浅论语篇分析理论在大学英语阅读教学中的应用

本文分析了大学英语阅读教学的重要性及其现状,简单介绍了语篇分析理论的含义,认为该理论可以在英语教学中得到广泛应用,可以用来指导阅读教学,提供新的教学模式。本文探讨了语篇分析理论在英语阅读教学中的应用模式和策略,着重讨论了语篇的衔接手段、语境分析和结构分析模式的应用,试图以语篇分析为理论基础,改进阅读教学的思想和方法。     

充分利用多媒体资源优化英语阅读课教学

随着科学技术的迅猛发展,多媒体计算机辅助教学迅速走进大学英语课堂,在科学化、现代化的网络环境中,英语阅读课教学技术和教学手段应突破传统模式的不足,形成新的教学模式,充分利用网络资源,大大提高英语阅读课的效率。     

社会逻辑价值取向的图书馆学话语体系的建构

图书馆学话语体系构建的主要脉搏和走向体现出两类价值取向:学科逻辑与社会逻辑。比较两者得知,前者旨在保证所构建的图书馆学话语体系的合法性,但不能作为最大价值取向。在当今学术命运共同体时代,后者旨在探寻实践归宿,具有实践意义,相关问题研究成为图书馆学界着力研究的新课题。近年,有许多公信力强的图书馆学研究成果在以《新华文摘》《光明日报》为代表的学术主流媒体上"出场",成为基于社会逻辑的图书馆学话语体系构建的标识性学术产物。考察这些"榜样"的"出场史",深入探索其与时俱进的逻辑,我们得到基于社会逻辑价值取向的图书馆学话语体系建构应发扬光大的实现路径:注重固有"基因"的新时代表述;注重关键词的提炼和标示性符号的构建。分析不足后得到启示,基于社会逻辑的图书馆学话语体系建构的可行与强化路径为,加强主体意识,倾听社会有关图书馆事业的声音,努力把学术话语转化成政策话语。     

Effects of two types of task instructions on literary text comprehension and motivational and affective factors

This experimental study investigated the effects of two types of task instructions on text comprehension, motivation, and emotional involvement. In all, 226 9th graders in low academic tracks were randomly assigned to complete reader-oriented (RO), text-based (TB), or no tasks after reading literary texts to elaborate their mental text representation. Whereas RO tasks encouraged emotional engagement and indirectly stimulated text analysis through creative activities, TB tasks focused on cognitive activity and directly encouraged text analysis. After students completed the tasks, they answered test items on content- and form-related text comprehension. The results indicate that form-related comprehension improved when students elaborated their mental text representation through TB tasks. By contrast, RO students were more interested in the tasks, and they showed slightly more emotional involvement. As the two types of task instructions seemingly have different effects, they may be considered complementary elements in instructional practices for lower academic tracks.     

The longitudinal effect of morphological awareness on higher-order literacy skills among college L2 learners

The utilities of morphological awareness in first language (L1) literacy acquisition have been well documented. College second language (L2) learners with the need to enhance higher-level language and literacy competencies are of particular interest to literacy research. Therefore, this study reports on a longitudinal study that examines the multilayered relationship between morphological awareness and higher-order literacy skills (reading comprehension and written composition) among college-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. One hundred and twenty-one freshman students participated in this study. They finished reading vocabulary and four morphological awareness measurements including morpheme-form knowledge, morpheme-meaning knowledge, morpheme recognition ability and morpheme discrimination ability at the beginning of their college study. Moreover, they were required to complete reading and writing assessments at two additional time points over one academic year. Drawing upon multivariate analyses, the results showed that initial morphological awareness predicted later reading comprehension ability over the course of one academic year after controlling for reading vocabulary knowledge and the autoregressive effect. Although morphological awareness did not have a significant longitudinal effect on written composition after reading vocabulary knowledge and the autoregressive effect were accounted for, the results did exhibit the increasing robustness of the relationship between morphological awareness and written composition across time. In addition, the results verified the significant and longitudinal effect of explicit morphological knowledge (morpheme-form and morpheme-meaning knowledge) on higher-order literacy skills. The current study substantiated that morphological awareness had positive longitudinal relationships with higher-order literacy skills among EFL students. Implications centered on the utilities of morphological awareness components in higher-order literacy acquisition, the operationalization of written composition, and the uniqueness of second/foreign language literacy acquisition.     

