谈信息时代中小学英语教师信息素养的培养

当今社会,信息技术已成为推动外语教学改革的一支重要力量,对优化外语教学环境有着巨大的潜力,迫切要求广大中小学英语教师提高其信息素养。目前我国农村中小学英语教师信息素养普遍偏低。培养观念淡化,只有广大一线教师积极行动来,积极提高自身信息素养,才能为我国的素质教育做出更大的贡献。     

Collaborative knowledge building to promote in-service teacher training in environmental education

Abstract

This project was undertaken by researchers at three universities in England where there is a well established tradition of introducing student teachers to Information Technology. Questionnaires were administered at three key points in the course to a student group in each university, to establish how students' concepts of IT were developing and to identify key influences on their practice and their thinking. Selected students were interviewed towards the end of their teaching practice, as was the school mentor for each student wherever possible, and all staff in the student's host department were invited to complete a questionnaire. All tapes were transcribed. The study suggests that student teachers of English have a broader view of literacy than is currently predominant in schools and this view positively embraces the role of IT in literacy. Student teachers do not envisage the disappearance of books, instead they see a wider and more inclusive range of texts, including the electronic, as part of the normal focus of the English teacher. Practising teachers of English range from those with an essentially negative attitude to IT, to an increasing number who are themselves developing this broader view of literacy. Current pre-service provision appears to be succeeding in giving new English teachers a positive and committed attitude towards the use of IT in the current and future literacy curriculum.     

高职英语教师的信息素养及其培养路径研究

高职教师具备良好的信息素养,是教育信息化的需要,是培养高素质、高技能、应用型人才的需要,是教师专业化发展的需要。文章探讨了高职英语教师信息素养的构成和信息素养培养过程中存在的问题,提出了高职英语教师信息素养培养的有效途径。     

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.     

高职英语教师教学评价素养提升策略刍探

教师的教学评价素养,是教师为了促进学生的发展,在对教学活动是否实现目标进行判断与反馈的过程中所体现出来的意识、知识与能力等.在高职英语教学中,英语教师要做到以评促改,以评促学,以评促教.文章分析高职英语教师教学评价素养现状,探讨高职英语教师教学评价素养的内涵和能力要素,指出高职英语教师教学评价素养提升策略是转变教学评价...     

What English Language Teachers from the Peoples’ Republic of China find Surprising about Information Technology: Thoughts on How to Address the Need for Change

Recent educational reforms in China are placing increasing emphasis on the integration of new technologies in the English language curriculum. At the same time, a debate has begun concerning the effectiveness of Information Technology (IT) usage in transforming language pedagogy in the Chinese context. In response to points made in the discussions published to date, this paper describes an attempt to instill new ways of viewing the potential of IT with a group of practicing teachers studying for a Post‐graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching in Singapore. End‐of‐course survey data were used to identify what the trainees found surprising about the course. This method uncovered some of their hopes and fears about using IT in their future classes and provided clues as to how to bring about positive learning outcomes with IT. Discussion of the results shows that Chinese teachers share similar challenges as their counterparts in the West when it comes to using IT for the first time. The paper ends with a string of suggestions about how to begin the process of innovation with IT, both in and beyond China.     

Competing priorities: Singaporean teachers’ perspectives on critical literacy

This paper explores a group of Singaporean English language teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about critical literacy as well as their perspectives on how best to teach literacy and critical literacy in Singapore schools. A face-to-face survey was conducted among 58 English language teachers by using open-ended questions. The survey covered various topics related to literacy instruction including text decoding, meaning construction, and critical analysis of texts. The participating teachers believed strongly that reading and writing are transactional and interactional practices. However, they were less certain in their beliefs about teaching critical literacy including the critical, analytical and evaluative aspects of text reading. Some teachers saw a conflict between using time on teaching critical literacy and preparing students to pass their exams. As critical literacy is not a requirement at exams, they found it difficult to justify using time teaching it. The results suggest that the teachers’ belief systems are strongly influenced by the broad macro-structure of the educational system in Singapore and their own educational experiences.     

