关于词汇刻意学习的实证研究

本文通过词汇实验来检测刻意词汇学习和伴随词汇学习哪种学习方式更有效,更持久。实验得出的数据显示: 刻意学习比伴随学习更适合高校非英语专业二年级学生,是他们主要的词汇学习方式,而且更有持久性。     

对提升民营企业会计人员职业判断力的探讨

民营企业会计人员职业判断力低下的原因主要在于制度设计缺陷多、会计人员自身素质低、民营企业微观环境差以及现行会计准则和会计制度给企业留下的会计处理选择空间过大等。目前,我国法律环境的逐步改善和非传统会计业务的出现,使得提升民营企业会计人员职业判断力显得更为迫切。强化民营企业会计人员培训、整治内部违规操作、净化外部环境是提升民营企业会计人员职业判断力水平的必然途径。     

全程开展就业指导,提高学生就业能力

职业类院校应将就业指导贯穿于学生自入学到毕业的整个学习生涯,实现全程化。本文以三年制大专为例,列举了一套就业指导的实践方案,宗旨在于使就业指导成为一项有计划的系统工程,在实践中提高就业指导水平,提高学生的就业能力。     

如何利用"小"场地上好体育课

我区中小学中,校园没有正规体育场地的学校占相当一部分,特别是在农村基层学校,这样的情况尤为突出。对于这些学校,在狭小的场地上要想完成目前教材中所规定的教学任务,从硬件来讲是一个大困难。怎样充分利用小场地上好体育课,成为这些学校研究如何提高体育课教学质量的重中之重。     

杜甫的"陇道难"与李白的《蜀道难》之比较

杜甫的“陇道难”诗共计十六首。这十六首诗记述了杜甫从陇入蜀的一段行程,与李白的名篇《蜀道难》诗的从秦入蜀的行程有交叉之处,因而有可比点。对杜甫的“陇道难”组诗与李白的《蜀道难》诗进行比较,以期探究杜诗与李诗在心理背景、表现手法及风格特色诸方面的不同。     

Images of life in America: The impact of American T.V. in Israel

The present study sets out to uncover young Israelis' perceptions of the American reality using the postulates and methodology of the cultivation analysis approach to mass communication. The comparison of the perceptions of “light” and “heavy” T.V. viewers with measures of the actual reality reveals that heavy viewers demonstrate a strong and consistent tendency to paint a rosier picture of life in the U.S., in terms of wealth and standard of living, even when other factors (age, gender, residence and ethnic group) are held constant. The findings of this study have methodological implications concerning the study of media effects as well as theoretical implications regarding the ongoing debate on “media imperialism.”     

Gender,culture, and geography: A comparison of seating arrangements in the United States and Taiwan

The present study describes and compares seating preferences among Taiwanese and American respondents. Using a questionnaire method, seating preferences were obtained for 75 male and 100 female college students from the United Slates, and for 29 male and 54 female teachers of English in Taiwan. Responses were obtained for all possible combinations of sex of interaction partner, location (task or social), and six interpersonal activities. Results were summarized in the form of proportions of respondents choosing each of four possible angles of interaction: corner, opposite, diagonal, and side seating. Comparisons were made using Chisquare tests for independence.In general, results showed that Taiwanese respondents, when compared to Americans, are more likely to prefer side seating and less likely to prefer corner seating. Culture, sex of respondents, and sex of interaction partner interact in influencing preferences. In the United States, seating preferences function to unite males with females and to separate same-sex partners, while the opposite is true in Taiwan. Results are interpreted in terms of implications for intercultural communication.     

Teacher verbal behavior following student success and failure

Undergraduate subjects taught identifying traits of animals (fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals) to a fifth grade student confederate over a microphone. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four conditions in which they failed (F) or succeeded (S) in teaching five animal comparison problems. The four conditions were (a) F, S, S, S, S; (b) F, F, F, S, S; (c) S, F, F, F, S; and (d) S, S, S, F, S. The teaching sessions were tape recorded and analyzed for Teaching Time, Word Rate, and Voice Amplitude. Analyses revealed increased Teaching Time and decreased Word Rate following failure. Voice Amplitude increased across teaching sessions independent of success or failure. Findings were interpreted as more consonant with frustration-aggression than frustrative nonreward energizing theory.     

Collaborative issues in cross-national research

Although the topic of research collaboration receives infrequent comment, a well functioning collaborative process is crucial to the substantive success of intercultural research enterprises. The present report addresses this topic and focuses on two major sets of collaborative issues, the personal/ personnel and the structural/organizational. The issues are organized around the phases of the project at which they optimally should be considered and resolved.     

The importance of ethnicity in ethnic studies programs

A study was undertaken to determine the importance of ethnicity in an ethnic studies program. Three different dimensions were examined (1) the importance of the ethnicity of the teacher in the opinions of administrators and students; (2) ethnic differences among students in attitudes and expectations regarding such a program; (3) the relationship between the structure or content of the ethnic studies program and the long-range ethnic goals of society. Results of a nationwide sample of academic deans and a sample of students from two colleges in San Antonio, Texas, indicate that the ethnicity of teachers is an important concern for both administrators and students. It was also found that attitudes and expectations, as well as what the primary function of the program and the long-range ethnic goals should be, differed with the ethnicity of students.