谈大学高年级学生外语交际技能的强化训练

高年级学生外语交际技能的强化训练成为目前大学英语教学中的一个突出方面。强化训练应把握好学生的生理、心理特点,针对其实际外语水平,选取适宜的材料,采取针对性训练方法,创造可能的外语氛围,并充分发挥学生个体和教学集体的主观能动性,就能在有限的时间内取得显著训练效果。     

Computer-aided Learning and Teaching of Information Skills for Engineering Students

The paper discusses the use of computers in the teaching of engineering students. A distinction is made between using computers for word-processing, etc., and using computer-based educational packages. While engineering education has been slow to take up computer-aided learning, a gradually increasing awareness of computer capabilities suggests a possible increase in computer-aided learning/teaching in future.     

高校辅导员与学生沟通的技巧

与学生的沟通是辅导员日常工作的重要部分,只有通过沟通,辅导员才能发现学生中存在的问题并解决问题。辅导员只有掌握了与学生沟通的技巧,才能使沟通变得有效顺畅,有利于工作的开展。     

Teaching Communication Skills to Medical Students: Unexpected attitudes and outcomes

Experiences in teaching communication skills to medical and veterinary medical students are described. The first involved unexpected attitudes of resentment arising when students took on the role of a patient undergoing a clinical examination. The emergence of empathy as a learning issue due to greater self-awareness was a useful outcome. The second involved resistance to dealing with ethical problems arising during problem-based learning cases. These two emotionally laden attitudes would not have been revealed if more passive traditional ways of teaching had been used. While ability to empathise with another and the ability to deal with difficult interpersonal situations are desirable in the medical professional, there is a paucity of teaching approaches dealing with this aspect of self-development in the undergraduate curriculum. This poses a real challenge to us as facilitators of learning.     

研究生层次工程类应用型人才培养模式的探索与实践

科技进步有力地促进了工程技术发展,工程技术发展又为科技进步提供了强大支撑,同时也对应用型人才应具备的素质和能力提出了新的更高的要求。然而,就实际情况来看,我国高校现有的人才培养模式都不同程度存在着重理论、轻工程实践的问题,所培养的人才还不能适应工程技术现代化的需求,应进一步改进。本文在分析我国工程类应用人才培养现状的基础上,对研究生层次工程类应用人才特征与能力要求进行了研究,并对该类人才的培养模式进行了探索与实践。     

浅谈医学教育中医患沟通技巧的培养

医患沟通是否成功很大程度上取决于医务人员的态度和沟通技巧。当今社会,医患关系紧张,良好的医患沟通是化解医患矛盾的有效方式。因此,医务人员沟通技巧的培养应从医学生抓起,并且贯穿整个医学教育的始终。     

制造工程专业学生实际工作能力培养研究

通过分析企业对工程专业学生的要求及其存在的差距,从课程教学与考核方式、实验与实习教学、课程设计与毕业设计等方面探讨了造成这些差距的原因。在吸收国外高校成功经验的基础上,针对存在的问题提出了加强工程专业学生实际工作能力的对策。     

How Technical Communication Textbooks Fail Engineering Students

Twelve currently popular technical communication textbooks are analyzed for their treatment and discussions of the types of writing that engineers produce. The analysis reveals a persistent bias toward humanities-based styles and genres and a failure to address the forms of argument and evidence that our science and engineering students most need to master to succeed as rhetoricians in their fields. The essay ends with recommendations and calls upon instructors to reenvision the service course in technical communication.     

Improving Oral Communication Skills of Students in Food Science Courses

ABSTRACT: Communication activities about food evaluation were incorporated into food preparation courses. Oral reports replaced quizzes and an oral presentation replaced the final exam. A rubric was developed to help students evaluate ingredient functions, procedures, techniques, temperatures, and sensory evaluation. Oral report scores, self-evaluations, course evaluations, final grades, and the instructors' observations were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the communication activities. Students learned professional language and practiced professional behaviors. These types of practice opportunities are critical to students' development and important for the food science profession.     

提高大学生英语交流技能的策略探讨

本文从分析大学生中英语学习"哑聋症"的原因入手,找出大学生在听力和口语的学习中存在的问题,提出复述、模仿和主流文化在口语学习中的重要性,并就大学生如何提高英语听力提出一些建议。     

Distributed leadership of school curriculum change: an integrative approach

Since its inception in 1999, the distributed leadership framework of Spillane, Halverson, and Diamond [2004. “Towards a Theory of Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 36 (1): 3–34. doi:10.1080/0022027032000106726] has supported research into leadership and change in schools. Whilst the conceptual integrity of the framework is sound, research based upon its premises has attracted some criticism. The research has had a narrowed focus which has not generally reflected the inseparability of the elements of the framework and the situation within which leadership is enacted. In addition, it often fails to account for the complexity of critical elements of the environment such as micropolitics. This position paper proposes a reconfiguration of the distributed leadership framework as a research framework in response to this critique. The paper asserts that this new perspective that is presented is able to respond to the critique through an integrated approach that encompasses situation, social distribution and task enactment and which supports an integrated approach to research methodology. This adapted framework has the potential to more fully support research design that is actuality holistic and embedded in the context.     