An ethical analysis of how ESL teachers construct their professional identities through the use of information technology in teaching

While there is growing recognition of the mutually shaping relationship between teaching with information technology (IT) and teachers’ beliefs, skills and self-efficacy, there has been a paucity of research attention on the construction of teacher identity during actual IT-assisted in-class teaching and out-of-class networking with students, in a full institutional and social context. This study investigates how a group of secondary school English as a second language (ESL) teachers regulated their teaching and practices and constructed their identities in relation to governmental requirements for the use of IT in teaching. Teachers from seven government-subsidised schools in Hong Kong were interviewed about their experiences of using IT in teaching. We frame the reported practices of these teachers as a process of construction of identity, formed in the context of the ‘governmentality’ supporting current examination-oriented educational policy. Observing from the perspective of what has been termed ‘governmentality’ and an ethical framework for self-formation of personal identity makes it possible to see these teachers’ professional identities constructed through the use of IT practices within the contradictory conditions of professional/personal demands, compliance/resistance, school promotion/peer non-cooperation, advantage/disadvantage in use of IT, use of IT/content and pedagogical knowledge. This study has implications for developing a more supportive and rational environment for the use of IT in teaching, in which more autonomy and identity options—rather than constraints—can be provided for teachers in the digital era. This study also informs practitioners and policy makers in other educational settings experiencing a similar IT boom in teaching.     

重视英语教学模式提升学生核心素养探究

高中阶段的英语教学不仅要提高学生的英语语言能力,更要关注学生英语核心素养的培养。文章分析高中英语教学中培养核心素养的现状,探讨合作探究模式在高中英语素质养成实践中的应用策略,指出教师要以小组合作强化学生合作学习能力,以互动交流提高学生实际运用能力,以自主探究培养学生主动学习能力。     

教育信息化环境与教师信息素养培养

分析了我国信息化教育教学中存在的问题,讨论了提高教师信息素养对于在教育信息化环境下开展教育教学活动的重要意义,进一步讨论了培训教师教育信息技术的方法和途径。     

The views of Nigerian teachers in public and private primary schools on the teaching of early literacy in English

Drawing on the bilingual policies and biliteracy programmes of African nations, this paper discusses the context of literacy education in Nigeria and examines Nigerian early literacy teachers’ attitudes to teaching literacy and literacy teaching practices as informed by the National Policy on Education, Primary English Language Curriculum and the teaching–learning milieu. The paper also reports the findings of a survey in which respondents to a questionnaire expressed their views and understanding of the primary English curriculum and their own relations and experiences with it, as well as their own competencies and self‐concept as literacy teachers. Results indicated the need to train Nigerian teachers to adopt a much wider perspective in literacy, which recognises the opportunities for developing the interrelated strands of literacy. Governments should also consider practising teachers’ professional identities and growth in decision‐making and curriculum development. This will enhance their understanding of ideologies in policy and practice.     

A Retrospective: Fifteen Years of Computers in English

The initial observations of English teachers that computers have the potential to support collaboration, creativity, independent learning, subversion and reflection have been confirmed by fifteen years of work in the field, as have early concerns that computers could be used to direct inappropriate activities. Questions about the role of the teacher, the function of the computer, as well as the nature of pupils' learning when using IT, are now much better understood. Yet changes in the educational context within which English teachers are working, new understandings engendered by major curriculum projects and developments in the technologies themselves have brought about a shift in understanding of the significance of IT and its impact on the English curriculum. This paper shows how publications from the NATEMCET stable reflect the emergence of the field of English and IT.     

