The role of nonspeech rhythm in Spanish word reading

Recent literacy research shows an increasing interest in the influence of prosody on literacy acquisition. The current study examines the relationship of nonspeech rhythmic skills to children's reading acquisition, and their possible relation to stress assignment in Spanish, a syllable‐timed language. Sixty‐six third graders with no reading difficulties were scored on measures of nonspeech rhythm, word‐level decoding skill, reading fluency and reading with correct assignment of lexical stress. After controlling for verbal intelligence and working memory, hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that nonspeech rhythm predicted unique variance in reading fluency and correct stress assignment; it did not predict decoding skills. Given that Spanish is a syllable‐timed as opposed to stress‐timed language like English, the association between nonspeech rhythm, reading fluency and stress assignment found in our study suggests that nonspeech rhythm may be a universal factor in reading acquisition, independent of the type of linguistic rhythm.     

新时代的批判媒介和文化研究

本文从历史的角度分析了批评性媒介素养在不同历史阶段的关注重点,并辅以事例着重阐释了如何利用分析方法使批判性素养的理论与实践相结合,从而提高学生的批判性媒介素养,特别是随着多种新媒体的出现,更需要在文化研究的关照下关注新的媒介素养问题。     

Gallery Education

This paper takes the form of a conversation about gallery education between Carmen Moersch and myself Mariam Sharp. It will draw from in‐depth research by Moersch who is currently undertaking a PhD comparing Gallery Education in Germany and England and considers the differences in England and Germany and to some extent Europe generally. The article touches on Carmen's role as an artist and relates to the role of the artist in socially engaged arts practices. In England outreach practices extend the work beyond the gallery and Moersch's research explores case studies in the UK that develop these models of working. The conversation started at the Engage conference at the Baltic in Newcastle in November 2002 and continued into early 2003 via email and was informed by my experience as the lead officer for gallery education at the Arts Council of England's National Office.     

Textbook adoption and other landmark decisions: The coverage of court cases in criminal justice textbooks, 1986 to 1995

We examine the coverage of court cases in 23 introductory criminal justice textbooks published from 1986 to 1995. The 30 cases receiving the most coverage (in inches of print) in the textbooks are identified and ranked by the amount of attention each receives. Collectively these cases can be considered the “landmark” decisions in the textbooks. We then evaluate the criminal justice textbooks by how extensively they cover (1) court cases in general and (2) the landmark cases in particular. We conclude with some recommendations of textbooks for course adoption.     

Journals in criminal justice and criminology: An updated and expanded guide for authors

This article provides an annotated list of 326 journals in criminal justice and criminology. After consulting the “notes for contributors” sections of each journal, the authors mailed a self-administered survey to all journal editors soliciting their input on their editorial policies. Journal websites were also consulted to construct the journals' mission, scope, and editorial focus. A total of 221 editors returned the survey for a return rate of 68%. The following entries present an annotation that summarizes the mission, philosophy, and editorial policies of each journal. Following the annotations, the chart documents contact information for the editors and editorial policies concerning submissions to each journal.     

Sobre la didáctica del texto expositivo. Algunas propuestas para la clase de lengua

La omnipresencia del texto expositivo en el ámbito escolar, tanto en el discurso del profesor como en el de los alumnos, constituye una razón importante para que pase a ser objeto de enseñanza y aprendizaje en la clase de lengua, no como información «sobre» la exposición ni como simple adiestramiento práctico, sino como trabajo de análisis y producción de textos. Ante las frecuentes quejas sobre la pobreza de vocabulario de los alumnos, la falta de orden en la expresión de sus ideas y, en general, sobre su poca destreza en la exposición oral y escrita, conviene señalar que estas habilidades que echamos de menos en nuestros alumnos se pueden enseñar y, si no se enseñan, no debe extrañarnos que no se aprendan. Las autoras de este trabajo pretenden llamar la atención sobre la importacia y las posibilidades del texto expositivo para la clase de lengua en la enseñanza secundaria.     

The longitudinal effect of the Aprender a Convivir (learning to live together) programme in childhood: the development of social competence / Efecto longitudinal del programa Aprender a Convivir en la infancia: desarrollo de la competencia social

Abstract

In the context of a changing society, strategies are required to eradicate the phenomenon of antisocial behaviour. The Aprender a Convivir universal prevention programme tries to provide such a response. This study attempts to test the effectiveness of the programme through a quasi-experimental long-term study carried out over three years in some nursery schools. Of the students who participated in this study (N = 784), those from the experimental group showed significant increases in social competence compared to the control group, and behavioural problems decreased, albeit not in any significant way. To draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the programme, further improvements are proposed to the design of the study.     

Cognición,contexto y enseñanza de las matemáticas

El 57 por ciento de los niños españoles no alcanzan los conocimientos matemáticos escolarmente exigidos y no parecen contar con una alfabetización matemática funcional mínima para desenvolverse en la matemizada vida cotidiana del futuro. Este artículo se propone una vía para alcanzar una enseñanza matemática funcionalmente válida tendiendo un puente entre los conocimientos matemáticos que el niño construye a través de las actividades de su vida extraescolar y el conocimiento matemático racional y descontextualizado que caracteriza las actividades de instrucción formal.