Interpretive responses to images in picture books by primary and secondary school students: Exploring curriculum expectations of a ‘visual grammatics’

As well as maintaining the central role of literature, the new Australian Curriculum: English emphasises the multimodal nature of literacy and requires students in primary and secondary schools to develop explicit knowledge about visual and verbal grammar as a resource for text interpretation and text creation. This study investigated the use of visual grammatics in interpreting picture books by students across Years Four, Five, Seven and Ten following an intensive professional learning programme undertaken by their teachers. A proposed framework describes variation in students' interpretive stance from tactical to diegetic to semiotic. Levels of student semiotic understanding are differentiated and differences between students' oral and written interpretations are discussed in relation the need for explicit teaching of written interpretive responses to multimodal literary texts, drawing on an articulated visual and verbal grammatics appropriate to the teaching of English in primary and secondary schools.     

“Everything Comes from Seeing Things”: Narrative and Illustrative Play in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Black and White</Emphasis>

In 1991, David Macaulay was awarded the Randolph Caldecott Medal for his picturebook, Black and White (1990). He believed the Caldecott committee’s choice communicated many messages to readers of all ages: “that it is essential to see, not merely to look; that words and pictures can support each other; that it isn’t necessary to think in a straight line to make sense; and finally that risk can be rewarded” (p. 419). This article focuses on how Macaulay uses play to engage readers—to arouse their curiosity, to make them think, and to incite them to ‘see things’ in Black and White. Excerpts from Grade 5 students’ written responses illustrate some of their responses to and interpretations of various kinds of narrative and illustrative play in Black and White.     

图书馆绘本阅读推广对儿童阅读行为影响实证研究 ——以长春市少年儿童图书馆为例

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泑泽不是罗布泊，千年误解该纠正

《山海经·五藏山经》记述了帝禹时代进行的人类历史上最早最大规模的国土资源考察活动,《五藏山经》的《西山经》和《北山经》多处提到“泑泽”,并明确指出这里是黄河的源头,其附近是著名的黄帝族都城“昆仑”。关于泑泽的地理方位,历代学者均认为即蒲昌海（位于今日罗布泊遗址）,并相信黄河在此处“潜行地下”数千里后重新冒出地面。笔者对《五藏山经》地理方住的考证已历时数十年,有足够多的理由表明泑泽不可能是远离黄河河道的罗布泊,而是早已干涸的黄河前套太湖泽,而黄帝族都城“昆仑”则位于今日黄河河套以南地区。     

VB中滚动显示大图形的方法

Windows下显示图形文件的软件很多,本文利用Visual Basic中的图形框控件、滚动条控件和PaintPicture方法实现在一固定区域显示一个大的图形文件,利用这一思想可以实现在自编软件中不需借助专门软件显示所需图形.     

国家图书馆馆藏“文革前”出版的连环画及其价值

国家图书馆馆藏"文革前"出版的连环画内容丰富、题材广泛,有的以历史故事与民间传说为题材,还有的贴近现实生活,与现实社会关联密切。这些连环画展现了传统文化艺术的繁荣发展,在连环画出版史上占有重要的位置,并以其通俗化、大众化优势为大众广泛接受和欢迎。"文革前"出版的连环画不仅具有较高的收藏价值,而且是记录和反映社会状况的宝贵素材,有助于普及大众教育、传承文化,对少年儿童具有启智作用。     

沈周《东庄图》的审美意蕴

沈周的《东庄图》是以其好友吴宽的私人庄园——东庄为蓝本的。东庄是园林与村庄的典型结合,《东庄图》中处处具有江南园林的影子。沈周创作《东庄图》并非是对东庄亦步亦趋的模仿,而是不拘泥于真山真水,融入想象的意境,显示出超乎东庄境外浓厚的生活气息。     

External and internal representations in the acquisition and use of knowledge: visualization effects on mental model construction

This article investigates whether different formats of visualizing information result in different mental models constructed in learning from pictures, whether the different mental models lead to different patterns of performance in subsequently presented tasks, and how these visualization effects can be modified by further external representations during task performance. A total of 80 university students learned from an illustrated text different day times and different dates exist simultaneously on the earth. One half of the participants received the text combined with pictures visualizing the earth as a kind of carpet (carpet pictures), whereas the other half received the text combined with pictures visualizing the earth surface as a circle (circle pictures). After learning, the participants received a test including different kinds of tasks. In both visualization groups, one half of the participants solved the tasks with an additional external representation, whereas the other half solved the tasks without an external representation. The findings indicate that the form of visualization affects the structure of mental models. Different structures of mental models result in different patterns of performance, when individuals solve tasks based only on their mental representations acquired during their previous learning. However, these effects decrease, when further external representations are made available to the learners. The findings are discussed within a broader framework of learning with multiple external representations.     

图片新闻中图像符号的多模态批评性分析——以《时代》杂志图片新闻《家中的达赖喇嘛》为例

以时代杂志图片新闻《家中的达赖喇嘛》为例,通过整合视觉语法、社会实践分析法理论建立新的理论框架,并在之基础上对图片新闻中的视觉符号的多模态批评性分析做了实证研究。研究可以将传统批评语言学分析的视野扩展到多模态符号的研究。通过理论构建和实证研究,我们不仅可以"阅读"图片,而且能"批评"图片。同时,通过对某些西方媒体利用图片新闻的方式刻意美化达赖、歪曲事实本来面目之行径的揭露,为我国应对某些西方国家在国际传媒领域的意识形态操控提供实证性的参考。     

论新金陵画派之“山水现实主义”精神圭臬

20世纪的五六十年代,是中国历史上的一个非常之时代。在画史上,该时期以新金陵画派、长安画派、岭南画派、京津画派为代表的画家们以一股强烈的政治热情投入山水画创作中,打破传统山水画表现题材的局限,创造了一种全新的艺术图式,这里称之为“山水现实主义”,并以新金陵画派为个例,进一步解读新金陵画派山水画的现实主义精神圭臬及山水现实主义的深刻内涵。