探析微博在大学英语语言习得中的运用

该研究试图探索微博在大学英语语言习得中的运用。笔者以45位同学一个月内的2355条微博为研究基础,分析他们的微博模式和微博目的。研究发现,微博能够促使英语学习者用英语进行交流,促进了他们的语言输出,微博为英语学习者在课堂之外提供了一个积极交流的平台。因此,微博可以运用在大学英语的学习之中,促进语言习得。     

如何培养本科翻译专业学生的批判性思维--以两堂汉译英翻译赏析课为例

近年来,不少外语界专家认为外语专业的学生缺乏批判性思维。在本科笔译教学中,笔者发现刚接触翻译的学生尤其如此。他们容易相信网上的译文,把外教和教师的话当做权威,做翻译的过程中缺乏批判性思维。因此,该文中探讨两节汉英翻译赏析课中如何采用案例教学和数据驱动方法帮助学生培养批判性思维。     

基于建构主义学习理论的二外日语互动教学模式研究

目前,我国高校二外日语课堂教学多以教师为中心,采用“传授—强化—记忆”为过程的“填鸭式”教学模式,老师与学生以及学生与学生之间的互动性不强,课堂效果不够理想,究其根源在于忽视了学习者的主体作用和创造潜能。建构主义学习理论强调以学生为中心的互动教学,对改进目前高校二外日语课堂教学现状具有借鉴意义。应从学习与教学、学生与教师两方面,通过情境创设与合作学习,在师生互动、生生互动以及学生和教学内容的互动中完成意义建构,发挥学生在学习过程中的能动作用,有效提高学生的日语运用能力和课堂教学质量。     

语言中的“反”性别歧视

语言是社会的镜子,同样也随着时代的脚步而逐步更新,它过滤了违背时代潮流的“旧语”,也推出了顺应时代潮流的“新语”。而语言性别歧视话题几经斗争和演变,也都将会在语言这面镜子中得到修正和完善。传统上人们总是片面地认为性别歧视语言主要针对女性,而忽视了对男性的语言歧视;并且,既然性别歧视语言是在历史发展中产生的,那么也必然会随着历史发展而演变。因此,该文从相反的视角,提出“反”性别歧视---一方面研究女性在语言歧视中的“反抗”,另一方面也探究女性“反过来”针对男性的歧视。     

大学英语专业学生批判性思维能力的培养

当今世界,各国对创新型人才的竞争愈演愈烈。创新型人才的显著特点是具有批判性思维。长期以来,我国大学英语专业教学存在的重知识传授、轻思维能力培养的倾向,直接影响着创新型英语人才的成长。为了提高我国的国际竞争力,满足社会发展对创新型英语人才的需求,大学英语专业面临着一场以培养学生批判性思维能力为核心的教学改革。这场教学改革成功的关键在于：坚持“以学生为本”的教育观;营造自主学习的育人环境;调整课程设置与拓展教学内容;加强学生批判性思维能力的训练。     

Application of the Second Language Acquisition Theory into China’s English Classes

Krashen’s second language acquisition theory makes great contribution to second and foreign language teaching field and has caused world-wide attention. This paper will give a systematic analysis to it...     

大学英语课堂新闻教学模式探析

作为内容教学法的一种重要实践方式,新闻英语教学增强了大学英语课堂趣味性,提高了学生学习积极性,扩大了学生视野,进一步提高了学生的英语听说读写能力。本文论述了新闻英语教学模式的具体践行方式,探讨了其对大学英语课堂的积极作用,并提出了如何在日常大学英语教学中更好地完善该教学模式。     

Mathematical language and mathematical abilities in preschool: A systematic literature review

It is well established that early general language during preschool is critical for children's mathematical abilities. In an attempt to further characterize this association between language and mathematics, an increasing number of studies show that one specific type of language, namely mathematical language or the key linguistic concepts that are required for performing mathematical activities, is even more critical to children's mathematical abilities. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the evidence on mathematical language and mathematical abilities. We focus on preschool children as nearly all of the existing work has been done at this age. We first explain how mathematical language has been defined across studies, and report how it has been evaluated in studies in preschool. Next, we present the results of our systematic review. Following the PRISMA guidelines and after a critical appraisal, we ended with a set of 18 papers that were all of sufficient methodological quality. In these studies, mathematical language was defined as terms that are about numbers and operations on numbers (e.g., nine), but also included linguistic terms that do not directly refer to numbers, yet are important to understand mathematical concepts (i.e., quantitative and spatial terms such as fewest and middle, respectively). Some of these studies evaluated children's performance on mathematical language tasks, while others evaluated the mathematical language input provided to the child by their (educational) environment (teachers/parents/interventionists). Mathematical language correlated positively with children's mathematical abilities, concurrently and longitudinally. It also directly affected children's mathematical abilities, as was shown by intervention studies. We discuss potential directions for future research and highlight implications for education, arguing for more support for teachers and parents to improve the use of mathematical language in the classroom and in home settings.     

Writing instruction for social justice: an investigation into the components of a teacher preparation course

Future teachers must notice, navigate, and address ideologies in order to counter inequities in the literacy classroom. This article presents the findings of two teacher educators who have taken up the call to critically reflect on their own underlying beliefs and discourses regarding writing instruction. Through an education design framework, they analysed important components of the course, arguing for a higher degree of visibility of the ideologies and social forces that impact writing instruction. They found that despite encouraging a fairly complex and all-encompassing view of learning to write to the future teachers in their course, the creativity discourse was present passively and the socio-political was downright absent, despite clear social justice aims in the course. They discuss how well-established discourses can serve as gateways to embed the socio-political into the course and address more granularly the question of exclusion through selected mentor texts.     

An interview with Professor Barbara Comber

As part of this special issue on ‘Literacy for social justice’, and at this moment of post-pandemic transitions in education, we invited Professor Barbara Comber to reflect on the needs for and trends in critical literacy education, both in her local context, in Australia, and internationally. In September 2022, we met with Barbara online to discuss her thoughts about what critical literacy educators need, how scholars and educators can work together to produce change, and where we can see hope in critical literacy and social justice education right now, as part of promising anti-racist, decolonizing, and intersectional literacy frameworks and practices.