浅论成人英语口语教学中流畅与准确的关系

在学习英语的过程中，口语的流畅性和准确性这两个相互矛盾的要素总是阻碍着口语能力的提高。作为语言教学工作者，我们应该大胆尝试任何可能的方法使学生摆脱进退两难的困境。在此文中，作者试图通过对日常教学实例的研究，分析学生学习语言的客观进程为切入点，提出对两要素进行均衡训练的教学思路，以期激励学生尽快渡过口语学习中止步不前的阶段，继续前进。     

An Oral Reading Fluency Assessment for Young Adult Career and Technical Education Students

Educators confront a difficult challenge of quickly and efficiently identifying students with literacy skill deficits in academically diverse career and technical education classes. A statistical examination of oral reading fluency (ORF) of 296 at‐risk students participating in Job Corps tests the hypothesis that a 2‐minute, two‐dimensional ORF task is a useful tool for differentiating the basic literacy skills of these students. This study formed four student groups on this basis and statistically demonstrated the groups were distinct in terms of standardized assessments of reading and cognitive processing: phonological processing, processing speed, memory, and integrated and fluent reading with comprehension. We discuss the implications of these findings for further diagnostic reading assessments and instructional planning.     

Relations Among Oral Reading Fluency,Silent Reading Fluency,and Reading Comprehension: A Latent Variable Study of First-Grade Readers

In the present study, we examined oral and silent reading fluency and their relations with reading comprehension. In a series of structural equation models with latent variables using data from 316 first-grade students, (a) silent and oral reading fluency were found to be related yet distinct forms of reading fluency, (b) silent reading fluency predicted reading comprehension better for skilled readers than for average readers, (c) list reading fluency predicted reading comprehension better for average readers than for skilled readers, and (d) listening comprehension predicted reading comprehension better for skilled readers than for average readers.     

面向成人学习者的远程高等教育专业课程体系开发模式

专业培养方案和课程体系是人才培养的蓝本,是课程开发的基础。专业课程体系的开发是系统层面的教学设计,需要科学、系统的方法。然而,由于目前远程教育领域专业课程体系开发方法的缺失,导致了实践中“重视课程开发、忽视专业课程体系开发”,以及专业课程体系开发时简单、随意的现象。远程高等教育以应用型人才为培养目标,培养对象为成人在职远程学习者。因此,针对远程高等教育、面向成人远程学习者的专业课程体系开发方法必须以成人远程学习者为中心,并坚持以“社会实践需求为主、能力为本,兼顾学科与学生需求”的开发理念。DECDA开发模式是针对远程教育特别是学历教育专业课程体系开发提出的一个完整流程和一套系统的方法,包括职业分析,学习者分析,实践能力需求分析,课程体系规划,以及实施、评价与修订5个阶段,不仅紧密贴近社会实践需求,还兼顾成人远程学习者的特点和学科需求,可以为我国远程教育机构开发有用、有效的专业课程体系、提高人才培养质量提供方法指导。实践应用的案例也证明,DECDA模式开发流程和方法具有较好的可操作性。     

Oral Reading Fluency as an Indicator of Reading Competence: A Theoretical,Empirical, and Historical Analysis

The purpose of this article is to consider oral reading fluency as an indicator of overall reading competence. We begin by examining theoretical arguments for supposing that oral reading fluency may reflect overall reading competence. We then summarize several studies substantiating this phenomenon. Next, we provide an historical analysis of the extent to which oral reading fluency has been incorporated into measurement approaches during the past century. We conclude with recommendations about the assessment of oral reading fluency for research and practice.     

成人高教改革的动向和趋势

成人高等教育必须明确以在职成人为教育对象,逐步降低非成人在成人高等教育中的比例,加大大学后继续教育在成人高等教育中的比重;扩大高层次成人高等教育的招生规模,拓宽办学渠道,多形式、多主体举办成人高等教育;实施远程教学,为学习提供更多的选择机会和选择权;实现产业化管理,提高高等教育资源的利用率,优化资源配置。     

加强成人高等教育中的文化素质教育

成人学生的素质教育如何,决定着他的发展方向和发展水平,也决定着我们国家和民族的发展。本文从文化素质教育在成人教育中的重要性出发,论述了在成人教育中如何加强文化素质教育。     

基于成人学习特点的教师培训者专业能力探析

教师培训者专业困境的根源在于对服务对象研究的缺失。这使教师培训者在培训课程与教学方面表现出对象感缺乏,目标和内容科学性欠缺以及形式、方法应用适切性较弱。教师培训者应基于成人学习特点,在培训需求调研、课程与教学目标体系构建、课程体系的建设,以及课程与教学的实施等方面提升自我的专业能力。     

远程教育中成人学习特性的研究

成人学习者的学习动机和学习策略是当前成人救育研究领域的重要课题.通过质的研究方法,作者认为成人学习体现出以下特性:成人学习是功利性为基础的学习;成人学习者表现出明确的自我导向意识;成人学习者强调学习内容与个体自我经验的整合;成人学习者的学习策略依据个人判断体现不同的个性特征;成人学习者注重成员之间的合作、交往和评价.     

