高校英语专业汉译英教学改革取向刍议

高校英专汉译英课程对培养学生英语应用和翻译能力有重要意义。教学改革应注重一个中心和两个基本点问题,即以发展学生翻译专业能力为中心,一个基本点是加强语言基本功训练,另一个基本点是加大机助翻译能力的培养。机助翻译能力培养将是未来汉译英教学改革发展趋势之一,而教学中语言和翻译基本功训练的重要性应得到充分认识和贯彻。     

书院讲学、自修与研究精神及其现实意义

书院是我国封建社会特有的教育组织形式,它在中国历史上延续了千余年,为我国古代教育的发展和学术的繁荣做出了巨大的贡献.古代书院的主体性教育以及学习主体的学以求己和研讨切磋的研究型的学习模式,灵活的、优良的讲学、自修、研究精神,对当今教育具有现实指导意义.     

Understanding bilingual education: an overview of key notions in the literature and the implications for Chinese university EFL education

This article starts with a review of definitions of bilingualism. It then discusses the definition of bilingual education with its focus on the analysis of bilingual competence. It is subsequently suggested that a theoretical hard nut to be cracked in today’s bilingual research is to establish the scope of discussion of bilingualism models meeting the specific needs in a specific context instead of simple acceptance of the current EFL teaching models learned from other countries or regions.     

Triangulation of language assessment modes: learning benefits and socio-cognitive prospects

An experimental design was adopted in the present study to cross-compare the effect of two formative assessments, namely peer assessment (PA) and teacher assessment (TA), with summative assessment (SA) on the improvement of language learners’ writing skill and self-efficacy. Writing excellence was operationalized by structural (grammar), lexical (word choice), and discoursal (cohesion and coherence) well-formedness. Furthermore, focused group interview was run to elicit the learners' attitudes and preferences toward type of assessment. Three cohorts of proficiency-matched language learners sat for a semester-long experimentation (20 sessions × 90 min = 30 h) and three testing sessions. The results revealed that PA group significantly improved in the writing skill, but TA and SA groups did not. Self-efficacy was not enhanced in any of the assessment groups under study. The interviews and follow-up member checkings indicated that the pupils did not have positive attitudes toward PA and preferred TA. Among the sources of this disfavor, they referred to misunderstanding, lack of knowledge or attention, tiredness, poor handwriting of the assesse, shyness, friendship bias, and even feeling not qualified enough to judge their peers’ tasks. Overall, then, the study reported a mismatch between the students’ actual performance and attitudinal beliefs under different assessment conditions, implying that (a) Iranian students are more inclined toward teacher-dominated pedagogies and (b) triangulation of assessment modes provides more reliable optimal results.     

Dealing with ‘fragile identities’: resistance and refiguring in women mathematics students

Many learners may be successful in mathematics but nevertheless see themselves as existing only on the margins of the practice, or as lacking stability in it – in this sense, they have what can be called a fragile identity. Although this kind of relationship with mathematics is not limited to girls and women, they do appear to express such fragile identities more often or more readily. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data from undergraduates in three English universities, this paper presents an analysis of the way in which university mathematics is differentially experienced by men and women, and of the part this may play in women’s ongoing narratives of self as mathematicians. It is suggested that some women resist traditional positionings in the mathematics world, drawing on local resources which enable a sense of agency as successful students and a refiguring of their relationships with mathematics.     

Investigating university tutor perceptions of assessment feedback: three types of tutor beliefs

Feedback is a key element in effective teaching and learning. The issue of how teachers perceive the role of feedback will impact significantly their feedback approaches, the amount of the detail of their feedback and the time and effort expended on the feedback provision. This research was designed with the purpose of exploring how a group of over 50 tutors who were supporting an online university English course perceived, understood and interpreted the processes of assignment feedback. A factor analysis study based on questionnaire data revealed three sets of tutor beliefs towards assessment and tutor feedback: traditional–autonomous–global (TAG), student‐centred (SC) and traditional‐local (TL). Follow‐up in‐depth interviews were conducted with tutors. The TAG tutors saw scores as the most important feedback to students, but doubted the value of detailed feedback. SC tutors maintained that good tutor feedback should offer more than mere scores, and that students needed feedback in order to improve. TL tutors tended to underline all the errors and provide detailed feedback. They were negative towards the idea of their feedback being monitored. The authors identified some differing and converging tutor perceptions on assessment feedback, the understanding of which could arguably play an important role in introducing changes in tutor feedback culture.     

Promoting intercultural understanding and reducing stereotypes: incorporating the cultural portfolio project into Taiwan's EFL college classes

Learning about foreign language (FL) cultures is becoming an important objective in the FL curricula and national standards of different countries throughout the world. The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the cultural portfolio project on: (1) students' concept development in their perceptions of the target language culture and their own; (2) students' evaluation of stereotypes towards English‐speaking cultures; and (3) students' self‐awareness and perception of EFL (English as a foreign language) and cultural learning process. Data were collected from students' cultural portfolio projects, classroom observation, and interviews. Results indicate that through the cultural portfolio project, students engaged in active learning, gained insight into specific aspects of the target language cultures and became more aware of the diversity within these cultures, and developed their ability to think critically instead of automatically accepting cultural information.     

外语教师公民意识现状分析与研究

一项关于福建省中学英语教师公民意识现状的研究表明：外语教师公民意识表现在其认识不清和知识不足,特别是其权责意识、民主意识和法律较为薄弱。外语教师普通公民意识薄弱的原因在于教师教育与公民意识教育没有相互兼容,即其知识基础和职前教育课程设置中缺乏公民意识教育的相关内容。     

学习型社会背景下成人终身学习模式探究

构建成人终身学习的学习型社会是我国全面建设小康社会的重要目标。学习型社会为成人学习者提供了一个良好的终身学习环境,促进了成人学习不断向全民化、终身化方向发展。通过成人学习者与普通学生不同的心理特征和学习特征的对比分析,结合终身学习的特点提出了成人终身学习的四个模式,即主动式学习模式、发现式学习模式、合作式学习模式、开放式学习模式。最后,在四个模式的基础上进行分析和探讨。