学法的现实意义和应该注意的问题。     

Reading ads,reading the world

This paper challenges the reductive notion of children as ‘efferent'¹1 A term used by Rosenblatt (1938 Rosenblatt, L. 1938. Literature as Exploration. New York: Appleton-Century. [Google Scholar]) to critique the teaching of reading which involved students in ‘taking away’ a particular meaning. readers who learn to decode written language in order to ‘take away’ knowledge. This anachronistic idea has become entrenched in current UK curriculum and education policy. However, it is well established that decoding letters and sounds is only one aspect of reading, that reading is cultural and that learning to read, not only words but also images and sounds, develops children's comprehension and criticality. With this in mind, I seek to share a process through which children and young people were able to develop as readers with a particular focus on the reading of media texts. I present an account of media education activity which focused on the way children read media texts, in the classroom. I suggest that with appropriate pedagogic and conceptual tools children develop as critical, cultural and collaborative readers of words, images, sounds and texts and thereby of the world.     

Strategies and students: beginning teachers' early encounters with national policy

The 1‐year Postgraduate Certificate in Education Secondary English method course at the University of Sheffield's School of Education has, since 2001, asked its students to write an essay of around 4000 words on their initial understanding and experience of the National Strategies promoted by the United Kingdom's Department for Education and Skills. The essay expects a critical, reflective and analytical piece of writing that records the student teacher's developing views on the place, role and value of the National Strategies in the classroom. Using grounded theory and content analysis techniques, this small‐scale study of the 2005 cohort identifies common perceptions regarding the National Strategies among student teachers of English and seeks to categorise these to account for their developing identities as future English teachers. Drawing on Twiselton's identification of teacher types, Task Manager, Curriculum Deliverer and Concept/Skill Builder, and Shulman's classification of knowledges necessary for teaching, this article will argue that the National Strategies and their respective Frameworks, while successful in moving teachers on from the role of ‘Task Managers’, runs the risk of locking teachers into being ‘Curriculum Deliverers’, and not developing the pedagogical content knowledge necessary for teaching English expertly.     

互联网主导时代高校图书馆的阅读引导——以浙江工商大学图书馆为例

进入21世纪后,高校图书馆的数字资源在不断增加和扩展,其阅读引导方式亟需整合、改进和创新。图书馆一方面可以利用自身的优势,把适合学校发展与教学、科研需要的网络信息资源,做进一步筛选、整合,创建一套以馆藏信息资源为主的网络学科导航目录;另一方面,通过举办读书节活动、一站式检索等多种新颖的线上线下创新服务,对互联网主导时代高校图书馆的阅读引导进行多途径探索。     

媒介素养教育与大学英语课程的整合研究

媒介素养是信息社会的重要能力。在我国当前尚未形成有效的媒介素养教育体系的形式下,大学英语学科与媒介素养教育进行整合具有诸多优势。本研究通过质性分析和量化分析相结合的方法,对媒介素养与大学英语课程整合的教学实践结果进行了分析探讨。研究证明,大学英语课程与媒介素养教育整合的教学方式能有效提高学生的媒介素养能力,在当前环境下不失为高校开展媒介素养教育的一个有效途径。该研究也反映出学生媒介素养水平偏低的现状,需要引起有关人士的重视。     

文学经典阅读与大学生审美教育

文学经典可以厚实人的文化积淀,为人打造精神的底子,给人提供审美经验,使人健康全面地发展.文学经典阅读是一个人构建精神家园、创造诗意世界的重要活动.欣赏文学经典,实际上是在与智慧之人对话,是在精神家园进行心灵的旅行,是在与"真、善、美"遇合.因此,文学经典阅读提高大学生的审美素养成为可能.文学阅读教学应为学生的阅读构筑审美空间、创设品味阅读的情境、搭建张扬个性的平台,并让文学阅读成为学生的一种生存方式.