Peripheral Ritualized Practices—Threads Connecting Decorations to the Cloak of Identity

This is an ethnographic study which investigates the practices of language maintenance and ethnic identity affiliation for immigrant/migrant Nepalese families with primary to middle school children in the United Kingdom. The study presents a comparative case study analysis of three Nepalese immigrant/migrant families. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and historical narrative interview were used. The study investigated prior exposure to home country, ethnic, cultural, and social literacy practices that occurred in various contexts during a nine-month period. This analysis revealed a phenomenon I termed peripheral ritualized practices. Exposure to peripheral ritualized practices over time creates positive changes in attitudes toward multilingualism and diversity.     

Intercultural Communication Training for English Language Teachers: A Case Study of an Immersion Program for South Korean Teachers

Little research has been conducted that explores connections between the fields of intercultural communication and English-language instruction. To address this gap, we report on an intercultural communication course delivered as an integral part of a short-term professional development immersion program for English-language teachers from South Korea. Study results indicate that intercultural communication training served to enhance participants’ pragmatics awareness along with sensitivity regarding sociocultural influences on communication that they experienced in situ. After the four-week course, most of the participants expressed desire and readiness to integrate intercultural communication into their teaching in South Korea. Intercultural communication training promises to complement pragmatics instruction aiming at improving English-language learning and teaching.     

Cultural Diplomacy,Branding and the American Film Institute's Project: 20/20

The Global Cultural Initiative (GCI) was a flagship cultural diplomacy effort introduced by the Bush Administration in the mid-2000s; one project of this initiative was the American Film Institute's Project: 20/20, a program of 19 films from five continents scheduled to tour the United States and abroad. This paper is a historical exploration into how the Bush Administration reconstructed American identity and culture through framing, and how that framing was embedded within cultural diplomacy initiatives like the GCI. This paper contributes to an understanding of how intercultural dialogue is often based on key messages and constructed ideas.     

信息技术在幼儿园语言活动中的运用

信息技术的引入对于幼儿园语言教育有极大的帮助,能为幼儿创设轻松、愉悦的语言环境,促进幼儿语言能力和交际能力的发展.作为幼儿教师,应该充分认识到信息技术的优势,通过技术手段给幼儿带来多重感官刺激,使语言活动更加直观化和生活化,激发幼儿学习的积极性.本文通过分析幼儿语言教育的重要性,对信息技术在幼儿园语言活动中的运用策略进...     

汉英思维差异对语言表达的影响探析

在语言交流的过程中,不同民族的人能否有效沟通,不仅取决于他们对语言本身的把握,而且取决于他们对语言所负载的文化思维内涵的理解。只有深刻理解两种语言的思维差异,才能跨越语言交流的障碍,从而使语言表达更加流畅。通过对汉英思维差异的理解,从四个方面分析了对语言表达产生影响的因素。     

Meeting the needs of children with specific speech and language difficulties

Clinical and diagnostic approaches to special educational needs do not translate easily into educational models. In some cases, these approaches can serve to limit understanding of children's wider needs. Children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLD) are a case in point. Clear criteria exist for identification, but identification mechanisms may not relate to the child's wider educational needs. This paper addresses the ways that children with SSLD present in mainstream educational settings. The study aimed to identify all Year 3 children with SSLD in two English local education authorities. One hundred and thirty-three children (95 boys and 37 girls were identified). Sixty-five per cent of the children were in mainstream schools, 14.3 per cent in mainstream schools with designated units and the remainder in special schools. Half were at stage 5 of the Code of Practice, with most of the remaining participants at stage 3. Children experienced a wide range of difficulties, in addition to their primary speech and language problems. Patterns of difficulties varied across children, and associations existed between particular forms of language problems and learning and relationship problems. Professionals (teachers, educational psychologists and speech and language therapists) varied in their understanding of the children's needs. The data highlight the range and diversity of the needs of children with specific speech and language difficulties and the need for a multi-professional approach to these children. It is argued that ‘best practice’ for these children must consider the impact of speech and language problems on children's access to the curriculum and their social and behavioural needs. Narrow diagnostic models do not provide the appropriate information to inform educational practice and support inclusive policies.     

提高语文素质 发展学生个性

提高语文素质，发展学生个性是实现学生自我存在与社会存在的双重需要，是摆脱教育功利主义的束缚，遵循语文学科教育自身发展规律的必然反映，我们应该正确理解语文素质和个性发展的涵义以及二者的统一性。     

体育教学中语言艺术的探讨

语言是师生之间传递信息的重要工具。在体育教学中如何运用语言,提高教学效果,是每个体育教师应该钻研和探索的课题。文中结合教学实践,对如何运用语言艺术进行了分析与探讨,以促使体育教师重视和提高语言修养,掌握语言艺术,从而提高体育课的教学质量。     

论高校体育教学中语言艺术的运用

语言是影响教学效果的重要因素之一,高校体育教师要根据不同的教学内容、教学环境、教学要求以及教学过程运用不同的教学语言,以达到提高体育课堂的教学效果之目的。     

语言活动中“创设适宜教学情境，促进幼儿自主学习”的探究

文章以行动研究法为主，观察法为辅，探索创设教学情境对幼儿自主学习所起的促进作用。对某幼儿园大一班的40名幼儿在语言活动中自主学习的效果进行评价，结果显示学年初幼儿的自主学习能力弱。针对此问题，研究者采取了在语言活动中“创设适宜教学情境”的行动，并分析了各种情境的策略和实际效果，经过6个月的实践，结果证明：创设适宜教学情境能够提高幼儿自主学习的能力。