The Influence of Contexts on Vocabulary Testing

In vocabulary testing,whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic.In the article,an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing?And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects’performance?The experimental result demonstrates that sentence do play an important role in helping text-takers to figure out the correct meaning or target words.     

鲁迅晚期杂文的一种思维向度和言说方式

鲁迅晚期杂文与上海生活经验有很大关联,上海这个特定的文化空间,不但提供给鲁迅观察社会世相的一扇窗口,同时也影响着杂文创作的思维方式与言说策略。鲁迅晚期杂文往往在都市文化与租界体验的文化语境之中展开,解剖国民劣根性在租界社会的变异,批判沪上文人对金钱物质的依赖,挖掘知识分子流氓人格在洋场文化中的发酵与扩大。鲁迅还通过剪贴与备考的方式,缩微出一个真实的言论环境,使得晚期杂文具有一种对话感与互动性。     

Transnational Governances in Higher Education: New Universities,Rhetorics, and Networks in Postwar Singapore

At the close of World War II, Japan’s ouster from Malaya led to the resumption of British control and a new outlook toward political independence. Higher education would play a central role in this complex transition, where the forces of decolonization and nation-building converged with drives toward both interethnic competition and multiethnic cooperation. These tensions stimulated a multiplicity of new rhetorics and new networks for universities and university students. This paper uses the framework of governance to uncover the contrasting rhetorics and networks produced by postwar Singapore’s new universities. By examining their structures and mechanisms of governance, the paper demonstrates how the sudden catapulting of university education to a crucial socio-political position redefined the intersections between education, language, culture, and nation. In doing so, it reveals that these redefinitions forecasted contemporary discourse and mechanisms in higher education.     

双车动力学模型的数值模拟改进研究

选取双车动力学模型描述交通流,用一阶迎风格式和MHM格式寻求了相应的数值解,然后用改进的高阶MHCM差分格式得出相应的新的数值解,最后对不同的数值解进行分析比较.数值模拟结果表明,高阶修正MHCM格式耗散小、精度高,而且能更有效的描述交通流的冲击波和疏散波,效果较好.     

Developing web-based curricula: Issues and challenges

This study first offers a defence of the view that natural science has transcultural intellectual characteristics relevant to its educational purposes and examines those characteristics under their ontic, epistemic, and value‐related aspects. While the epistemic domain has been most prominent in relation to the science curriculum and its reform, it is the ontic stance of science that is its most distinctive characteristic. Science stands in an attenuated relationship to forms of human valuing, but curriculum reform has attempted to bring value‐related, and particularly ethical, matters into its remit. Science curriculum reform can be understood as an intellectual repositioning in relation to these three domains. This study relates this repositioning to the educational purposes of science, focusing particularly on a tension between liberal and instrumental purposes. Reform of the science curriculum is most coherently based on its distinctive ontic and epistemic characteristics, within a broader curricular framework.     

Investigating use continuance of data mining tools

While improving decisional quality is important to businesses, continued use of DMTs is a critical issue for managerial personnel. This problem mainly concerns the willingness of an individual to participate in the behavior. It can be further defined in a routine-based working behavior. This problem essentially involves three key issues, task fit, technology use, and habit. This study therefore integrates task-technology fit (TTF) model, expectation–confirmation mode (ECM), and habit, to examine the determinants of continued use of DMTs. Prior studies have focused on intention to use DMTs in the first time and only considered part of the three issues for identifying the determinants. 285 respondents from managerial personnel were collected to empirically evaluate this research model. The three issues are all important in influencing continuance use intention of DMTs. In particular, the task-technology fit indicates a direct effect on two factors of the technology use issue, user satisfaction and perceived usefulness, and an indirect effect on continuance use intention. User satisfaction and perceived usefulness, and habit are the key predictors of continuance use intention.     

创新人才培养模式研究

针对工程流体力学现有实验教学模式存在的弊端,提出了将基础教学实验、综合创新实验、科研创新实验相结合的实验教学模式,在实验教学过程中逐步加深学生对基础知识的理解与记忆,不断提高学生的综合分析能力、解决问题能力,并进一步培养学生的创新能力。     

少数民族汉语教学中的词语释义法

文章归纳并分析了少数民族汉语教学实践中积累的多种词语释义法及词语的释义类型选择,以期为汉语教学提供了可借鉴的新方法.     

Substitutive competition: Virtual pets as competitive buffers to alleviate possible negative influence on pupils

Although competition is regarded as a powerful motivator in game‐based learning, it might have a negative influence, such as damage to confidence, on students who lose the competition. In this paper, we propose an indirect approach, substitutive competition, to alleviate such negative influences. The approach is used to develop a My‐Pet v3 system, in which pupils master subject materials to make their pets stronger, and compete against each other. Specifically, pupils learn Chinese idioms in a pet‐training game scenario, and their mastery of the material is related to the pets' strength to win the competition. The result of the competition is influenced by whether pupils spend enough effort on the learning tasks. This intention is expected to alleviate the negative influence that results from direct competition. A within‐subject experiment was conducted to examine the influence of substitutive competition. The results indicated that substitutive competition seems a promising scheme to maximise the power of competition. However, there were no apparent evidences in this study to demonstrate its effect to alleviate pupils' sense of failure, as compared with other two direct competition conditions.