工科博士生科研创新的技巧与创新能力培养

从博士生自身角度探讨工科博士生的创新技巧和创新能力培养,具有重要的现实意义。在创新要素与创新动机的思考基础上,结合国防科技大学雷达信号处理专业部分创新实践,从问题创新和方法创新方面总结了相应的创新技巧,最后对工科博士生创新能力的培养提出若干建议。     

英语教学中师生之间的有效交流技巧

师生之间的有效交流是达到教学目标、提高教学质量和效果、增强师生关系和学生学习效率的一个重要方面。通过几年的英语教学实践,认真探讨了有效的交流方法;在实践中探讨了我们在言语交流和非言语交流中值得注意的一些有效技巧,其中有:面部表情、目光接触、姿势、手势语以及身体之间的距离。     

Facilitating Discussions: Skills for Teachers and Students

In this article, the author addresses the problem of content knowledge dominating the school curriculum and the resultant marginalization of sociocivic and moral dispositions. Given the problems associated with teaching dispositions directly, the author offers four curricular aims that collectively develop the attitudes required of democratic citizens through deliberate employment in daily curriculum planning.     

Reframing our approach to doctoral programs: an integrative framework for action and research

A serious problem exists in the academic world, namely doctoral education attrition rates that approach 50% in some disciplines. Yet, calls for action have generally been ad hoc rather than theory driven. Further, research has not been conceived and implemented with sufficient breadth to integrate factors influencing the outcomes across the societal/supra‐societal, institutional and departmental/disciplinary contexts. Concurrently, epistemological questions are being directed at the appropriateness of both the content and the process of doctoral programs. In this paper, we propose as a heuristic, an integrative framework of nested contexts to guide both research and action. The framework integrates the range of factors influencing doctoral student experience, so that we can envision responding to this issue in a coherent and effective fashion.     

Understanding literacy development of language minority students: an integrative approach

This special issue of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal contains nine papers by researchers who presented at the Language and Reading Comprehension for Immigrant Children (LARCIC) conference, which took place at OISE/University of Toronto in 2009. The first set of five papers focuses on the contribution of cognitive factors to reading comprehension in language minority children, and the second set of four papers focuses on the joint effects of cognitive and socio-cultural factors on literacy development in these children. Three common themes emerge in the first set of papers. The first theme compares the cognitive processes that contribute to reading comprehension between language minority children and their peers who speak the societal language as the first language. In particular, the application of the Simple View of Reading model in language minority children is discussed. The second theme compares the reading performance of language minority children to their peers. The third theme explores the nature of reading constructs in language minority children. Two common themes underlie the second set of papers. The first theme addresses the mediating role of socio-cultural factors in vocabulary development in language minority children. The second theme explores the joint effects of cognitive and socio-cultural factors on cross-language transfer of literacy skills. Taken together, the papers presented in this special issue point to the importance of considering both cognitive and socio-cultural factors in literacy research involving language minority children.     

基于临床医患沟通过程谈医学生沟通技能的培养

根据临床医患沟通的过程环节存在的障碍分析,提出在医学教育环节,应对医学生进行人文精神、职业素质的养成教育,强化人际沟通能力的培训,训练其良好的心理素质;在临床环节、改善医疗环境、给予足够的时间等,达到有效沟通的目的。     

高校工科学生实践教学与实践技能问题研究

实践环节教学作为高等学校工科类专业培养计划的一个有机组成部分,是培养工科学生技能与技巧的重要环节。阐述工科类专业实践教学的重要性,分析实践教学中存在的困难与问题,提出提高实践环节教学质量的方法与对策,以期对高等学校实践教学的改革进行探索。     

Effects of Social Skills Training for Students with an Intellectual Disability

This study examined the effects of a computer‐assisted social skills intervention on the social competence of 73 students with a mild intellectual disability (age range: 11.0 to 15.0) within an experimental and control group design. The experimental group (N= 38) was trained with the I Found a Solution computer‐supported package while the control group (N= 35) worked on computer‐related keyboard and writing skills. The intervention consisted of the computer‐supported program and teacher‐guided work, small‐group discussions and transfer to actual real‐life conflicts. Each student was assessed before and after the training on: teacher‐rated social skills and disruptive behaviour, peer‐rated social acceptance, and self‐rated loneliness. A 2‐way MANOVA with repeated measures (grouping by gender, with pre/post training scores as the repeated measures) revealed that the experimental group increased their different measures of social competence, and the differences between them and the control group were significant following the intervention. However, no significant differences between the experimental and control groups were found in their loneliness experience. Implications for intervention and additional research are discussed.