职业院校非汉语言文学类专业学生语文学习兴趣问卷分析

兴趣是学生学习的积极状态。影响高校非汉语言文学类专业学生语文学习兴趣的因素有工作、交际、环境、个人趣味等。正确分析不同专业学生语文学习兴趣成因,在广泛进行语文学习重要性教育的前提下,从教学内容选取、教学手段改进、语文课外活动序列化开展、教师语文素质与时俱进等方面着手,可以有效培养和提高学生的语文学习兴趣,进而提高高校非汉语言文学类专业语文教学的水平和效果。     

Effects of the inquiry-based mobile learning model on the cognitive load and learning achievement of students

The advancement of mobile device and wireless communication technologies is having a great influence on the design concept of learning activities. In this study, we attempt to integrate field study into the inquiry-based mobile learning model; moreover, a mobile learning environment that allows students to access both physical and virtual resources is developed accordingly. During the in-field learning activity, the mobile learning system is able to present the learning tasks, guide the students to visit the real-world learning targets for exploration, and provide them with supplementary materials via the mobile devices. The aim of this research focuses on the effects of this mobile learning model on students' cognitive load and learning achievements. The 51 sixth graders who participated in this research were assigned to an experimental and a control group. From the pre and posttests as well as the cognitive load questionnaire, it was found that the students who learned with the inquiry-based mobile learning approach had better learning achievement and less cognitive load than those who learned with the traditional approach. Therefore, it is concluded that the mobile learning model has positive effects on elementary students in local culture learning.     

社会人口结构与竞技体育关系研究

为了从数量上更加明确社会人口结构与竞技体育的关系，分别以我国6大区域（华北、东北、华东、中南、西南、西北）为具体研究对象，采用文献资料法、数理统计法、逻辑分析法，运用定量与定性相结合的分析手段，以人口的年龄结构、文化结构、职业结构、城乡结构、分布结构及发展结构为出发点，通过研究和揭示社会人口结构以直接或间接的形式作用于竞技体育事业，从而影响到我国体育事业的发展状况，明确社会人口结构与竞技体育在数量上的依存关系，以期为实现中国人口结构与竞技体育的协调发展提供理论参考。     

基于GIS技术的奥运会奖牌全球地域分布特征的比较

采用GIS技术与数理统计分析法,对第23～29届奥运会奖牌的全球地域分布特征进行比较分析.结果表明:美国、俄罗斯、德国、中国奥运会金、银、铜牌及奖牌总数占主导,各国间均存在非常显著性差异;美国在同场对抗性、体能主导类项目上所获奥运奖牌最多,中国在隔网对抗性、表现准确或难美性项目上具备最强竞争力,俄罗斯在格斗对抗性项目上的奥运奖牌最多,德国在水上项目与其他项目上的竞争力已领先世界诸国,体能主导类项目奥运奖牌的地域分布最广.全球6大洲奥运会金、银、铜牌及奖牌总数的分布特征均表现为欧洲＞北美洲＞亚洲＞大洋洲＞非洲＞南美洲.在同场对抗性、格斗对抗性、表现准确或难美性、体能主导类、水上和其他项目上,欧洲较其余5大洲占据比较明显的优势,亚洲仅在隔网对抗性项目上具备较强实力,北美洲各项目间的竞争力较为平衡,大洋洲与南美洲在各项目上的竞争力处于中下水平,非洲仅在体能主导类项目上具备一定竞争力.     

An innovative concept map approach for improving students' learning performance with an instant feedback mechanism

Concept maps have been widely employed for helping students organise their knowledge as well as evaluating their knowledge structures in a wide range of subject matters. Although researchers have recognised concept maps as being an important educational tool, past experiences have also revealed the difficulty of evaluating the correctness of a concept map. It usually takes days or weeks for teachers to manually evaluate the concept maps developed by students; consequently, the students cannot receive timely feedback from the teachers, which not only affects their learning schedules, but also significantly influences the students' learning achievements. In this paper, a computer‐based concept map‐oriented learning strategy with real‐time assessment and feedback is proposed in order to cope with the problems mentioned above. Our approach provides immediate evaluation of concept maps and gives also real‐time feedback to the students. An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this new strategy in comparison with the conventional computer‐based concept map approach. It is found that our innovative approach can be significantly beneficial to promote learning achievements as well as the learning attitudes of students.     

