Enriching the Scholarship of Teaching: Determining Appropriate Cross-Professional Applications Among Teaching, Counseling, and Psychotherapy

When teaching is construed as facilitating learning rather than imparting knowledge, it becomes an educational helping relationship. In this light, teaching can be understood to share important characteristics with other helping professions, such as counseling and psychotherapy. As teaching is further conceptualized within this paradigm, confusion can develop regarding appropriate applications of concepts from related helping professions to teaching contexts. This article introduces and illustrates an appropriateness criterion that attempts to remove this confusion and thereby facilitate important cross-professional collaborations and further conceptual development of the teaching-as-helping paradigm.     

外语教师课堂观察活动的现状调查

文章通过问卷调查的形式对陕西省部分中学、大学英语教师的课堂观察（听课、评课）现状进行了调查，分析了存在的问题及其原因并报告了调查结果。     

Helping Taiwanese Graduate Students Help Themselves: Applying Corpora to Industrial Management English as a Foreign Language Academic Reading and Writing

Lack of knowledge in the conventional use of vocabulary and multiword patterns in one's respective field of expertise causes Taiwanese students to produce academic writing that is markedly “non-nativelike.” This is because Taiwanese students are first and foremost second language readers and often have difficulty “picking up on” the regularly encountered language patterns found in scholarly texts. As one step in determining a solution to this problem, this article reports on a pilot implementation encouraging graduate Taiwanese students for whom English is a foreign language to use self-editing techniques in their own field-specific academic writing by use of a corpus tool. Classroom interviews, draft comparisons, and individual stimulated recall interviews showed a difference in acceptance and success after using the corpus tool (StringNet Navigator) as an aid to self-editing academic English writing. The corpus tool's functions, results of its use by industrial management graduate students for self-editing academic writing, and pedagogical implications are described.     

对比修辞研究在外语写作教学中的启示作用

第二语言写作被认为在一定程度上受作者母语的语言及传统文化的影响,从而影响作者语篇的组织。从对比修辞学研究的历史入手,通过探讨对比修辞研究在汉语方面的研究,可以分析汉语和英语在语句及语篇上的差异,以及它们之间的关系,进而了解这一领域的研究对外语写作教学具有重要的启示作用。     

Effects of learner–instructor relationship-building strategies in online video instruction

Although research has demonstrated that an increased rapport between instructors and learners can positively relate with increased learning gains, perhaps mediated by the positive attitudes toward the course and self-efficacy beliefs in the coursework, little has been done to test what instructional strategies might increase this rapport in online video-based instruction. This study compared online video-based instruction that made use of relationship-building strategies with online video-based instruction that did not use those strategies. The two instructions were identical in every other way. The results show that the attitudes of the college students were positively affected by the relationship building strategies in a statistically significant way (p = .025) and that learning gains were also positively affected at a very near-significant level (p = .052). The implications of the findings are discussed.     

网络学习社区中学习者的社会行为及其影响的教学论阐释

网络学习社区是与学校教育与课堂教学相区别的另一种教育社会和教学时空,从教学社会学的视角来诠释网络社区中学习者行为的社会性及其对网络教育的影响是非常重要的研究范式。学习者通过最常见的6组基本行为建构着网络学习社区中的知识与情境,这些基本行为既是社区学习者从个体行为演绎成从众活动和学习懈怠等群体行为的基本途径,也是实现学习者之间竞争与合作交互行为、师生之间控制与服从交互行为的基本途径。上述学习者社会行为是网络中教育主体的社会关系与教学活动的主要呈现方式,设计与把握学习者的这些社会行为是网络教育绩效提升的关键,很值得网络教育管理者重视。     

背诵课文对学习英语的促进作用

本文着重从三个方面分析强调背诵课文与英语学习的关系。首先解析新课标背景下背诵英语课文与传统的背诵课文的区别：其次介绍英语课文背诵的方法：最后得出背诵课文对英语学习的促进作用。     

Finding Time: Practical Time Management for Out-of-Classroom Educators

This study assesses the validity and reliability of the Learning Styles Preference Indicator (LSPI), an instrument developed by the author. The LSPI identifies students' preferences for analytical or global approaches to learning new and difficult material. This instrument is easy to administer, quick to score, and produces information that will help teachers understand the way their students process information. By using information from the LSPI, teachers can design more appropriate learning strategies for the benefit of each student. This article reports reliability and validity correlation scores for elementary through adult students.     

英语专业研究生学习自主性的实证研究

近年来,国内外对"自主学习"有较多关注,鲜见关于英语专业研究生层面的论述。为此,将问卷调查和课堂观察相结合,对英语专业研究生学习自主性进行了定性和定量研究。结果表明:英语专业研究生使用元认知策略频率最高,其次是社交策略,情感策略使用频率最低;自主学习策略的运用与学术能力呈正相关;学生在自主学习中,普遍缺乏思辨性和创新性,一定程度上影响了学生的学术能力。最后从学生、学生之间、导师与教师三个方面提出了相应的建议。     

Understanding autonomous peer feedback practices among postgraduate students: a case study in a Chinese university

Academic writing is a social practice in which the writer interacts with both texts and people and uses the interaction as a learning resource. While academic interaction in the classroom setting has been extensively investigated, student interaction that takes place without teacher supervision remains largely unexplored. Since autonomy is a key component of academic interaction, autonomous peer feedback practices among postgraduate students may be of some interest. This paper reports on an exploratory case study of peer feedback among a small group of postgraduate students in a master’s programme in translation studies in a prestigious Chinese university. The findings offer insights into the role of peer feedback in advancing academic literacy and forming scholarly communities in an emerging discipline. The case study provides an opening into the research area of autonomous peer feedback and suggests avenues for further, more substantial research.