Interactive Storytelling: From the Book of Genesis

Keith Park, advisory teacher for Sense (the National Deafblind Rubella Association) in Greenwich and Lewisham, London, has written about his approach to interactive storytelling for BJSE before. This article describes a series of poetry workshops based on chapters 37 to 45 of the Book of Genesis (the story of Joseph and his family) using the text of the King James Bible of 1611. The workshops took place at Charlton School in Greenwich between September and November 2002. The full text of the Genesis workshops, with a clear exposition of their implementation, is provided here but the article begins with a restatement of the principles of interactive storytelling. The importance of developing curriculum access for pupils with multi-sensory impairments while simultaneously supporting staff who work with these young people in schools is emphasised. Keith Park discusses the relevance of the circle concept in storytelling and the strong focus, in the poetry workshops, on rhythm. He goes on to evaluate the impact of the workshops, both in terms of staff confidence and through examples of the pupils' responses mapped against the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) framework for recognising the attainments of pupils with learning difficulties. The article concludes with some indications of further developments in this exciting and innovative area of practice.     

Tall Stories: The Metaphorical Nature of Everyday Talk

This article questions some popular cultural assumptions about the nature of everyday discourse. It claims that such discourse is in fact richly metaphorical and that, through the operation of metaphor, we fictionalise ourselves as we talk. Because literary writing has dominated our culture and curriculum, English teachers have not been encouraged to explore an aspect of language that is at the core of how we think and behave.     

关于建国以来高校体育专业<体操>教材的研究

对建国以来 5种版本的全国高校体育专业《体操》教材进行比较 ,分析了章节内容、教材特点和结构比例 ,认为各版本教材反映了体操学科知识的系统性和我国体操理论及技术发展的时代特征 ;各版本章节内容的侧重面体现了各历史阶段高校体育专业的教改要求 ,适合体育专业的培养目标 ,教材的发展已形成”体院”和”高校”版二种体系。提出了在 2 1世纪体操教材建议中应探讨的若干问题     

学习型社会与我国高校体育教学改革探析

学习型社会是终身教育倡导者为未来的教育发展和学习活动所勾画的理想社会形态.本文通过分析学习型社会的运行机制,指出学习动机的产生和学习能力的形成是高校教学过程中必须完成的首要任务.而后,结合当前我国高校体育教学实际,从教学观念、教学目标、教学内容、教学方法、教学评价出发,提出了一套具有较高参考价值的改革对策.     

论第四种情报检索语言系统

第四种情报检索语言是自然语言与人工语言结合的一体化语言。第四种情报检索语言系统是一种基于网络的信息检索系统 ,比分类主题一体化情报检索语言系统更高级更新颖 ,是我国 2 1世纪情报检索语言系统研究的方向。加快我国第四种情报检索语言系统研究的关键 ,是解决汉语分词技术问题。参考文献 14。     

Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.     

对英汉对比研究方法必要性的几点认识

语言对比研究的意义是多方面的,本文仅针对英汉对比研究方法在英语教学和翻译研究两个领域应用的意义进行了一些初步的探讨,以引起英语工作者和英语教师对这种研究方法的重视,同时希望加强这方面的工作,并将研究的成果运用于教学和研究领域。     

试论诺曼底征服对英语词汇的影响

英语中的许多词汇来源于法语,法语对英语词汇有着深刻的影响,造成此影响最重要的原因之一即诺曼底 征服。法语对英语词汇的影响主要表现在政府、宗教、法律等方面,至今法语对英语词汇的这种影响还在继续。     

浅谈非英语专业大学英语写作教学的现状及对策

大学英语写作课存在重视程度不够、教法陈旧单一、过度依赖多媒体教学,忽视应用丈写作等问题.教学改革应从重视写作教学、多元化教学、培养实用英语写作能力入手.     

从李白《月下独酌》的英译看诗词翻译规律

通过对李白《月下独酌》不同英译本在形、意、神三个层面的比较分析,表明诗歌在某种程度上说,是不可译的,只能是创造性的移植;但这种创造性移植也有一个原则,即“力求近似”,在形式与意义近似的基础上做到神似;文章旨在找出中诗英译的基本规律和特点.