‘The best students will learn English’: ultra‐utilitarianism and linguistic imperialism in education in post‐1997 Hong Kong

In September 1997, shortly after China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong, the Education Department announced a policy which was widely seen as a restoration of 'mother‐tongue education', but which, in reality, was an elitist language selection policy. This policy, which provided for the selection of the best primary school graduates for monolingual education in English, was designed to be a cost‐effective way of training in English skills for those who had the economic and cultural capital to benefit from it. Meanwhile, the majority of students were barred from sufficient exposure to English, the language of power and wealth. In this paper, I shall show that this policy draws on a strong utilitarian discourse about the centrality of English for the economic survival of Hong Kong, which was engineered by business interests on the eve of the changeover in 1997, and which helped perpetuate a form of linguistic imperialism. Meanwhile, academics whose research was used to legitimize the policy, failed to problematize dominant language ideologies that have been used to justify pedagogically unsound practices and an inequitable language streaming policy. Through documenting the voices of individual educators, I am able to delineate counter‐discourses which, albeit weak and isolated, nevertheless manifested much broader educational concerns than the narrow utilitarianism and the unquestioned privileging of the learning of English skills that underlay the current policy.     

‘Weep for Chinese university’: a case study of English hegemony and academic capitalism in higher education in Hong Kong

In the spring of 2005, students and alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong staged an adamant protest against University directives which they perceived would result in a significant increase in the number of courses taught in English. They denounced the administration of selling out on the founding mission of the University, for which, as stated in its Ordinance, the principal medium of teaching would be Chinese. The University, on the other hand, defended its policy in the name of ‘internationalization’ and the need to stay ahead in the midst of severe competition at home and abroad. This paper examines this language controversy against the wider context of English hegemony and the rise of academic capitalism, two forces which are inextricably linked for the non‐Western societies in a post‐colonial era. I will try to show that the controversy was ultimately a struggle over the meaning of university education, between what I would call the instrumentalists and the humanists in this age of globalization. I end the paper with a pessimistic note, saying that it is the former who have gained an upper hand, and that the scope and parameters of the language debate are heavily restricted.     

III: Torn between Action and Reflection: some dilemmas of ‘pedagogical support persons’ in the Environment and School Initiatives Project

ABSTRACT

In 1990, a group of Slovenian researchers and teachers from eight elementary schools joined the international project Environment and School Initiatives, co‐ordinated by OECD/CERI. This paper presents some dilemmas and insights resulting from the co‐operation of ‘pedagogical support persons’ with teachers during the project, using the action research paradigm which presupposes a partnership relation and mutual learning of all involved. The paper has two parts. The first part deals with the rationale of educational support and with some dilemmas encountered, such as: What is action in action research on environmental education? How to help teachers develop initiative and self‐confidence in doing action research? (avoiding the trap of giving recipes, but also another trap of giving “freedom” where teachers needed genuine help and direct feed‐back on what they were doing). The second part is a case study of one of the Slovenian projects, illustrating the problematic nature of the relationship between action and reflection, between making others understand the underlying complexity of environmental problems and developing one's own deep understanding. The process of maturing and developing genuine communication is illustrated by quotations and interpretations from the perspective of all “three circles’: the pupil's, the teacher's and the support person's. to condemn, but not so easy to understand. I may illustrate this from my experience, but first I shall proceed with my interview.     

Pedagogy and human dignity – the Special Rank Teacher in China since 1978

Teachers in China are regarded as vulnerable to sociopolitical changes. This paper, however, focuses on the resilience and innovativeness of state‐selected expert teachers – the recipients of the Special Rank Teacher (SRT) award. This award was the product of a transitional period in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and was an act of rehabilitation for the teaching profession. Using a biographical approach, this paper analyses how the intentions of the award were reflected in the choice of recipients. It contributes to a deeper understanding of teachers in China and the notion of teaching excellence that the state‐recognised teachers exemplify.