现代英语教学法主要流派之我见

文章旨在论述不同历史时期影响较大的八种英语教学方法,并对其做出评价及比较,以便有助于英语教师在教学中扬长避短,提高自己的教学水平.     

Valuing and Desiring Purposes of Education to Transcend Miseducative Measurement Practices

Abstract

The separating and isolating tendencies of measuring practices can lead educators to lose sight of the aims and purposes of education. These end purposes can be used to guide and ensure that the activities of educators are educational, and therefore, Biesta recommends there is a need for educators to reconnect with them. This article. explores this notion of a ‘reconnection’ and argues that if educators are to challenge any potentially miseducative measuring practices, then this reconnection must require educators to value and desire particular end purposes. Desires are recognised to be existential in character and are identified as being necessary for initiating actions. It is argued here that this aspect of desires is important for understanding the significance of a ‘reconnection’ because without it the purposes of education may remain only as abstract philosophical ideals. To make a difference and to challenge the isolating and miseducative tendencies of some measuring practices, educators must come to value particular purposes of education, and in addition, they must exercise the courage to enact them. This can be made possible because educators strongly care for and desire the actualisation of the purposes to which they are connected.     

Learning through engaging in retrospective reflection on a change process in an English course on workplace communication

This study describes a change process of implementing role-plays in a course on workplace communication in English, and of engaging in retrospective reflection. Considering that English education for nursing students in Taiwan has focused on the development of medical terminology and that students’ communicative competence is the main deficiency, the author conducted the change process in a medium-scale district hospital where she worked as a clinical nurse and in a nursing college where she taught English as a part-time teacher. The results show that engaging in retrospective reflection allows a teacher to construct knowledge from experience for professional growth.     

Meeting the Great Challenge: What Growth-Oriented Writing of the 1960s and 1970s can Teach Us about Uniting the Individualistic and Social Aims of English Education

This study explores the relationship between two values that sit at the heart of English education: a commitment to democratic citizenship and a commitment to fostering students’ personal growth. Some scholars have argued that these values are often at odds and the ‘great challenge’ of the field is to unite the individualistic and social goals of English education. The study explores the commensurability of these aims by considering the way they were united in the growth-oriented practitioner writing composed in the decade after the Anglo-American Seminar on the Teaching of English in 1966. To conduct the study, I examined English Journal articles written between 1968 and 1978 to see if articles that emphasised students’ personal growth also attended to the goal of democratic citizenship. The analysis shows that while it may be rare for advocates of the personal growth model to attend to students’ development as citizens, these goals are not inherently incompatible. I conclude with closing remarks on what this study suggests about how the field might meet the ‘great challenge’ of uniting the individualistic and social aims of English.     

环境规制条件下绿色技术创新的国际资本和贸易渠道研究

利用2005—2014年中国30个省级行政区(西藏和港澳台除外)的面板数据,对环境规制条件下外商直接投资、对外直接投资、进口和出口贸易对绿色技术创新的影响进行了分析,结果如下,从区域角度来看,环境规制条件下的FDI、OFDI、进出口贸易对全国、东部和中部的绿色技术创新存在正向影响,对西部地区的影响不显著;从影响程度来看,这一影响呈现出显著的区域差异性。因此,为提高绿色技术创新水平,各区域应制定符合自身实际的发展策略。     

中国对外直接投资决定因素研究

哪些因素影响对外直接投资,是对外直接投资实证研究的一个重要内容。本文利用统计数据对中国对外直接投资的决定因素进行实证研究,重点考察技术能力与中国对外直接投资之间的关系。首先依据相关理论提出假设,然后运用不同的回归方法对假设进行数据检验。分析结果表明,现阶段技术能力尚不构成中国对外直接投资的决定因素。对此我们认为,现阶段必须依靠组建企业间研发同盟、促进高新技术产业的对外投资等方式来提升我国对外直接投资的整体水平。     

Convergence and polarization in global income levels: a review of recent results on the role of international technology diffusion

We review the recent literature on technological change and diffusion to shed new light on the evolution of the world’s cross-country income distribution. Technology is viewed as non-rival knowledge in the sense that firms in more than one country can simultaneously use it. R&D investments generate often also a return outside the innovating firm itself; these knowledge externalities are called technology spillovers. We emphasize that technology is to some extent tacit, and technology diffusion often involves the face-to-face interaction of people. Our paper reviews the evidence on whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and other cross-border activities are important for technology diffusion.     

Reconsidering the social and economic purposes of higher education

In this article I seek to reconsider the social and economic purposes of higher education. It begins with the premise that there appears to be a general trend towards governments positioning higher education primarily in terms of the economic role that it can fulfil. Such a trend, however, has attracted considerable criticism. In this article I argue that the problem for higher education is not it having an economic role, but the narrowness of the way in which that role is often conceptualised. Drawing on critical theory I explore the interrelation of economic and social factors within higher education and the wider society in which it is situated. This article argues for a redefinition of the purposes of higher education to ensure that both universities and workplaces are sites of human creativity and that the profound and exciting work within institutions of higher education benefits all members of society.     

习语类型和呈现方式在英语习语直接学习中的效果研究

通过测试受试在单词列表和句子语境两种习语呈现方式下学习和汉语习语相似的和相异的英语习语时,对所学习语意义的记忆,考察了习语类型和习语呈现方式对ESL学习者直接学习英语习语的影响。结果显示：语境方式更有利于受试对英语习语意义的记忆;受试在记忆与汉语习语相似的英语习语时表现出明显优势;习语类型和习语呈现方式两个变量之间无交互作用,各自独立影响习语的学习效果。     

肇庆市大学生体育消费现状调查与分析

运用文献资料法、逻辑分析法、问卷调查法,通过对广东省肇庆市普通高校大学生体育消费现状进行调查研究,发现当今大学生体育消费意识的结构不合理,提出了制约当今体育消费发展的因素,引导大学生良好的体育消费习惯,引导体育市场正确合理前进。