Integration of technical vocabulary into peer observation of teaching for Taiwanese elementary school English teachers’ professional learning

This study explored the integration of technical vocabulary into pre-observation conferences and its influence on English teachers’ professional learning and discussion in their post-observation conferences. The conceptual framework based on Harvey [2011. “A Sociocultural-Theory-Based Study of the Impact of Mediation During Post-observation Conferences on Language Teacher Learning.” Unpublished doctoral diss., University of South Florida] and Goe, Biggers, and Croft [2012. Linking Teacher Evaluation to Professional Development: Focusing on Improving Teaching and Learning. Denver, CO: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality] was used to analyse the questionnaire, audio recordings, and documents collected in seven peer observations of teaching in Taiwan. This study has two major findings. First, English teachers regarded the technical vocabulary as stimuli for their professional learning; however, the range of technical vocabulary used during the post-observation conferences was limited. Second, three major factors affected their use of technical vocabulary. A new model was proposed in order to effectively integrate technical vocabulary into peer observations of teaching for elementary school English teachers’ professional learning.     

高职学生词汇学习策略调查与分析

采用定量研究的方法,通过问卷调查、词汇测试和个人访谈,分析了高职学生词汇策略的使用情况及高分组与低分组学生使用策略的差异,高分组能较频繁地使用一些复杂的认知策略,最后提出相关的改善教学的建议。     

日语敬语在职场中的使用

日语敬语是日语中用于表达敬意的词语,用来表示说话者、听话者、话中人物之间的社会阶级、亲疏等关系.使用敬语是日语的重要特点之一,尤其是在一些社交场合必须使用敬语,以表达适当的身份关系和礼貌.但由于敬语的语法、内容比较复杂,要想完全掌握也是比较困难的事.着重讨论职场中敬语的使用.     

语义场策略在英语词汇教学中的运用

词汇是语言的基础,词汇学习是英语语言学习中至关重要的环节。本文分析了英语词汇学习的现状,介绍了语义场策略理论,并在该理论的基础上,对高职英语词汇教学方法进行了探究和尝试,取得了一定的效果。     

论希腊罗马神话对英语词汇的影响

希腊罗马神话作为西方文化的源头之一,对西方文化产生了极其重要的影响。语言是文化的载体,也是文化的一部分。许多英语词汇源于希腊罗马神话,如果对希腊罗马神话一无所知,就很难理解这些词汇的深层含义,更谈不上掌握和运用这些词汇。通过简述希腊罗马神话的重要性和详细分析一些源于希腊罗马神话的词语及典故,主要讨论希腊罗马神话对英语词...     

基于微课的大学日语翻转课堂教学模式研究

高校日语传统教学中以教师教授为主,存在学生日语操练不足、学习效果一般、积极性不高、个性化需求无法满足等问题。随着科技和信息技术的发展,新的教学理念和教学模式不断被提出和验证,为高校日语教学改革提供了新思路。作为全球教育界最为关注的两种教学模式,“翻转课堂”和“微课”已经取得了国内外较多的研究成果和教学效果。本文旨在研究在高校日语课程教学中采用基于微课的翻转课堂教学新模式。通过在教学改革中对新模式的应用,提高大学生日语学习的自主性和积极性,同时满足个性化学习需求和课程教改需求。     

Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation of minzoku in the Japanese empire

Focusing on the work of the Japanese sociologist Koyama Eizō, this paper critically explores the development of Japanese race studies from the late 1920s to the 1940s. During this period, Japanese intellectual discourses on race developed in the context of the need to manage heterogeneous populations within the Japanese empire and contain the growing mobility of populations in and outside of the territory. Reflecting Koyama’s keen interest in racial/ethnic contacts and interdisciplinary perspectives, his intellectual work symptomatically exemplifies not only the convergence of knowledge production and the dominant imperial regime but also the transpacific implications of Japanese race studies. On the one hand, my study examines Koyama’s preoccupation with racial/ethnic contacts in relation to imperial security and also traces how his study intersected with the discourse of American social scientists who were also interested in Japanese migrations. On the other hand, the study examines how the development of the idea of minzoku in Koyama’s discourse coincided with contemporaneous attempts to mobilize diverse populations in the empire. Thus, my research reveals a complex dynamic of integration and differentiation in discourse on Japanese race studies in the interwar era.     

The history of the unspeakable: Shimokawa Masaharu’s The forgotten history of evacuation

ABSTRACT

Histories of wartime Japan often focus on the Japanese home islands after Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on 15 August 1945. Japanese citizens living in Korea, Manchuria, and elsewhere in the far-flung Japanese Empire are usually left out of the historiographical record. In a new book about the evacuees—hikiagesha—from the defunct Empire, Shimokawa Masaharu presents a vivid, harrowing portrait of the suffering of those who had to make their way back to Japan after the end of the Greater East Asia War. In particular, Shimokawa focuses on Izumi Sei’ichi, who established a sanatorium and abortuary in Fukuoka for women who had been raped by enemy soldiers.     

壮语通用词汇中的动物名词音义关系考察

通过对《壮语通用词与方言代表点词汇对照汇编》一书中139个动物名词音义关系的考察表明:壮语通用词汇中的动物名词有相当一部分是有音义联系的,除了有一部分是摹仿动物之声而形成的词外,还有从外形(包括体型和动态)特征、内在性质等命名的,同样具有联想比附的思维模式。尤其在对汉语早期词汇的借用和改造(转换)过程中表现出壮民族面对强势语言从容应对的机敏。     

复杂式单词听写任务对大学英语词汇习得的作用

听写既是一种语言测试方法也是一种教学手段.单词听写作为一种传统的教学手段,曾被广泛地运用于我国外语教学中.本研究改良了传统的单词听写任务,通过实证研究求证该任务对大学英语词汇习得的作用.结果表明,复杂式单词听写任务中,学习者的学习过程具有"曲折反复,总体上升"的路径特点,高水平学习者呈现出持续进步趋势,低水平学习者呈阶...