基于核心素养理念的初中英语阅读教学实践研究

素质教育的不断发展,引起了教师的思考,教师的教学理念发生了转变,培养学生的核心素养开始进入教师视野。而英语教学中最能有效培养学生核心素养的方法就是英语阅读,而如何利用英语阅读培养学生的核心素养,就是我们需要共同探讨的问题。本文首先分析初中英语阅读教学现状,然后探讨基于核心素养理念的初中英语阅读教学实践方法。     

What digital games and literacy have in common: a heuristic for understanding pupils' gaming literacy

This article argues that digital games and school‐based literacy practices have much more in common than is reported in the research literature. We describe the role digital game paratexts – ancillary print and multimodal texts about digital games – can play in connecting pupils’ gaming literacy practices to ‘traditional’ school‐based literacies still needed for academic success. By including the reading, writing and design of digital game paratexts in the literacy curriculum, teachers can actively and legitimately include digital games in their literacy instruction. To help teachers understand pupils’ gaming literacy practices in relation to other forms of literacy practices, we present a heuristic for understanding gaming (HUG) literacy. We argue our heuristic can be used for effective teacher professional development because it assists teachers in identifying the elements of gameplay that would be appropriate for the demands of the literacy curriculum. The heuristic traces gaming literacy across the quadrants of actions, designs, situations and systems to provide teachers and practitioners with a knowledge of gameplay and a metalanguage for talking about digital games. We argue this knowledge will assist them in capitalising on pupils’ existing gaming literacy by connecting their out‐of‐school gaming literacy practices to the literacy and English curriculum.     

Literacy and the idea of English

The possibility is considered that the intuitive judgments of experienced English teachers about what is and is not appropriate ‘English’ content embody knowledge, and indeed potential theory, that are worth studying and making explicit as a way of moving towards an adequate theory for English. As an example, a text by Isaiah Berlin is examined, which both enacts a quality important to English and makes a relevant statement. Before that, a curricular initiative, deriving not from professional knowledge but from inadequate doctrine that makes ‘literacy’ the overarching business of English, is found wanting.     

基于核心素养的初中英语语言能力培养策略探究

在初中英语教学过程中,如何在核心素养影响下对学生的语言能力进行最大限度的培养和提高,已经成为初中英语教师的首要教学任务之一.基于此,本文首先简要分析了当下初中英语语言能力教学的现状,其次提出了在核心素养影响下能更好地对初中生的语言能力进行培养的合理有效策略.     

核心素养培养视域下高职英语教学策略研究

现阶段,我国高职院校在开展英语教学的过程中仍存在学生英语基础薄弱、教师缺乏对学生核心素养培养意识、教学方式过于陈旧等不足,这些都在一定程度上制约和影响了英语课堂教学的实际效果。高职英语教师应树立核心素养的理念并以此为导向实施教学。在解读核心素养内涵的基础上,从强化课堂互动环节、改革教学方式、提高英语教师对核心素养的认识三个角度全面而深入地探究核心素养培养视域下有效提升高职英语教学的可行性策略。     

核心素养视角下高中英语阅读教学策略探研

培养学生核心素养是目前我国教育学界的一项重点工作,新课程标准要求教师在教学中必须重视培养学生的核心素养。英语阅读教学作为高中英语的重要组成部分,也必须依照新课标要求培养学生的核心素养。教师在英语阅读教学中应注重发展学生的语言能力、思维能力、跨文化意识和学习能力,进而培养学生的英语核心素养。     

论英语教师语言测试素养的培养

随着英语测试特别是大规模标准化测试在当代社会当中的重要性日益凸显,英语教师的语言测试素养的培养也逐渐成为国内外学者关注的问题。本文首先探讨了语言测试素养的定义,然后从英语教师的职业属性、大规模标准化测试给英语教师的冲击以及测试对于教、学的促进作用等三方面探讨培养语言教师测试素养的重要性,并提出了语言测试素养的培养途径。     

基于网络环境下的大学英语教师信息素养浅析

计算机与网络技术的迅猛发展为外语教学构建起了一个优质的技术平台。信息技术与英语课程整合不仅促进了传统的教学结构与教学模式的根本变革,而且对教师的信息素养提出了新的要求。本文通过对我校基于网络课程设计模式在大学英语教学应用中出现的问题进行调查分析,探讨教师的信息素养内涵和重要性及提高教师信息素养的策略。