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。     

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。     

国际职业格斗赛事的类型分化与序列演化

职业格斗赛事是以职业选手为参赛主体,以高水平格斗赛事为商品,以此获得经济效益的专门性体育经济活动。在职业格斗赛事领域,格斗赛事经由类型分化,以及同质性格斗类运动项目的聚类融合,呈现出职业拳击赛事、职业站立格斗赛事和职业综合格斗赛事3大类型赛事并行发展的态势。在职业拳击赛事方面,赛事组织经分化呈现出以WBA、WBC、IBF和WBO这4大职业拳击组织举办的赛事序列演化格局。在职业站立格斗赛事方面,“K-1”时代的更迭先后经历了创立与探索发展阶段、由兴盛而衰落阶段与重建阶段;在后“K-1”时代,“K-1”主导的站立格斗赛事发展格局被打破,呈现出多元竞争与发展的格局。在职业综合格斗赛事方面,以美国“UFC”为主导的职业综合格斗赛事经过了从早期“无限制”赛事向“综合格斗”赛事的转型,从“边缘化”走向中兴。在一定时期内,美国“UFC”将主导国际职业综合格斗赛事的发展,在“UFC”的主导下,职业综合格斗赛事将进一步扩张,并呈现全球化发展之势。     

格物致知:博物馆艺术教育的活动规划方式研究

博物馆是承载社会记忆的时空胶囊,是文化交流的最佳窗口。博物馆艺术教育不仅可以保护文化遗产的整体性,还可以培养观众的美感素养及文化品位。通过博物馆艺术教育,观众可以汲取知识,激发好奇心,增进审美能力。通过归纳博物馆艺术教育的功能及其类别,分析博物馆艺术教育的教学理念,提出三种博物馆艺术教育的活动规划方式。     

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.     

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

Although visual arts teachers have free access to high quality online artwork images offering them immense teaching resources, making meaningful use of them remains a pedagogical challenge. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition from face-to-face to online teaching caused an immediate need for teachers to enhance their digital competencies and technological capability for planning and delivering a blended art curriculum. Herein, I propose a ‘teacher-curator pedagogy’ via a study in six primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong to assess its effectiveness. The study took place in the academic year of 2021-22 with 331 student participants. The proposed pedagogy puts visual arts teachers in the role of ‘digital curators’ who create virtual exhibitions for teaching art appreciation and artmaking. This paper addresses the theoretical framework, implementation strategies, and the results of the study highlighting its effectiveness, impact and limitations on teaching when using teacher-curated virtual exhibitions in both physical and virtual learning contexts. It was found that the technological capacity and confidence of the teacher participants was enhanced through the use of online resources and virtual exhibition tools. Making use of the 3D presentation of exhibits in themes and context through digital content curation, the teachers engaged students with deep interaction through the blending of online and face-to-face teaching. However, the proposed pedagogy was limited by the high demand of training and preparation work, hardware and software support, and difficulties in assessing and monitoring learning beyond class.     

Integrating Creative Thinking Skills Pedagogies into a Higher Education Visual Arts Course

Although there has been increasing international emphasis on creativity in education, many creativity training programmes have focused on enhancing students' creative thinking skills with few studies on how these skills can be integrated into the teaching of subject disciplines. As a member of a Community of Practice project that ran from spring 2021 to summer 2022 at my university, I worked with ten university teachers from multiple disciplines to develop and implement instructional strategies to foster students' creative thinking skills. The paper documented the development, implementation and evaluation of creative thinking skills teaching strategies for a higher education course in visual arts. Both the development of the teaching strategies and the measurement of the impact on student learning have undergone vigorous research procedures and made reference to the existing literature. The effectiveness of the activities was assessed using multiple methods including the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, a self-report inventory, and a focus group interview. The results indicated the new learning activities enhanced students' creative thinking skills. They also showed that creativity can be developed through teaching while revealing that playfulness, freedom and structure, group interactions, and problem-solving activities are beneficial for the development of creative thinking skills. Readers may better understand the different ways in which creative thinking skills instruction materials can be developed and incorporated into teaching of visual arts by making reference to the strategies suggested and the process of development in the paper.     

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.