同伴反馈模式与大学英语写作句式多样性的相关性研究

本文以Krashen的输入假说和Swain的输出假说为理论基础,在大学英语写作教学过程中建立"同伴反馈模式"。通过实证研究,对比传统教学模式和同伴反馈模式与写作句式多样性之间的相关性,最终得出结论,后者更有利于学习者吸收和理解各种句式并将其应用到写作当中。     

反馈法在速度滑冰教学中的应用研究

在速度滑冰教学中,为了使教学内容和方法更具针对性,采取了反馈教学法的实验,对比分析显示:教学质量得到显著提高。     

网络环境下同伴反馈与写作焦虑关系的实证研究

本研究探讨网络环境下同伴反馈对写作焦虑的影响。研究采用SPSS统计软件对受试者在实验前后的写作焦虑程度进行对比分析。同时,辅以访谈方式了解学生对该模式的态度。研究结果表明,网络环境下的同伴反馈在一定程度上能缓解学生写作焦虑,大部分学生认可该模式。     

关于二语学习者对口头纠正反馈的接纳和注意的研究

Schmidt的注意假设认为,反馈可以帮助学习者注意到自己的中介语与目的语之间的差距,有助于中介语的发展。基于此,采用口试及访谈,探究哪种纠正反馈类型更能引起学习者对语言形式的注意和更易被学习者接纳。研究表明,所有纠正反馈都能在不同程度上引起学习者对语言形式的注意;元语言提示和诱导最能引起学习者的注意;学习者的注意度越高,接纳率也越高。     

形成性评价在商务英语口语课堂中的运用

形成性评价在教学过程中的作用不可忽视。在我们一直强调英语教学方法的时候,形成性评价可以作为一个很好的补充来提高课堂教学的有效性。特别是在要求知识和技能并重的商务英语口语课堂中,环节相关性很强的外贸交易靠一次终结性评价无法让学生扎实掌握所有的知识,因而形成性评价的运用对学习的成功会有很大的帮助。     

The effects of the use of a school self-evaluation instrument

School quality care has become important in many Western countries. A number of self-evaluation instruments have been developed in response. The goal of these instruments is improving the quality of education. One such system, ZEBO, was developed for performing quality assessment in Dutch primary schools. The use of this self-evaluation instrument was studied in 79 primary schools in The Netherlands over a period of 5 years. The results of the multilevel analyses with repeated measures show that the use of the self-evaluation results had no effect on pupil achievement scores (so far). However, it did have other effects, for example, an impact on the professional development of teachers.     

Editorial

In a series of policy documents over the past decade, the idea of a ‘New Professionalism’ for teachers has been constructed. It encompasses three core components: a national framework of professional standards; performance management; and continuing professional development (CPD). The planned interplay of these components into a coherent whole has been at the heart of a reframing of the teacher's role. While much has been said about the vision in both positive and negative terms, few studies have provided empirical insight into the implementation and experience of this policy. Drawing upon the findings of a TDA-funded nationwide (England) research project, the extent to which these ideas and policies have been adopted in practice, and what implications these actual behaviours carry for the debate about ‘New Professionalism’, are assessed.

A key finding was that while the framework of professional standards and the structures of performance management processes were essentially in place, the third plinth of the New Professionalism, CPD, remains mainly as a bolt-on, pragmatically allocated and inconsistently accessed in schools. As such, it is unable to bear the weight of what is required of it, and claimed for it. The widespread failure to tackle the strategic dimension that links performance management to CPD, to engage in criterion-based evaluation of training or to identify appropriate development opportunities in schools, have all tended to obstruct the road to ‘New Professionalism’.     

Feedback as a relational concept in the classroom

Abstract

This paper constructs a theoretical argument to frame feedback as a relational concept. It addresses contemporary concern that formative assessment, of which feedback is a part, is under theorised. The arguments presented link to existing theoretical and research evidence. The paper also challenges the dominant policy discourse in high stakes assessment contexts in which feedback is typically seen in technised ways to serve the need to raise measured pupil outcomes. Vygotsky’s notion of the zone of proximal development is explored as a relational space in which both teachers and learners understand differences between learning ‘now’ and learning ‘next’. Extending Vygotsky’s perspective, a socio-cultural perspective is offered, by considering the role of ‘others’, ‘language’, ‘activity’ and ‘identity’, as part of the process of sharing and understanding feedback in classrooms. The work of Holland et al. (1998), Bakhtin (1986) are central to the developing argument. The paper reveals feedback as a complex situated process, requiring mediated dynamic interaction, where feedback is appropriated as a cultural artefact by its participants. The implications of such an articulation demands a greater sense of understanding pupils’ roles in feedback and the importance of teachers enabling pupils to see themselves in new ways as future learners.     

School Education as Social and Economic Governance: Responsibilising communities through industry‐school engagement

This article examines shifts in educational and social governance taking place in Queensland, Australia, through Education Queensland's Industry School Engagement Strategy and Gateway Schools program. This significant educational initiative is set within the context of Queensland's social investment agenda first articulated in its education policy framework, Queensland State Education‐2010. The article traces the historic extension of this overarching governmental strategy through establishment of the Gateway Schools concept, brokering state‐wide industry‐school partnerships with key global players in the Queensland economy. Industry sectors that have formed partnerships in Gateway projects include Minerals and Energy, Aerospace, Wine Tourism, Agribusiness, Manufacturing and Engineering, Building and Construction and ICT, with more industries and schools forecast to join the program. It is argued that this ‘post‐bureaucratic’ model of schooling represents a new social settlement of neoliberal governance, which seeks to align educational outcomes with economic objectives, thereby framing the conditions for community self‐governance in Queensland.