实施"一村一名大学生计划"试点的思考

电大通过实施“一村一名大学生计划”点开展农村现代远程教育,首先要转变观念,充分认识“试点”在电大可持续发展中的作用;其次,实现现代远程教育与农村的零距离,要办好学习点、解决农村学生“学得起”的问题,专业设置要满足农村人口多样化的学习需求.     

Cooperative writing response groups: revising global aspects of second-language writing in a constrained educational environment

This article describes a cooperative writing response initiative designed to develop writing skills in foreign/second-language contexts (hereafter L2). The strategy originated from my desire to cater for my learners’ need to become better writers in English within a constrained educational environment in Argentina. In this article I describe this strategy and show how it has worked in my setting. First, I offer the rationale on which it rests, based on a sociocultural conception of reading and writing. This involves brief considerations about the notions of collaborative writing groups, social responses to texts and coherence in L2 writing. Second, I describe and explain the strategy in detail, and include one handout with specific written instructions (as my learners received them) for the cooperative writing response groups with a focus on coherence, i.e. global aspects of the composing process. Finally, I exemplify the strategy using one learner’s written text as a foundation (disclosed by permission).     

智慧学习环境下学习画面情感的自适应调整

为了在智慧学习环境下实现自适应情感交互,文章首先构建了基于学习者情感的学习画面情感自适应调整模型,并依托此模型开发了原型系统。随后,文章以济南市X中学的98名学生为研究对象,采用准实验研究法,通过学习者情感所占比例分析和问卷数据统计分析,验证了文章提出的假设成立,即智慧学习环境下学习画面情感自适应调整能够提高学习过程中学习者积极情感所占的比例,并能激发学习者的学习兴趣。在智慧学习环境下自适应调整学习画面情感,为解决智慧学习环境情感层面的自适应交互问题提供了新的思路与方法。     

English language learners and kindergarten entry age: Achievement and social-emotional effects

In evaluating the role of kindergarten entry age, previous researchers have not examined the entry-age effects for English language learners (ELL). Additionally, little work has assessed the role of entry age on both achievement and social-emotional outcomes. This study is the first to do both simultaneously. The authors used data from a longitudinal study that followed a national sample of U.S. students from kindergarten through Grade 5. Relying on variation in children's birth dates and in states' kindergarten entrance age cutoffs, the authors estimated how differences in the age at which children enroll in kindergarten are related to their achievement and social-emotional outcomes. Our results show that enrolling in kindergarten as an older entrant is associated with significantly higher achievement and social-behavioral outcomes during the early elementary school years for ELL students, but that these effects largely disappear by the end of elementary school. Policy implications are addressed.     

Identifying the training experiences and needs of bilingual school psychologists

The purpose of this pilot study was to better understand the training experiences of bilingual school psychologists (BSPs) and identify their training needs in the provision of psychological services to English language learner students. The secondary aims of the study were to determine how school psychology programs can better prepare BSPs and incorporate best practices in bilingual competencies into their training models. Six BSPs (Spanish/English‐speakers) participated in the study; findings revealed four themes related to their training experiences: (a) programmatic limitations, (b) assumption that language equals competence, (c) going beyond the classroom, and (d) experiential training. In addition, as a result of their training experiences, the BSPs provided training recommendations in two major areas: (a) trainers and (b) culturally relevant curriculum. Implications for school psychology trainers will be provided.     

通过"交际任务"学习单词的方法探讨

在“以任务为中心的教学法“中,学生在完成交际任务时,会碰到生词.遇到这种情况处理的方法.可分为三个阶段:任务前阶段、任务中阶段和任务后阶段.学习者能在没有教师帮助的情况下,理解、掌握生词并使用它们来完成交际任务.     

以学习者为中心：远程开放教育之实践——上海电视大学的经验与探索

以学习者为中心的理念蕴含了丰富的人性化和个性化内涵,触及了远程开放教育的深层理念,这一理念的渗透将积极引导远程开放教育实践健康持续地发展。上海电视大学在积极参与"中央广播电视大学人才培养模式改革和开放教育试点"项目的过程中,立足区域社会经济发展,努力实现办学思想的转变,提炼出"两个一切"的办学宗旨,并以此为指导,积极提升学校核心竞争力。本文对"两个一切"的产生、内涵、试点项目实践的推进及总结性评估后的整改实践与思考进行了阐述。     

远程学习者的学习引导

加强对远程学习的学习引导，是由现代远程教育的性质、特点及培养目标所决定的。因为远程学习在以往传统学校教育影响下而形成的学习习惯，存在诸多不适应远程学习的现象，对他们的学习引导要侧重于学习动机、自主学习、合作学习等方面，以提高学习在现代远程教育条件下的学习能力。     

Imagining and Moving Beyond the ESL Bubble: Facilitating Communities of Practice Through the ELL Ambassadors Program

When educators do not facilitate English language learners’ (ELLs) social integration in schools, this can perpetuate ELLs’ marginalized status and the plateauing of ELLs’ English language development. This study highlights a program for secondary ELLs called the ELL Ambassadors program, which partnered ELLs with non-ELLs based on shared extracurricular interests. Comparing the stories, perspectives, and test scores of five newcomer ELLs from varied countries of origin, this article shows how program participants strengthened their English language skills and achieved academic success, demonstrating tremendous agency as they gained access to, and were socialized within, interest-based communities of practice. Further, this article documents how youth imagined and claimed new identities, moving beyond the insulation and isolation of the ESL bubble to gaining confidence through interest-based learning with other peers. Findings suggest that interest-based peer programs at schools may create important opportunities for ELLs’ academic, language, and identity formation.