Culturally Appropriate Context: Unlocking the Potential of Response to Intervention for English Language Learners

The number of young children whose home language is not English continues to increase every year in the United States. Challenges for English language learners (ELL) involve low academic achievement related to low expectations and inappropriate instruction, and inappropriate assessment instruments or procedures resulting in overrepresentation of ELL students in higher incidence disabilities. In addition, the lack of effective instructional strategies for teaching ELL students often lead to behavioral problems and poor social interaction skills. The purpose of this article is to examine the learning context of young ELLs relative to culturally and linguistically responsive intervention. Components and potentials of response to intervention model were investigated. Essential factors involved in culturally and linguistically responsive intervention were identified. Finally, challenges in preparing culturally appropriate context were discussed.     

Working in the Mathematics Frame: Maximizing the Potential to Learn From Students' Mathematics Classroom Discussions

The quality of students' mathematics classroom discussions is an important factor in determining mathematics classroom learning outcomes. Good mathematics classroom discussions provide an opportunity for ideas to be shared and developed, but not all mathematics classroom discussions produce these learning opportunities. In this paper I discuss three constructs (subject, purpose, and frame) and how they can be used to analyze and characterize the quality of students' mathematics classroom discussions in terms of the mathematics learning potential that those discussions provide. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

广东开放大学潜在学习者调查研究

广东开放大学在新的管理体制和运行机制中开展学历教育与非学历教育,需要对潜在学习者的基本特征以及学习者倾向的学习目标、内容、服务模式等进行细化分析,以保证教育改革的有效性.针对对广东开放大学潜在学习者基本特征的调查分析以及现有服务模式的评价,从课程与教学模式、学习支持服务、评价和管理三个方面进行改进,贯彻“以学生为中心”的教育理念.     

远程学习者的学习引导

加强对远程学习的学习引导，是由现代远程教育的性质、特点及培养目标所决定的。因为远程学习在以往传统学校教育影响下而形成的学习习惯，存在诸多不适应远程学习的现象，对他们的学习引导要侧重于学习动机、自主学习、合作学习等方面，以提高学习在现代远程教育条件下的学习能力。     

Examining Reading Development and Reading Disability in English Language Learners: Potential Contributions from Functional Neuroimaging

Neuroimaging studies have suggested that across different written languages, skilled reading behavior is supported by similar, largely left hemisphere (LH), networks. In addition, recent studies of reading disability (RD) in monolingual readers, conducted in several languages, suggest a common neurobiological signature for this syndrome (disruption of LH posterior regions that support fluent reading). Thus, at the neurobiological level of analysis, reading and its disorders appear to be more similar than dissimilar across languages. In this article, we consider the neurobiology of reading development and RD in English language learners (ELL). There is some evidence suggesting that fluent bilingual readers tend to engage primarily overlapping circuits for both L1 and L2. There is, however, a paucity of neurobiological research on both reading development and RD in this population. Using the existing research on RD as a starting point, we consider in this article how developmental neuroimaging techniques might be applied to (1) help identify RD readers in the ELL populations, and (2) provide neurobiological outcome measures to help evaluate the efficacy of different approaches to the teaching of reading in English.     

自我观:远程学习者的第一内动力

自我观是远程学习者的总开关. 学习动力首先来源于内在的个性倾向,包括学习者的需要、动机、兴趣、意志、观念等心理因素;其次表现为学习活动中的心理体验,包括学习者的控制感、效能感、归因方式、期望感和焦虑感等;再次产生于教学系统的心理触发,包括教学引导、教学服务和环境设计等.对远程学习者而言,优质的教学系统是外动力,即外在的推动力;积极的个性倾向是内动力,即内在的源动力;有效的学习活动则把内外两种动力合二为一,形成新的生长力,即具有体验性、动能性和生态性特征的学习动力.显然,学习动力的提升要从内动力着眼,生长力着手,外动力为辅,要切实体现以学为中心、教服务于学的远程教学思想.     

