Changing English in a Changing World

This paper first investigates the phenomenon of changing English in our global village and the possible reasons for the changes,and then tries to discuss how people can understand this kind of change in terms of English is regarded as lingua franca nowadays.Finally,the implications and suggestions are drawn in terms of how people should have appropriate attitudes towards those changes.     

关于教育基本概念的创新探索

教育的基本概念是教育理论的核心问题。教育基本概念的创新可以促进教育理论的创新,可以从泛化的概念、广义的概念、狭义的概念、专业的概念四个角度进行教育基本概念的创新探索。     

改变方向

“No! ”I stated without apology, “I’m not giving you one red cent.”The beggar flipped me off with a stream of profanity.     

“换小孩”引发的英语标识风波

2008年8月，一场“换小孩”的英语标识风波，在祖国宝岛台湾闹得沸沸扬扬。当月4日，台北一家大报在头版位置发表文章，详细报道数条地铁线里给婴儿换尿布的台子，“错误”使用了Baby Changing这样的英文标识。文章说，“双铁”翻译“出包”（笔者注：     

英语屈折形式的演变

英语是印欧语系中西日曼语的一支。现代英语是分析性的语言，而古英语却是高度综合性的语言，与其它的印欧语相比，现代英语的词尾屈折变化最少。本拟就英语词尾屈折变化的发展过程作一探源，并以名词、动词为例，比较了现代英语同古英语、中古英语、早期现代珠词尾屈折变化特点，旨在揭示语言由综合到分析、由词形的多变化到无变化的发展过程。     

Youth Practitioner Professional Narratives: Changing Identities in Changing Times

This paper examines youth practitioner professionality responses to neo-liberal policy changes in youth work and the youth support sector in the UK, from New Labour to Conservative-led administrations. Using a narrative inquiry approach, six early career practitioners explore and recount their experiences of moving into the field during changing political times. The narratives reveal differentiated responses to a climate of increasing managerialism and performativity but point to the value of narrative capital as a personalised resource.     

The Changing Boots

There was a little boy in Kindergarten. He cried, so the teacher asked him what was wrong. He sobbed, "I can't find my boots." The teacher looked around the classroom and saw a pair of boots, "Are these yours?"     

Changing teaching styles

Eleven tutor counsellors in the British Open University were interviewed to ascertain how they responded to the idea of using a facilitative teaching style in their tutorials. Their responses have been analysed by a systems model of the tutorial process which indicates the extent to which they possessed a coherent framework, appropriate for teaching in a distance education teaching system. The interviews revealed factors which have echoes in student learning research and which, taken together, offer a tentative explanation of why some tutor counsellors were more amenable to changing their teaching styles than others. This has implications for staff development, not only in distance education systems but for teaching in general.