Digital Booktalk: Creating a Community of Avid Readers,One Video at a Time

In this article the author presents a meta-analysis of the findings from several studies conducted over multiple years with various types of learners that investigated exemplar/signature pedagogical practices incorporating video to motivate otherwise reluctant and struggling learners. Noting that newer technologies are making today's learners less dependent on text-based media to express themselves and to acquire knowledge, this author discovered that selecting appropriate video-based deliverables can play a significant role in affecting student motivation and outcomes. Assessing learning in this way is, in this author's opinion, at the core of signature pedagogy.     

全民阅读现状及公共图书馆推进全民阅读的措施探讨

阅读对于芸芸众生,是一种生活的组成。无论是知识的获取,还是道德的完善,始终离不开阅读。本文通过对我国全民阅读现状的分析,找到了全民阅读率走低的原因,提出了图书馆作为人类阅读活动的基本场所,应在倡导全民阅读、推进全民阅读方面肩负起重任,以推动全民阅读的发展。     

小说语言与当代小说传播

新时期之前的小说以工农兵为传播对象,作家以工农兵语言进行书写和言说,其语言主要表现为口语化。＂文革＂时期,由于意识形态的强势作用,大量领袖语言直接嵌入小说文本。新时期小说以思想文化启蒙为传播目标,出现了饱含情感色彩的人道主义语言和人文理性语言。自90年代以来,文化消费成为小说传播主要动力,作家根据读者的趣味选择小说语言使小说语言呈现出调侃性、时尚化和感官化的特征。各时期小说语言的根本差异表明作家与读者之间的关系也在随时变化。当下如何调整作家与读者的关系,通过语言变革既保持小说的良好传播,又避免让小说沦为仅仅是娱乐工具,是目前作家和学者共同面对的问题。     

Reading at the front: books and soldiers in the First World War

Abstract

This paper focuses on the reading and educational practices of common soldiers during the First World War. It argues that the question of how war libraries were imagined and constructed by civilians needs to be framed in the larger context of pre-war Edwardian debates surrounding the “value of books” in society. Indeed, it was within this debate that “humanities activists” first sought to play a role in times of crisis, confident that the war library operation had the blessing of prominent authors. The paper analyses the experience of British self-improvers at the front, their enduring connections with adult education institutions at home and the opportunities that the war opened up to new Australasian common readers fighting as part of the colonial expeditionary forces.     

浅谈图书馆员如何做好服务工作

读者服务工作是图书馆服务性的具体体现。作为“软件”的服务,本文试图从性格、视线、礼貌用语等一些具体细节进行阐述,希望在做好读者服务工作方面,起到一些帮助。     

Asking the Readers

Alternative forms of journalism are said to challenge the passive role of audience members as receivers and to foster active citizenship among alternative journalists and audiences. Yet the scholarly literature on alternative journalism contains more assertions about than evidence from the audience. Downing has described the audience for alternative media as “the virtually unknown”, prompting him to urge journalism scholars to undertake more audience research to help increase our understanding of this allegedly active and civic-minded public. This exploratory study of the people who regularly read a contemporary example of alternative journalism—an investigative local blog covering one UK city—is intended to contribute towards filling the gap identified by Downing. Audience views are explored by means of questionnaires and focus groups, providing some evidence that individuals are attracted to alternative journalism by their dissatisfaction with mainstream media; that they see alternative media as helping them make sense of the world; and that, to an extent, engaging with such media is both a prompt to, and a reflection of, readers’ democratic engagement as citizens. Recognising the limitations of this small study, the article concludes by reiterating Downing's call for further research.     

以读者为中心的外语写作教学模式

外语教学中的准确性是传统写作教学的重点,而教师为达到真正的写作目的,又不能忽视写作的交流功能。教师指导初、中级学生作者从读者角度,而非语言角度参与到真实的写作交流中。教师可通过体裁教学对学生进行写作思维的培养,利用多媒体教学活动和多元组合对学生的写作能力进行恰当评估,使二语写作能寓教于乐。     

数字图书馆时代的读者教育探索

通过比较数字图书馆与传统图书馆异同,探讨了数字图书馆时代读者教育的必要性及方式。     

图书馆阅览环境与读者心理

图书馆阅览环境的好坏与读者情绪息息相关。创造一个色彩柔和、装饰文雅、环境优美、真诚关怀的人文环境和幽静艺术的阅览氛围，对于愉悦读者心灵情感促进知识吸收和创造有重要作用。