提高非英语专业大学生阅读效率的策略

阅读在外语学习和教学中占有很重要的地位。然而，有效的阅读策略的缺乏是阻碍非英语专业大学生阅读能力发展的主要因素。因此。本文针对学生在英语阅读学习中出现的诸多问题，分析相关原因，并提出一些能提高学生阅读效率的策略。     

Integrating self-paced mobile learning into language instruction: impact on reading comprehension and learner satisfaction

The study integrated self-paced mobile learning (m-learning) into a language course, and examined what impacts were being produced on learners’ reading comprehension and student satisfaction resulting from the instruction with m-learning integration. The self-paced, learner-centered mobile learning integration instruction (MLI) was compared with group-oriented, teacher-centered instruction without m-learning integration. Six classes of students from three different departments participated in the study. One class from each department received MLI, while the other class from each department was involved in traditional learning instruction (TLI). Evaluation of the instruction was based upon data from the post-treatment reading test and one questionnaire related to learner satisfaction. The results revealed that the learners exposing to the MLI scored higher in the test than those with TLI, and they showed great satisfaction with the instruction integrating m-learning. Particularly, the students from the Department of Information Management receiving instruction supported by mobile technologies performed best in the reading test and gained the highest score on the satisfaction questionnaire.     

How Well Performance in Curriculum-based Tests Predicts that in Life-based Tests: A Study of 12th-grade Students Learning Chinese Language

A sample of 209 secondary (12th grade) students were tested for their knowledge of Chinese characters, words, and idioms as specified in a Chinese Language syllabus. The students also took comprehension tests in the form of cloze tests based on passages selected from Chinese newspapers and literary works, covering occupations, social events, sports, leisure pursuits and international news. Although performance in curriculum-based tests was satisfactory, the students were found to have difficulty comprehending life-based reading materials. Probable causes for the lack of consistency between performances in the tests using different reading materials are discussed.     

Adjacency,animacy, and intensionality as cues to oral and written sentence comprehension

Subjects of verbs in English sentences may be indicated by any one of a number of cues. In some cases, the subject of the verb is determined by semantic constraints, as when the verb requires an animate noun phrase as subject; in other cases the subject is determined by syntactic factors, as in the case of third person singular verb markers; and, as is commonly the case in informal language, the most immediately preceding noun phrase is the subject of the verb. These three types of cues, semantic (here described as extensional), syntactic (here labeled intensional), and adjacency are investigated in a series of tests of sentence comprehension using university undergraduates as subjects.The results of these experiments show that when the adjacency strategy does not apply, even these highly literate native speakers have great difficulty in correctly comprehending subject-verb correspondences.These results are discussed in the context of the relationship between intensional linguistic processing and literacy.     

Metacognition,comprehension monitoring,and the adult reader

This article provides an overview and synthesis of the current literature on metacognition and comprehension monitoring among adult readers. It is organized around three major research questions: (1) How do adults conceptualize their own comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities? (2) How effectively do adults evaluate and regulate their ongoing efforts to understand? (3) How successfully do adults assess the final products of their comprehension efforts? Cutting across these broad issues are questions concerning metacognitive differences as a function of reading ability, academic success, domain expertise, developmental level, and task variables. The research reveals that adults' conceptions of how they comprehend and how they monitor their comprehension are quite variable. In general, those who have more expertise, who are better readers, and who are more successful students seem to have greater awareness and control of their own cognitive activities while reading. The research also reveals that adults evaluate and regulate their ongoing efforts to understand, although there is considerable room for improvement in these skills. Finally, the research shows that adults are remarkably unsuccessful at assessing how well they have comprehended a text and whether or not they are ready to take a test on the material. The article closes with a discussion of recent intervention efforts aimed at enhancing the metacognitive skills of adult readers.