构建以语言教学为核心的语文教学体系

当前迫切需要研究和建立科学发展的学科理论,从语文学科的基本性质出发,以语文教学的基本任务为核心,以读写听说的语言教学为主体,正确处理语言教学基本任务带动思想教育、文学教学、知识教学等其他任务的主从关系,构建以语言教学为主要线索的语文教学体系,充分发挥语文教师的主导作用,无论是教语文还是学语文,坚持从语言出发再回到语言的基本教学原则。     

青海少数民族语言与翻译论略

随着社会的不断发展、民族的大融合,青海少数民族翻译工作已成为西部地区文化传播的重要途径。因此,展望青海少数民族翻译工作前景,重视民族翻译工作质量,不断改进民族翻译事业和培养更多优秀的民族翻译工作者,必将对促进民族地区文化建设、社会稳定、经济繁荣起到积极作用。     

第二语言习得中的逆向迁移研究

从有关语言迁移定义的回顾和三种语言迁移理论的述评可以看出,忽略逆向迁移现象的语言迁移研究显然是不够全面的。本文论述了语言迁移路径、逆向迁移研究的进展及其理论假设,希望引起对于二语习得逆向迁移研究更多的重视。     

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。     

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.     

A new age for child protection--General Comment 13: why it is important, how it was constructed, and what it intends?

Children continue to be subjected to high levels of violence (i.e., physical, psychological and sexual maltreatment) throughout the world. International concern about violence against children has increased significantly during the last decade. A Study on Violence Against Children, encouraged by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, conducted under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary General and reported in 2006, has become a rallying call to improve child protection. Child protection practices and systems have been judged to be generally inadequate and, in some cases, destructive. It is widely recognized that business as usual—more of the same—will not do. A General Comment (guide to fulfilling obligations) for Article 19, the central conceptualization of child protection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, has the potential to promote a worldwide reformulation of child protection priorities, policies, and practices by virtue of the infusion of a child rights approach. It can be a mechanism for framing and promoting the transformational change needed – for a genuine paradigm shift. Here, explication is given for the historical context, rationale, centrality of child rights, process of development, holistic nature, and primary elements of General Comment 13 (GC13): The child's right to freedom from all forms of violence. GC13 embodies and champions a child rights approach to child protection entailing strong support for proactive primary prevention, promotion of good child care, and a commitment to secure the rights and well-being of all children. A child rights-based, comprehensive coordinating framework is recommended for the implementation of GC13.     

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。