面向成人教育的移动有声读物阅读推广

随着移动互联网技术和数字阅读的兴起,移动有声阅读成为数字时代人们的流行阅读方式。移动有声读物能够很好地满足成人随时随地碎片化阅读的需求,在成人教育中具有广阔的应用前景。探讨面向成人教育的移动有声读物阅读推广,对改善成人教育学生的阅读现状、提高成人教育的质量有着重要的现实意义。本文在分析成人阅读现状和影响成人教育学生阅读因素的基础上,探讨了移动有声读物在成人教育中应用的可行性及其价值,提出了面向成人教育的移动有声读物阅读推广的具体策略。     

对成人参与高等教育的动机取向、学习成就的分析

本文运用调查分析的方法对成人参与高等教育的动机取向、学习成就以及相关因素进行分析,提出成人参与高等教育的四个动机取向类型,以及影响学习成就的七个因素,并依据分析所得,提出发展及改进我国成人高等教育的几点建议。     

面向成人学习者的微型学习资源分类研究

本研究首先根据成人学习者的特征,从实用性视角出发,对大众分类标签进行词频分析,提出微型学习资源的分类雏形.而后为迎合未来发展趋势,增加了开放维度.最后,研究者建立起形成实用目的、资源形式、资源时长、适合人群、学习结果五大视角的适合成人学习者的微型学习资源开放立体的分类框架.     

The Relations Among Oral and Silent Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Middle School: Implications for Identification and Instruction of Students With Reading Difficulties

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations among oral and silent reading fluency and reading comprehension for students in Grades 6 to 8 (n = 1,421) and the use of fluency scores to identify middle school students who are at risk for failure on a high-stakes reading test. Results indicated moderate positive relations between measures of fluency and comprehension. Oral reading fluency (ORF) on passages was more strongly related to reading comprehension than ORF on word lists. A group-administered silent reading sentence verification test approximated the classification accuracy of individually administered ORF passages. The correlation between a maze task and comprehension was weaker than has been reported for elementary students. The best predictor of a high-stakes reading comprehension test was the previous year's administration of the grade-appropriate test; fluency and verbal knowledge measures accounted for only small amounts of unique variance beyond that accounted for by the previous year's administration.     

The Invisible Majority: Adult Learners in English Higher Education

The report of the National Inquiry into Higher Education (the Dearing Committee) makes much play of lifelong learning, and the last decade has seen a rapid increase in the proportion of mature learners in higher education overall. In 1993 the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education argued that the advent of lifelong learning and an adult majority in higher education called for a radical rethinking of the nature and purposes of higher education. There has been some positive change, and the Dearing report is broadly positive, but by failing to recognise the nature of the lifelong agenda, it may be too little too late.     

素质教育与能力培养

章通过分析素质教育的根本目的，阐述了素质与能力的辩证关系，并对如何培养学生能力，开展素质教育提出了看法，认为在实际教育教学中应努力做到疏难精重，启发思维，触类旁通，加强实践。     

论成人教育与社区教育的生成关系

党中央提出了“形成全民学习、终身学习的学习型社会,促进人的全面发展”的目标,社区教育和成人教育如何抓住这一契机,促进和谐社会的形成,其中厘清成人教育和社区教育的生成关系有其重要意义。因为只有这样,才能最大限度地发挥二者的作用。     

All-round Translation Teaching Approach Suitable for Adult Learners of the Open Distance Education

Through the analysis of the characteristics of the adult students in the open distance education and on the basis of constructivism,the researcher tentatively proposed an All-round Translation Teaching Approach under the guidance of the theories of constructivism in order to improve translation teaching of the open distance education.     

英语专业学习者接受式隐喻能力与阅读水平相关性的实证研究

隐喻能力是构成语言概念流利和交际能力的重要组成部分,调查表明,大概每三句母语产出的英语句子中,就至少出现一次隐喻表达。因此,隐喻能力的高低在一定程度上直接决定学习者的语言能力。Azuma博士在前人研究的基础上,提出了隐喻能力由接受式隐喻能力和产出式隐喻能力两部分组成,后者比前者更难习得。对英语专业一年级学生进行实证研究,结果显示其接受式隐喻能力与阅读水平呈正相关,但接受式隐喻能力仍然偏低。     

成人师范专升本教育能力培养的教学论问题

成人师范专升本教育是成人教育的特殊领域 ,从理论、现实和特殊性出发 ,探讨其能力培养的教学模式和实践 ,是实现内涵发展的必然要求。