有效教学：面向具体的学习者——读鲍里奇的《有效教学方法》有感

加里·D·鲍里奇在<有效教学方法>一书中认为,面向学习者的智力水平、人格特征和社会环境等具体因素是判断有效教学的准绳,其具体特征体现为五种关键行为和五种辅助行为的有机统一.为此,需要在教学中采用多样的教学方法和灵活的教学策略以及交错的教学评价.可以说,他提出的面向具体的学习者的有效教学理论决不是可望不可及的,而是切实可行的.     

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.     

计算机辅助模式下外语自主学习者的认知

该文主要研究新兴的计算机辅助学习模式是否能为外语自主学习者创造一个良好的认知环境,改善他们的认知过程及促进他们认知策略的发挥。作者通过问卷调查传统、计算机辅助两种不同模式下外语自主学习者对语言学习过程中认知条件的满意程度,并对以上两组问卷数据进行统计、分析及对比,结果发现计算机辅助模式从整体上明显优于传统模式,它能够在多方面有效地促进外语自主学习者的语言认知。     

农村远程学习者存在的问题调查及对策

农村远程学习者有其特殊性,调查表明．他们普遍存在着学习动机外在性、学习障碍多重性、学习方法传统性、学习心理脆弱性、学习能力缺乏性等学习问题。针对这些问题,作者提出了开展五项教育,落实五大常规,提供五项支持．培养五种能力,采取五项措施的“五五”管理模式,取得了良好的效果。     

软件开发中的项目经理

项目经理的责任和工作质量的好坏直接影响到软件开发项目的成功与否。目前很多软件公司并没有设立这一责任职位,所以这一工作责任的重要性和具体细节在业界内尚未普遍认识。针对这一问题,对项目经理的概念进行了基本的解释和对于项目开发的重要性以及应该具备的基本素质进行了阐述。     

导学员在导学群中的枢纽作用

导学员是开放教育办学模式中十分重要的角色,决定着山西电大导学群服务体系的服务质量。在整个学习过程中,他们是学生学习的“导游”;是导学教师、专业负责人与学生之间的“纽带”;是教务、技术、资源服务与学生学习需求之间的“桥梁”。因此。在开放教育人才培养模式中要十分重视导学员工作。     

The Common Mistakes Among Chinese English Learners

Chinese Style: This book deserves to read several times. American Style: This book deserves to be read several times.Chinese Style: I make a rule of going to bed early and getup early.American Style: I make a rule to keep early hours.Chinese Style: I went to the sea. American Style: I went to the beach.     

远程教育学习者沉淀现象分析

沉淀现象在远程教育实践中普遍存在,这一现象被认为是远程教育机构实行弹性学制的自然结果而被忽视或缺乏研究。对远程教育沉淀现象进行研究,采用统计资料分析法、问卷调查法和访谈法,分析广东某大学网络教育学院的远程学习者的沉淀规律,对远程教育机构在学生支持服务、课程开发与管理等方面提供借鉴。     

21世纪创新型外语人才培养途径的思考

探索21世纪创新型外语人才培养途径,既需要从理论层面进行研究,即探讨创新型外语人才的培养模式;又需要实践层面的应用,即探索培养创新型外语人才的实践途径.培养出一大批创新型外语人才,更好地为国家经济建设和社会发展服务.     

Learners,initiators, servants: The self-images of victorian principals in the 1990s

The professional self-images of principals are integrally related to how they perceive and exercise leadership in specific school settings. This study of a balanced sample of male and female leaders from a cross-section of Victorian schools in the late 1990s reveals that there are key variations related to sectorial identity, level and scale of school, institutional histories and even student gender. It supports the development of nuanced theories about leadership and gender that combat essentialist stereotypes which have dominated in past discourse. It also combats simplistic claims based on school level, sector and student gender. The findings carry implications for principal selection and development which require fine-grained discernment by practitioners and theorists in the future.