Young primary students making sense of text and illustrations about how refuse can become soil

Explanatory pictures and models are frequently used in teaching and learning situations. However, it seems to be simply assumed that they are always beneficial. In this article results from an investigation with 16 Swedish pupils aged 7–9 year are presented based on an analysis that has examined how well this assumption holds up. Concepts from multi-modal theory have been used to investigate how young learners deal with illustrations and text from an early reader booklet about composting domestic refuse. The analysis suggests that expectations that illustrations facilitate the meaning-making of young pupils may be exaggerated. Although the booklet claimed to provide interactive support between image and text most of the examples show pupils ignoring pictures or misinterpreting vital information about composting in both the verbal and non-verbal material. The illustrations did not compensate for the most crucial deficiencies in the written text.     

我国投资基金市场体系的构建与完善

完善与发展我国投资基金市场,需要从系统性角度考虑,培育和构建具有中国特色的投资基金市场体系。本文从我国投资基金市场的发展定位着手,就构建中国特色投资基金市场体系应实现的目标、应具备的条件以及投资基金市场体系的框架结构、运行体系、监管体系、法规体系等进行了深入的研究。