专门针对SQA-NHD国际本科生的学术用途英语写作课程设计

与普通的大学生不同,来自SQA-NHD国际本科项目的学生是一个特殊的学习群体。由于国内高校英语教学的目的、方法、课程设置和考试制度与英语国家大学有所不同,决定了在为这一类特殊学生开设英语写作课程时需要有专门的设计。基于此,结合教学实践,提出了一项针对国际本科生的学术用途英语写作课程设计,以期培养和锻炼国际本科生的英语学术论文写作能力。     

基于AWL的大学学术英语词汇与阅读教学

以Coxhead学术英语词汇表(AWL)为基础,探讨基于语料库方法的词汇分类方法,以及学术英语词汇表与学术阅读能力之间的关系。结合目前大学英语课程设置和教学的实际情况,提出开设大学学术英语系列课程,指导大学生通过英语学习促进其专业能力的发展。作为学术英语课程的先行课程,大学学术英语阅读课程将学术英语词汇作为积极词汇列入教学重点,并结合学术词汇、句法、语篇多个层面进行教学内容设计。     

ESP教学理念下轮机英语教学模式探索

本文引入ESP教学理念,认为轮机英语教学目标设定应以需求分析为基础,教学内容应以专业实务为依托,教学方法应以学生为中心、多样化为原则,探索出以应用能力培养为核心、以专业实务为依托的轮机英语教学模式。     

Virtuous mess and wicked clarity: struggle in higher education research

This article considers the value of clarity – of theory, method and purposes – in educational research. It draws upon the work of early critical theorist, Theodor Adorno, and particularly his notion of negative dialectics and his challenge to the traditional dichotomy of theory and practice. Using the notions of virtuous mess and wicked clarity, I argue that we need to accept the messy, contingent nature of the social world we research. I further suggest that it then follows that such research can and should influence and change that world. The researcher is necessarily part of the world she researches and, once one accepts that, it is hard to sustain ethical or political isolation; it is hard to ignore the struggle.     

Why do primary school students drop out in poor,rural China? A portrait sketched in a remote mountain village

In this paper we consider why students in poor and rural regions of China are dropping out of school in numbers that may be greater than official statistics admit. With questions about education quality among the most intractable in Education for All initiatives across the developing world, we sketch a portrait of education in a remote mountain village community as it might be painted from the perspective of a primary school dropout: a portrait in which education quality is well in the shadows. We indicate the limits of the view that commonly relates the phenomenon of school dropout primarily with poverty, a lack of school resources and inequities in resource distribution, suggesting that the picture is more nuanced and subtly shaded at local levels. Our research indicates that the education system in the radically transitional society that China is today brings with it values that clash with those of its citizens, particularly those who are marginalized and cannot easily adjust, perhaps because of their disadvantaged socio-economic, cultural and geographic location. In an ethnographic study in a poor, rural area in Yunnan province, we found significant disjunctions in values: between those of the school system and those of parents with regard to the aims and purposes of education; between those of the curriculum and those of teachers with regard to their role in the classroom vis-à-vis knowledge as represented in textbooks; between those of government education policy and the concerns of the remote rural poor with regard to resource distribution; and between those of a newly market-oriented society and educational ideals about teachers’ and students’ abilities. We also offer some insight into the scale and complexity of the problems associated with a lack of education quality and students’ dropping out of school as a consequence, which cannot be revealed by the official 1% dropout rate.     

对高职行业英语教学体系构建的思考

行业英语教学对高职英语界来说是一个新的挑战,也是一次自我发展和提升的机遇。文章从语言磨蚀的角度论述了高职行业教学体系构建的必要性,从课程定位、教师、学生、教材、教学模式五个维度来探讨构建高职行业英语教学体系的注意事项。     

再论高等职业教育的目的

培养具有何种特质的人才,是确定教育目的的基本依据。问题在于,人才类型与教育类型都有自身发展的内在规律。当二者发展到已偏离最初的样式,相互之间不甚匹配时,是否还能以人才类型作为教育目的的判定依据?基于此,高职教育目的应合理上移,界定为为某些职业岗位培养人才,提供优质的人力资源,并促进身心发展。在此基础上,不同层次、类型、规格、地域的高职院校可以自行确定更细化的人才培养目标。     

Comparing student learning experiences of in-text commentary and rubric-articulated feedback: strategies for formative assessment

This study compares students’ experiences of two types of criteria-based assessment: in-text commentary and rubric-articulated feedback, in an assessment design combining the two feedback channels. The main aim is to use students’ responses to shed light on how feedback strategies for formative assessment can be optimised. Following action research methodology, the study discusses key categories of student responses from three sources: reflective texts, a questionnaire, and interviews. Results show that different functions were attributed to the two feedback channels: in-text commentary to lower-order concerns related to language proficiency, and rubric-articulated feedback to higher-order concerns related to an overview of writing achievement. We argue that the different functions have the potential of creating a sufficiently balanced assessment design with the possibility of serving both short-term and continuous learning goals. On the other hand, some students found it difficult to navigate between the two feedback channels. The article therefore ends with a ‘lessons learned’ section where we list possible ways in which the current assessment design can be improved for optimal use of the synergy effects emanating from a combination of in-text commentary and rubric-articulated feedback for formative purposes.     

The effects of e-business processes in supply chain operations: Process component and value creation mechanisms

Using a process component lens, this paper decomposes an e-business process into technical, relational, and business components. We then draw on resource orchestration theory to identify two managerial actions, resources structuring and capabilities leveraging in using e-business process components, to explain how these three components work together to improve competitive performance in supply chain operations. Two interesting insights emerge from our empirical research corresponds to value creation mechanisms. First, we identify the critical three portfolio effects to promote platform architecture flexibility and partner engagement to develop e-business operations capabilities (EBOCs) in three major e-business processes. Second, we reveal the transformation effect of EBOCs in different e-business processes in obtaining competitive performance. The notion of portfolio and transformation mechanisms of e-business process components offers theoretical and practical implications for developing successful digital supply chain platform.     

Zhenghe''''s Touring the West by Water and Columbus'''' Long Voyages——A Comparative Analysis under the Political Visual Angle

郑和下西洋为什么没有后继者,没有使中国更加开放、更加富强?而为什么晚于郑和近百年的哥伦布等西欧航海家的远洋探险航行却揭开了西欧殖民扩张和资本主义大发展的序幕?这两个问题是学术界早就讨论过的:有主要从海洋意识、海权观念方面考虑的,也有主要从历史背景方面考虑的。本文使用政治学中有关利益的理论,从目的与利益的关系的角度尝试对这两个问题进行回答。