产训结合的方方面面

本文是国际劳工组织亚太分局高级职业培训专家麦尔南多先生在今年9月召开的产训结合国际研讨会发言摘要。     

Developing POPTRAN,a population modelling package

Collaboration between subject matter specialists, computer programmers and educational technologists has resulted in the production of POPTRAN, a computer assisted learning package designed to teach the basic concepts of population studies. Its evaluation in developing countries, with both naive and specialist users, and subsequent revision, has produced a package of both academic quality and teaching effectiveness.     

关于理科教育的一种理论根据

关于理科教育的任何一种合理的理论根据必须包括教育目的、学科和一种学习的模型。 教育目的 关于学校应达到的目的,曾是许多论文的主题,但它们中间存在着争论和分歧。对这些争论本文将不涉及,但有一个是例外;这个例外就是美国教育政策委员会1961年报告书中扼要陈述的,即认为教育的中心目的是教学生思维。这一任务在该委员会的“美国教育的中心目的”论文中详细地阐述如下:     

Vocabulary Use by Low, Moderate, and High ASL-Proficient Writers Compared to Hearing ESL and Monolingual Speakers

The written English vocabulary of 72 deaf elementary school students of various proficiency levels in American Sign Language (ASL) was compared with the performance of 60 hearing English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers and 61 hearing monolingual speakers of English, all of similar age. Students were asked to retell The Tortoise and the Hare story (previously viewed on video) in a writing activity. Writing samples were later scored for total number of words, use of words known to be highly frequent in children's writing, redundancy in writing, and use of English function words. All deaf writers showed significantly lower use of function words as compared to their hearing peers. Low-ASL-proficient students demonstrated a highly formulaic writing style, drawing mostly on high-frequency words and repetitive use of a limited range of function words. The moderate- and high-ASL-proficient deaf students' writing was not formulaic and incorporated novel, low-frequency vocabulary to communicate their thoughts. The moderate- and high-ASL students' performance revealed a departure from findings one might expect based on previous studies with deaf writers and their vocabulary use. The writing of the deaf writers also differed from the writing of hearing ESL speakers. Implications for deaf education and literacy instruction are discussed, with special attention to the fact that ASL-proficient, deaf second-language learners of English may be approaching English vocabulary acquisition in ways that are different from hearing ESL learners.     

选对镜架“眼镜妹”也有春天

没有哪个女孩子不爱美,但是戴眼镜的女孩,如果不注重眼镜的选择,就有可能从"白天鹅"变成"丑小鸭"。其实,只要学会镜架的时尚搭配秘籍,"眼镜妹"也会迎来自己的美丽蜕变!(友情提示:以下小贴士还能用在挑选太阳镜的款式上。)     

英国文学的新时代

《当代文学简介》是布斯在云南大学的讲稿,这里选译了其中的第一讲:“英国文学的新时代”和第十二讲:“威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆。”第一讲是英国当代文学概述,以后各讲均为作家评介,今后将继续选译部分作家评介。