University lecturers’ experiences of teaching in English in an international classroom

ABSTRACT

Demand for English-taught courses (ETCs) is growing exponentially in non-English speaking universities. These courses require new teaching competences of lecturers, most obviously English language proficiency and intercultural skills. Given the high workloads academics are currently burdened with, it can be expected that this form of teaching is presenting them with a considerable challenge. Despite this, little is known about their ETC teaching experiences. This study addressed this issue by examining and comparing beginning and experienced ETC lecturers’ perspectives on their practices. The study was conducted at a university in Taiwan. Ten academics were interviewed in-depth, some two to three times over a two-year period. The study found the two groups’ experiences were polar opposites. This paper argues an awareness of English as a lingua franca accompanied by student-centered teacher concerns led to the senior cohort’s positive ETC teaching experiences, while a lack thereof gave rise to the beginning lecturers’ unfavorable experiences.     

2019年中国的传播学研究

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叶维廉比较诗学中的“诗意”

叶维廉的诗歌创作经历了从现代到古典、从西方到东方的转变和回归。跨时代、跨文化的双重视角,为他的比较诗学理论开拓了思路,并寻求到诗学理论的据点:文化模子理论。随着国际性文化境遇的恶化,叶维廉感到强烈的文化忧虑,进而走向文化批评的诗学理论建构期,这显示了他深沉的人文情怀和知识分子的责任感。     

Privacy-preserving multi-criteria collaborative filtering

Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes focus on eliminating the privacy threats inherent in single preference values, and the privacy risks in the multi-criteria preference domain are disregarded. In this work, we introduce randomized perturbation-based privacy-preserving approaches for multi-criteria collaborative filtering systems. Initially, the privacy protection methods efficiently used in traditional single-criterion systems are adapted onto multi-criteria ratings. However, these systems require intelligent protection mechanisms that are flexible and adapting to the structure of each sub-criterion. To achieve such a goal, we introduce a novel privacy-preserving protocol by adapting an entropy-based randomness determination procedure that can recover accuracy losses. The proposed protocol adjusts privacy-controlling parameters concerning the information inherent in each criterion. We experimentally evaluate the proposed schemes on three subsets of Yahoo!Movies multi-criteria preference dataset to demonstrate the effects of the proposed privacy-preserving schemes on both user privacy levels and prediction accuracy for differing sparsity rates. According to the obtained experimental outcomes, the proposed entropy-based privacy-preserving scheme can produce significantly more accurate predictions while maintaining an identical level of privacy provided by the traditional privacy protection scenario. The experimental results also confirm that the novel entropy-based privacy-preserving scheme maintains the confidentiality of personal preferences without severely compromising prediction accuracy.     

新《保密法》对涉密档案工作的影响

2010年10 B 1日我国修订的<保密法>正式实施,新法的相关规定对涉密档案工作提出了新的要求.文章以保守秘密与信息公开为契合点,从五个方面谈新<保密法>中定密、解密、新技术、涉密人员等相关规定对涉密档案工作的影响.     

‘I don't have time to be this busy.’ Exploring the concerns of secondary school teachers towards inclusive education

The trend towards inclusion in mainstream Australian schools has seen the numbers of students with disabilities educated in regular schools grow significantly. This trend has been supported by legislation such as the Disability Discrimination Act and the Education Standards. For inclusion to be successful, a number of factors are vital and teacher support for the programme is crucial. While there is research in the area of teachers’ concerns at the primary school level, little research has been conducted at the secondary school level. Research in this area is needed as the secondary school has differing factors from the primary sector that need to be explored.     

关于侵犯隐私权行为问题的思考

侵犯隐私权是目前社会生活领域和法学界争议不定的一个热门话题,隐私权保护是我国经济社会发展洪流中人们法律意识增强的体现.探讨稳私权的概念,并对之进行系统的论述,给侵犯隐私权行为作一个筒单的认定,根据民法理论分析构成隐私权行为的四个特征,并提出特殊群体的隐私权应当给予限制,指出稳私权保护在中国的现状,对于侵犯隐私权行为在我国的明确界定具有一定的理论意义和现实意义.     

Web Security and Privacy: An American Perspective

Browsing the Web gives one the heady feeling of walking without footprints in cyberspace. Yet data surveillance can be both ubiquitous and transparent to the user. Can those who browse the Web protect their privacy? And does it matter if they cannot? I offer answers to these questions from the American legal tradition. The American legal tradition focuses on a right to privacy, rather than a need for data protection. To answer these questions I begin by delineating the differences among privacy, security, and anonymity. I then discuss what information is transferred during Web browsing. I describe some of the available technology for privacy protection, including public and private key cryptography and Web proxies. I then describe the American tradition of privacy in common, statutory, and constitutional law. With the support of this tradition, I close by arguing that although privacy in Web browsing has no current legal protection in the United States, the right to privacy in the analogue equivalents has been recognized in the American legal tradition.