Component skills of text comprehension in less competent Chinese comprehenders

The present study examined the role of verbal working memory (memory span and tongue-twister), two-character Chinese pseudoword reading (two tasks), rapid automatized naming (RAN) (letters and numbers), and phonological segmentation (deletion of rimes and onsets) in inferential text comprehension in Chinese in 31 less competent comprehenders compared with 37 reading comprehension control students and 23 chronological age controls. It was hypothesized that the target students would perform poorly on these cognitive and linguistic tasks as compared with their controls. Furthermore, verbal working memory and pseudoword reading would explain a considerable amount of individual variation in Chinese text comprehension. RAN would have a nonsignificant role in text comprehension. Structural equation analyses and hierarchical multiple regression analyses generally upheld these hypotheses. Our findings support current literature of the role of verbal working memory in reading comprehension found in English. The results, however, suggest differential role of the constructs and the tasks in reading comprehension and provide some answers for comprehension impairment in Chinese students.     

Intermarriage and imperial subject formation in colonial Taiwan: Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin

Abstract

In this article, I analyze the political significance of Shōji Sōichi's Chin-fujin (The wife of Mr. Chen), an intricate story of an interracial family in colonial Taiwan struggling to come to terms with their cultural identifications against the backdrop of political upheavals in the late 1910s to the mid-1930s. The novel was well received in wartime Japan and received a 1943 Greater East Asia Literary Prize. Contemporary critics praised it for depicting the perseverance of a Japanese woman married into a Taiwanese family and for representing a Han-Taiwanese intellectual realistically. Yet it was the political effect of the novel that was appreciated by those who selected it for the prize. Shōji demonstrated how the policy and political discourse of the Japanese empire could be acted out in a site of family life, the site that was regarded as critically important for colonial control. He depicted a Taiwanese elite man, his Japanese wife, and their mixed-blood daughter as trying to transcend the old categorical distinction between metropolitan Japanese and natives of Taiwan and seeking a new unified identity position based on colonial Taiwan. I want to show the repressive nature of the national subject formation outlined in this colonial fantasy.     

中国当代文学传播的两难选择——对文学作品研讨会的考察

中国当代文学传播目前面临一种两难选择,即客观上迫切需要传播媒体的介入,但主观上又对最时新的网络媒体采取一种"半推半就"的态度;按照文学的审美性质,文学作品最忌讳功利性的行为,但市场经济对文学的冲击又使文学不得不"低声下气"。     

Teacher change beliefs: validating a scale with structural equation modelling

The objectives of the study were to validate a substantiated Teacher Change Beliefs Model (TCBM) and an instrument to identify critical components of teacher change beliefs (TCB) in Malaysian secondary schools. Five different pilot test approaches were applied to ensure the validity and reliability of the instrument. A total of 936 teachers from 47 high-performing secondary schools completed the survey. Structural equation modelling was applied to test the models. Exploratory factor analysis was employed to identify the underlying factors, whereas confirmatory factor analysis was applied to test the measurement models. The analysis yielded a three-factor TCBM: (1) discrepancy, (2) efficacy and (3) principal support. The results demonstrated a good fit of the model: normed χ² = 3.156, Tucker-Lewis Fix Index = .987, Comparative Fix Index = .991 and Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = .048. The results also provided evidence for convergent validity, discriminant validity and construct reliability. The TCBM is an empirically tested model derived in a local Malaysian cultural education setting. It provides direction for practitioners in planning and designing training programmes of change management for school principals in the enhancement of TCB among teachers in schools. Besides, Teacher Change Beliefs Scale is a promising and welcome tool for both practitioners and researchers. With only nine items, it is easy to administer and not time-consuming.     

论创新是竞技教练员的核心素质

跨入21世纪的竞技教练员应具备良好的高素质结构，其中最为突出的核心素质就是创新。创新是提高运动训练水平的主动力，教练员应具有突出的预见性创造性思维能力，创造性地运用组合知识的能力，训练方法与手段的创新能力，新颖高效的管理方法的创造能力。培养教练员创新能力的方法有：破旧立新法、克弱转强法、克弱转强法、反向思维法和移接法。     

全国U—17足球队构成解析

通过对参加 2 0 0 0年全国U— 17少年足球队春训的 2 3支球队的调查 ,获取了宝贵的第一手资料。从球队属性、组队目的、经费来源、年度经费、队员收入、训练形式等方面对U— 17球队的构成情况进行了较为全面的解析 ,为我们了解、认识、思考我国足球后备力量梯队建设问题提供了较为详实的参考依据     

我国女子链球运动水平现状分析与对策思考

文章通过对我国女子链球的运动成绩与发展趋势进行研究,并与世界优秀选手对比分析,提出今后的一些发展对策,旨在认真总结经验,找出差距,为我国女子链球运动成绩的提高提供依据。     

中国体育60年发展的历程和基本经验

在研究探索体育发展规律和总结经验同时,为丰富和深化体育理论研究,完善和改革新型体育发展战略提供理论建议和决策依据,并在实践中澄清因为认识程度而导致的混乱现象,为不断提高人们的体育意识及拥有健康生活的能力,变不和谐因素为和谐因素,使整个社会体育的全面发展始终处于一种健康、良好的实施状态,并能为社会主义现代化事业的长远目标提供既协调稳定、又充满活力的体育环境。     

基于科技与人文融合的数字文化治理体系建设研究

[目的/意义] 数字文化资源成为大数据时代最重要、最基础的战略性资源之一,被赋予了新的价值和新的应用需求,为了解决数字文化资源开发和应用中的问题,提出了基于科技与人文融合的数字文化治理体系的建设。[方法/过程] 通过界定数字文化治理的内涵,分析数字文化治理的必要性,明确数字文化治理过程,从治理主体层面、数据层面、治理机制层面和治理技术层面4个层面架构了数字文化治理参考框架。[结果/结论] 并从数字文化治理机制保障,多元主体需求保障和治理质量保障3个角度出发,提出了数字文化治理的策略,为数字文化资源的创新性开发和价值创造提供借鉴。     

中学"青春的活力"广播体操特点剖析

采用文献资料、动作观察、逻辑分析等研究方法 ,剖析中学生广播体操“青春的活力”在音乐、动作、编排等方面的特点 ,旨在推动中学广播体操的深入开展。