Two Necessary Elements of Being A Good Language Teacher

How to be a good language teacher has always been a hot topic in both academic and practical areas.This passage discusses about two elements which are important in the view of the author.A good lesson and the role of a teacher have been discussed in this passage.     

表现主义论争：起因、内容及其思考

表现主义作为德国现代主义文艺思潮，在美术、文学、电影、音乐和建筑等领域都取得了明显的成就，但在表现主义文艺思潮沉寂之后的1937—1938年间的关于这场文艺运动的论争再次将人们的视线引向表现主义，这场论争有一定的偏向性，但论争本身也使人们加深了对表现主义的理解，该文拟对这场论证的缘起和内容进行说明，并指出这场论争的意义。     

基于建构主义的英美文学研究性教学探究

针对英美文学的教学现状及问题,探讨了建构主义理论指导下英美文学研究性教学的改革与实践,并对改革实践效果做出了初步的总结与分析。     

比较文学教学的四个关键词

比较文学作为一门学科,内容丰富、学理性强。如何使学生真正了解比较文学学科的价值、意义,使他们正确运用比较文学原理、方法,深入开展文学研究,四个关键词至关重要,即：比较;影响;可比性;变异性。学生只有充分了解关键词的含义,切实掌握了关键词的运用,比较文学的教学才能收到事半功倍的成效。     

“我心目中的好课堂”——来自孩子心灵的呼声

对于什么样的＂课＂是＂好课＂,历来有多种说法,可谓仁者见仁,智者见智。然而,这些所谓＂好课标准＂都是成人所构建的。课堂生活是孩子们经历最多、体验最深的一种生活方式。教育现象学研究要求关注教育情境中师生的＂生活体验（世界）＂,关注教育的实际发生领域,关注生活的意义。由此,本研究旨在用教育现象学的方式倾听孩子们内心的声音,用描述性的语言勾勒出孩子们心目中的＂好课堂＂。     

System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics: New evidence from the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy

This article reports on a two-year evaluation of the Gauteng Primary Language and Mathematics Strategy (GPLMS), an innovative system-wide reform intervention designed to improve learning outcomes in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Using data from universal testing of all learners in 2008 on a provincial systemic evaluation, as well as data from the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Annual National Assessment tests, this article investigates whether or not the GPLMS improves the numeracy skills of learners in early-grade mathematics in underperforming schools. Using as identification strategy, the natural experiment that resulted from a miscalculation of the provincial systemic evaluation test scores in 2008, which had been used to assign schools to the GPLMS intervention, the study shows that the GPLMS intervention is positively associated with improvements in early-grade mathematics performance of schools in the neighbourhood around the assignment threshold. The findings of the study contribute to the growing body of knowledge that shows the effectiveness of combining lesson plans, learner resources, and quality teacher capacity building.     

Exploring elementary students’ perceptions of disabilities using children's literature

The portrayal of characters in children's literature can be a very powerful influence on young children. Teachers have a responsibility to expose children to characters of all types, including those with disabilities. The goal of this study was to explore how third and fourth grade students responded to characters with disabilities in children's books. We read a total of 12 books that included characters with disabilities to students in two third‐grade and one fourth‐grade class at three elementary schools. We video‐recorded discussions about the books and identified the following four themes, all of which related to influences on students’ responses to the character with a disability: (a) societal messages, (b) academic responses, (c) teacher influence and (d) portrayal of disability. We recommend that teachers carefully select books featuring characters with disabilities based on the way the disability is portrayed in the book, and, after the read‐aloud, use questioning strategies that encourage students to make thoughtful, deep comments rather than giving ‘expected’ responses.     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

提升英语专业教师的文学素养的必要性与策略

英语专业教师作为学科建设的重要力量,肩负着语言教学和文化传播的双重使命,其自身的文学素养直接关系到教学改革的成败和人才培养的质量。而教师的文学素养作为教师知识结构的重要组成部分和人文素质的核心内容,其构建和提升是一个长期的动态的过程,需要教师个人、学校和社会的共同努力来实现。