The Scaffolding of Emergent Literacy Skills in the Home Environment: A Case Study

The ways in which parent-child interactions can encourage the development of emergent literacy skills in young children remains to be fully explored. The present report describes how one parent scaffolded her young child’s emergent writing and letter knowledge in the home. Environmental print provided many rich and meaningful examples for the parent to show that print conveys meaning and is constructed with letters that have names and make sounds. The parent used idiomorphs, a multisensory approach incorporating the tracing of letters and whole body movements, and common household objects to guide the child’s learning of letter names, sounds, and shapes. Emergent writing skills were scaffolded by using directional language and by the child copying environmental print. The strategies and examples that are described may give guidance to parents and teachers on how to provide engaging opportunities for literacy learning in the home environment or in an early educational context.     

This car seems to be alive – perspectives on the documentary, Plan F

Ed Marko redefines what it means to be not only an auto mechanic but also a person who is blind. At the age of 20 years, he lost his sight from a degenerative disease called infantile glaucoma. However, he has surpassed what we traditionally think of as the capabilities of blind people. Now in his late 60s, he was once a rehabilitation counsellor, but he also enjoyed working on cars. Then he decided to open his own shop, Community Car Care, in Columbus, Ohio. Plan F , a 27-minute documentary awarded the 2007 Oxford International Film Festival Award in cinematography and nominated for best short documentary at the Southern Winds Film Festival, takes us through a day in Ed's life as we watch him work on cars and interact with his partner Brad and his cat. Ed teaches us that one does not need to see to work on cars as he uses his fingers and tongue to manipulate bolts, nuts and bearings. The ways Ed navigates the auto shop demonstrate how he approaches life. If Plan A does not work, he moves on to Plan B. Flexibility and a sense of humour allow him to switch to a new plan when the first one does not work out. In this review of Plan F , we begin with summaries of the nine major scenes of the documentary, followed by reviews by a blind and a sighted person. The piece concludes with comments from the director.     

多媒体网络技术辅助大学英语写作教学探讨

英语写作教学是英语教学中的一个重要方面,提高英语写作教学的效率一直是教学实践中急需解决的问题.多媒体网络技术对学生英语写作能力的提高有很好的促进作用,为这一难题的破解提供了一个新的思路.     

洪仁矸新闻思想解读

洪仁矸受西方民主政治的影响,构建了一个美好的新闻愿景;同时,受儒家思想的影响,又不自觉地将“文以载道”的文化观渗透进他的新闻思想中,着力强调新闻的政治教化功能。洪仁矸新闻思想的内在矛盾,源于两种文化的冲突碰撞,却在无意中构建了当今党报与大众化报刊的两种经营模式。     

Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing

This paper draws upon data from a research project, undertaken in 2 Year 6 classrooms during the 2006 World Cup, to analyse how children used complex sentence structures in their writing on a football web‐log. We explore how the confluence of a temporary, popular, global event and an online forum for communication created a moment of linguistic empowerment where pupils began to use high‐level forms of language, and we consider the implications of transience and interactivity for the teaching and learning of sentence grammar.     

消息写作教学中的要素图式法及其运用

高校新闻专业的消息写作教学很有必要借助要素分析来达到更好的教学效果,并使学生将这一方法应用于报道实践。要素图示法便是对此的一种直观运用。它可以用于消息“写什么”和“怎么写”的教学过程中。     

族群认同视野下的侗文教育

在当今经济全球化进程快速发展的背景下,中国少数民族语言文字生存和发展的前景日益受到人们的关注. 笔者根据在贵州省侗族聚居地区开展田野调查的材料,从人类学族群认同理论的"原生论"和"工具论"的角度,对当前侗文在侗族地区扫盲教育及学校教育中的使用情况以及人们对它的不同态度及评价进行了描述,探讨了侗文作为族群标记和交际手段的双重性.     

诗歌的底层书写——对郑小琼诗歌中“铁”意象的分析

底层书写是上世纪90年代文学界兴起的一个热点现象,它主要关注的是何谓底层以及底层如何表述的问题.郑小琼的诗歌通过"铁"的意象,从底层打工者生存的三个方面--生存环境、生存状况、话语缺失展现了底层生活的状态以及她对底层生活的见证和反思,体现了明显的底层书写特征.     

大学英语写作衔接错误探析

在英语写作中应用衔接手段能促进作文的连贯。然而,《大学英语》学生在衔接手段使用方面常出现错误,影响了作文的连贯性和语篇的质量。文章以Halliday的语篇衔接理论为研究框架,按照错误分析原则和方法,对某高校部分非英语专业大学生的一次写作文本衔接手段使用错误进行分析,并提出给予教学的启示及改进作文教学、加强衔接手段训练的建议。     

新中国图书馆事业发展的一次浪潮——记“全国图书协调方案”及其协作、协调活动

1957年<全国图书协调方案>的公布以及国家科学规划委员会"图书小组"的设立,使我国的图书馆事业走上了全面规划,统筹安排,资源共享的道路,并以此带动了图书馆的十部培养与业务学习,逐渐形成了新中国图书馆事业在20世纪50年代末、60年代初的发展高潮.参考文献5.