Towards an ethics of sexuality – alternative feminist figurations and a (boy) child: a close reading of a prize-winning sex education manual from the early twentieth century

Sex education has been a major concern that has run in parallel with the creation of the modern concept of childhood (innocence) in Western societies. When priests opposed sex education for children, teachers and physicians advocated the need for education. In Sweden, in the early twentieth century, two female physicians wrote a prize-winning manual about sex education. In this paper, I present a close reading of the manual with a focus on how the (boy) child and (mother) woman were presented. The analysis aims to read the manual in three ways pointing to how it communicated resistance to otherings of the female body: (i) one reading focusing on how the female and (boy) male bodies were imagined, (ii) a second reading informed by Freudian theory and, (iii) a third reading guided by contemporary feminist studies which highlight, among other topics, the importance of investing in a representation of femininity defined by women. I will show how the authors gave an alternative interpretation of the mother–child-father relationship compared to Freud, and that they did so by writing their bodies into the text. The analysis shows how a striving towards an ethics of sexuality, including gender equality, have been part of the sex education genre for many years, and can serve as an inspiration today.     

选择题在英语阅读测试中的设计原理与利弊

对阅读能力的测试可以综合考查学语言知识的综合运用能力。作为测试阅读能力最常用的多项选择题题型,它的设计直接影响着阅读测试的效度。本文从3个方面探讨了影响英语阅读测试多项选择题设计的一些原理和多项选择题型测试的利弊。     

阅读与阅读测试研究概述

阅读是人们获取信息的重要手段之一。阅读测试是语言测试的一个重要部分。介绍阅读的有关理论、阅读测试的设计原则和题型以及与阅读、阅读测试有关的实证研究，可以促进对我国各种英语考试中阅读测试的研究，改进我们的测试和教学。     

文本阅读和阅读主体的创造性

阅读是阅读主体和阐释主体通过文本进行的对话。文本是阐释主体对文学事件的阐释。一个文本就是一个阅读陷阱。完全忠实于原文的阅读并不存在。写作即阅读,阅读即误读。在文本阅读中,阅读主体解构文本中阐释主体和文学事件和人物的情感认同和价值认同关系,批评性阅读文本,警惕作者和读者的同谋。坚持阅读的主体性和阅读的历史语境性,重建文本的历史性阅读和文本的历史性意义。     

Assessing visibility,legibility and comprehension for interactive whiteboards (IWBs) vs. computers

The usability of interactive whiteboards vs. computers was evaluated on three dimensions (visibility, legibility and comprehension) in the secondary school pupils. The visibility assessment consisted in detecting a visual stimulus varying in luminance using a staircase procedure, legibility was assessed with a target-search task, and we administered narrative and explanatory texts with or without illustrations to evaluate comprehension. The results of the visibility test showed that pupils found the light signal easier to detect on the IWB. For the legibility test, we observed differences in error rates and discriminability according to medium, font size and congruence between target and the distractor letters. Performances in the comprehension test were similar for both explanatory and narrative texts. Moreover, the presence of illustrations does not improve comprehension. These results could be related to the hierarchical structure of the texts, which facilitate comprehension.     

当代大学生的阅读需求与导读策略

以提高高校图书馆的服务质量为目的,通过调查研究,阐述了当前大学生读者的阅读需求,指出在新形势下加强导读工作的重要性,并提出了相应的导读策略,从而更好发挥高校图书馆教书育人的作用.     

我国行业特色型高校产学研协同创新模式探究

在当前新形势下,由于我国国民经济的迅猛发展以及社会改革的不断推进和深化,促使我国社会对当前的行业特色型高校的人才培养提出了全新需求。文章以协同创新理论作为理论指导,对行业特色型高校产学研在国民社会发展发挥的关键作用进行了总述。     

运用逻辑知识提高阅读理解正确率

讨论了学生在英语阅读理解中的难项--推断题,分析了造成这一现象的原因,并提出了运用逻辑知识,提高阅读理解率的一些具体办法.     

Mediation in the relationship among EL status,vocabulary, and science reading comprehension

The authors investigated the mediating effects of general academic and science-specific vocabulary on science reading comprehension among English learners (ELs) of varied proficiency. The sample included 169 regular education Grade 7 students (86 current ELs; 83 former ELs) enrolled in 1 urban school in Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The results indicated that both vocabulary types—rarely explicitly taught at the secondary level—were significant contributors to reading comprehension, above and beyond EL status. The full parallel mediation model accounted for 55% of the variance in science reading comprehension. Notably, the mediating effects of both vocabulary types were significant and statistically similar in size, yet, not sufficient to fully explain ELs' reading scores. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.     

解读篇章语境促进英语阅读

英语篇章作为言语交际的一种形式,是依靠语境构建起来的.语言语境,情景语境,文化语境三者的共同作用赋予了篇章生命力.培养学生的英语语境构建能力要从语篇内、外一齐下手.