青海河南蒙古族自治县蒙古语的衰退与复兴

河南蒙古族自治县位于青海省黄南藏族自治州,在历史发展的长河中因社会环境的变化,地理环境的制约,藏传佛教的影响,长期与周围藏族往来等原因,蒙古族自身原有的传统民族文化发生改变,许多表层文化现象如服饰、饮食、语言文字、风俗习惯等已基本与当地藏族相同。20世纪80年代当地政府和蒙古族群众开始蒙古语教育复兴工作,试图通过制度化的教育有效传承蒙古族文化,然而这一工作在其后的发展过程中却暴露出诸多问题,蒙古语的学习陷入困境。本文以此为案例,运用田野调查的方法,对河南蒙古语教育发展状况作了剖析。     

泰国留学生三组普通话辅音的实验研究

以两名汉语普通话水平为初、中级的泰国留学生作为研究对象,以声学实验为手段,通过对比分析泰国学生普通话三组塞擦音、擦音与中国发音人之间的差异,寻找泰国学生二语习得过程中语音方面的偏误和障碍,最后针对这些偏误和障碍提出教学对策。经过实验分析发现,泰国留学生在汉语普通话的音节时长、声母时长方面与中国发音人存在差异;另外,泰国学生在发这三组音时,舌位均较前。     

Cultural diversity in science education through Novelization: Against the Epicization of science and cultural centralization

Science educators are confronted with the challenge to accommodate in their classes an increasing cultural and linguistic diversity that results from globalization. Challenged by the call to work towards valuing and keeping this diversity in the face of the canonical nature of school science discourse, we propose a new way of thinking about and investigating these problems. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, we articulate epicization and novelization as concepts that allow us to understand, respectively, the processes of (a) centralizing and homogenizing culture and language and (b) pluralizing culture and language. We present and analyze three examples that exhibit how existing mundane science education practices tend, by means of epicization, towards a unitary language and to cultural centralization. We then propose novelization as a way for thinking the opening up of science education by interacting with and incorporating alternative forms of knowing that arise from cultural diversity. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 48: 824–847, 2011     

Where words collide: social class,schools and linguistic discontinuity

The prestige accorded to standard language varieties, particularly within the field of education, together with language management role of schools with respect to the variety and the extent to which linguistic differences construct discontinuous relationships between the school and specific social groups provide the rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus group design, was conducted with two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting ‘ideal type’, socio-economic groups over the period of one school year. Findings outline specific practices where the linguistic expectations and demands within school-space create different implications and outcomes for middle-class and working-class children as a result of their linguistic experiences in non-school space. The implications of these linguistic interactions on patterns of engagement with the school among the children in the sample are also considered.     

Promoting intercultural understanding and reducing stereotypes: incorporating the cultural portfolio project into Taiwan's EFL college classes

Learning about foreign language (FL) cultures is becoming an important objective in the FL curricula and national standards of different countries throughout the world. The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the cultural portfolio project on: (1) students' concept development in their perceptions of the target language culture and their own; (2) students' evaluation of stereotypes towards English‐speaking cultures; and (3) students' self‐awareness and perception of EFL (English as a foreign language) and cultural learning process. Data were collected from students' cultural portfolio projects, classroom observation, and interviews. Results indicate that through the cultural portfolio project, students engaged in active learning, gained insight into specific aspects of the target language cultures and became more aware of the diversity within these cultures, and developed their ability to think critically instead of automatically accepting cultural information.     

《新闻阅读与实践》教学探索

本文主要从宏观和微观两个方面对高中语文选修课程《新闻阅读与实践》的教学提出建议,从而使得学生不仅能真正读懂新闻,而且能深入理解媒介,并适应当下的媒介社会。     

激活医专语文评价体系中的能力因子

我国的语文教育中过于强调对语文知识的记忆,而忽视实际语言交际能力的训练。传统评价实质还只停留在知识评价层面,"能力因子"处于沉睡状态没有被激活,无法完全体现学生的语言运用能力。从考试内容、方法、形式、目的等方面入手,制定以知识、技能和态度为框架的评价体系,激活语文能力因子,使其活跃,从多方面综合地评价学生的语文能力。     

浅谈日语动词活用形教学方法——以习得状况调查为主

本文对初学日语的学生51人,以问卷调查的形式,对他们学习日语动词マス形、テ形的活用形状况进行了调查,并根据调查结果总结了初级阶段较难掌握的动词活用形式和较容易掌握的动词活用形式。     

浅谈对航海英语试题题库改革与建设的几点建议

英语应用能力是航海专业人才的重要素质之一。根据行业要求和航海英语实际教学情况,为进一步完善船员适任证书的考试模式,有必要对航海英语试题题库的内容及形式进行改革,并据此提出一些建议。