粤方言对英语语音习得的迁移

迁移是头脑里原有知识对新的学习的影响.在语言学习过程中,第一语言对第二语言学习产生影响的现象就是语言迁移.促进新语言学习的迁移为正迁移,阻碍新语言学习的为负迁移.粤方言与英语在发音上差别很大,给使用粤方言的人在英语语音习得上造成困难.通过对粤方言与英语语言在语音方面进行对比,就可以找出迁移的因素,也能尽量减少粤方言对英语语音习得的负迁移作用.     

新疆少数民族地区普通高中课改实施中英语教师适应状况调查及专业能力提高对策研究

文章对2009年新疆少数民族地区普通高中教师的适应状况进行了调研,对新疆普通高中英语教师在课改实施中遇到的问题进行统计分析,并提出应对方案.     

Double Jeopardy: Testing the Effects of Multiple Basic Skill Deficiencies on Successful Remediation

Prior research has established that the depth and breadth of remedial need in basic skills (math and English) exhibited by a student at college entry are strongly and negatively associated with the likelihood of achieving college-level competency in those subjects (i.e., successful remediation). This well-documented finding is built upon a body of work employing either simple bivariate analyses or regression analyses that assume additive effects. Yet, there are reasons to suspect that multiple basic skill deficiencies, rather than exhibiting additive effects alone, may exhibit a negative multiplicative interaction effect on the likelihood of successful remediation. In this research, I test the hypothesis that the negative effect of math deficiency increases in magnitude with decreasing English competency. Although the data support this hypothesis, I find that this interaction does not have substantive importance in the face of the powerful direct effect of math deficiency on the likelihood of successful remediation in math. Direct all correspondence to the author at the Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 (peter.bahr@wayne.edu). I am indebted to Tim Brown, Willard Hom, Myrna Huffman, Tom Nobert, Mary Kay Patton, and Patrick Perry of the Chancellor’s Office of California Community Colleges for their assistance with the data employed in this study, and to Dr. John C. Smart and the anonymous referees of Research in Higher Education for their recommendations concerning improving this work.     

In Living Memory: The Dying Art of Learning Poetry and a Case for Revival

This article considers the practice of learning poems and the value of poetry in the memory, and emerges from the Cambridge Poetry Teaching Project, a small-scale research study co-ordinated through the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Drawing on the subset of findings in relation to learning and memory, the essay locates the practice within broader cultural and educational contexts and examines it in relation to some theories of memory and cognition, especially the work of Iain McGilchrist on the divided brain, and to personal experience. The article argues that there is a largely forgotten value in learning poetry and posits five ways in which it may contribute both to our experience and understanding of the poem and to our engagement with the world. Finally, the author considers the learning process itself and suggests a strategy in accordance with the proposed theorisation.     

殖民文化语境与印度英语小说的兴起

英国在进入印度后，推广英语，开办学校，英国殖民政府也有意识地扶植英语教育，这些都对印度英语小说的产生起到了一定程度的推动作用。英文报刊和杂志的发行量日益增多，印度本国的知识分子开始阅读并学习西方小说的创作手法和技巧，到19世纪中叶，印度英语小说家开始登上了印度文坛。     

Collaboration to teach English language learners: opportunities for shared teacher learning

This study examines collaboration between English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers and content-area elementary school teachers, and makes the case for conceptualising teacher collaboration as an opportunity for shared teacher learning. Using a sociocultural theoretical lens, this study examines how three pairs of elementary teachers and ESOL specialists used and constructed tools for collaboration, which mediated and made visible teachers’ learning processes. Employing interpretive enquiry and cross-case analysis, we examined data from classroom observations, teacher co-planning sessions and interviews with teachers. Findings demonstrated that collaborating teachers used tools to articulate and reconceptualise teaching goals, co-construct knowledge and ultimately transform teaching practices to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This study has implications for teacher education and ongoing professional development, by shedding light on the potential affordances of collaborative tools for teacher learning. Findings suggest that teacher education could harness these opportunities for learning by incorporating collaboration between ESOL specialists and content-area teachers as an integral part of preparing more qualified teachers to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students.     

语料库语言学视角下的英语阅读教学

语料库语言学研究这一新兴领域因其独特的研究视角及应用前景越来越受到国内外学者的关注,而将其应用于语言教学也成为研究的重点。我国学者在语料库语言学与英语教学的结合方面已经取得了一定的成绩,但在基础教学及微观应用方面涉猎较少,尚待深入研究。本文以英语阅读教学为切入点,论述语料库语言视角下英语阅读教学的必要性和可行性,并从语篇导入、文体分析、语境猜词三个方面探讨基于语料库的英语阅读教学。     

大学英语口语课堂活动的组织

大学英语口语课程肩负提高学生交际能力、培养思辨能力和传承中国文化的使命。如何让学生积极参与课堂活动,提升英语学习兴趣,培养自主意识是教师关注的重点。分析了影响学生积极参与活动的因素,并挖掘各个因素之间的关系,有针对性地提出一些教学对策和教学方法,用以建立一种和谐和积极互动的课堂教学模式,提高学生自我学习意识,从而主动地进行有意义的英语学习,达到新大学英语课程教学的要求。     

高职英语课堂任务型教学初探

高职教育提倡以就业为导向的办学方针,培养学生的实际操作能力。而任务型教学也主张以学生为主体,使之在参与活动、完成任务的过程中习得语言。将任务型教学法应用于高职英语课堂,令二者有机结合,能够充分体现“以学生为中心”的教学理念。     

高职生英语努力程度与动机类型变量的相关分析——以扬州职业大学师范学院为例

以扬州职业大学师范学院158名高职生为研究对象,分析了高职生英语学习动机类型的强度差异以及对努力程度的影响。结果表明：高职生工具性动机过于突出,而文化性动机受到明显弱化;成绩和学习情境动机变量与努力程度之间无明显相关关系,对高职生英语投入无正向促进作用;动机类型变量的强度高低与英语学习努力程度之间总是呈正比。其中出国和内在兴趣动机的作用强度最大,达到中度相关。