The Talking Drawings Strategy: Using Primary Children’s Illustrations and Oral Language to Improve Comprehension of Expository Text

Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the “before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology, facts, and principles on a particular topic.     

矩阵乘法的来源和意义

本文依据矩阵的乘法规则探寻出它的实际意义 ,再联系理论上的价值 ,揭示了矩阵乘法的必要性     

谈谈文学作品的正读与误读

读者对文学作品的阅读都会有正读和误读。正读是对文本的正确阐释,读者通过作品和作者相互沟通;误读是对文本阅读后的一种错误阐释行为,但误读并非是一种不可取的阅读。正读和误读是相辅相成、共存互补的,对文学作品的正确阅读应是将正读和误读有机结合,才能使阅读成为有意义的阅读,文本才能增值。     

按部就班 循序渐进--谈谈“大学英语”泛读教学的实践与体会

作为外语教学的重要组部分,泛读教学起着使学生从精读教学中获得的语言知识在实用中得到巩固和拓展的作用.为了达到能让学生广泛、快速、高效地阅读效果,泛读能力的培养应贯穿于整个泛读教学之中.     

英语精读课中的文化教学

文化教学是语言教学中一个十分重要的组成部分。探讨在大学英语教学中如何加入文化教学的内容，对于提高英语教学效果具有十分重要的意义。     

Synthesis of TiO2 supported on activated carbon by MOCVD:operation parameters study

A novel metallo-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) technique has been applied to the preparation of the photocatalytic titanium dioxide supported on activated carbon. The effects of various condition parameters such as carrier gas flow rate, source temperature and deposition temperature on the deposition rate were investigated. The maximum deposition rate of 8.2 mg/(g.h) was obtained under conditions of carrier gas flow rate of 400 ml/min, source temperature of 423 K and deposition temperature of 913 K. The deposition rate followed Arrhenius behavior at temperature of 753 K to 913 K, corresponding to activation energy Ea of 51.09 kJ/mol. TiO2 existed only in anatase phase when the deposition temperature was 773 K to 973 K. With increase of deposition temperature from 1073 K to 1273 K, the rutile content sharply increased from 7% to 70%. It was found that a deposition temperature of 773 K and a higher source temperature of 448 K resulted in finely dispersed TiO2 particles, which were mainly in the range of 10-20 nm.     

《汽车材料课程》小组教学的探讨

汽车材料课程教学改革,改变了传统的教师讲,学生听的教学方法。让学生自由组合2～4人一组,每组选择一个专题,收集相关资料、进行市场调查、撰写出专题报告,并在课堂上介绍报告内容、工作过程、工作方法以及工作中遇到的问题和解决方法等。这种教学方法,充分调动了学生的学习兴趣、学习积极性和主动性,培养了学生的综合应用能力,包括团结协作精神、查阅资料获取信息的能力、人际交往与沟通能力、科技文章写作能力、语言表达能力等,取得了较好的教学效果。     

Dreaming the Unstable Wings of Desire: Unseen,Educational Bruisings and The Elusive Self of Literature

When it comes to education, the dream cannot be controlled by the strictures of language or the conscious mind, and in its insistently disobedient character, is unwilling to submit to the demands of a deliberate and conscious curriculum. Indeed, we might say that what dreams represent is the absence of education itself, and a mobile energy antithetical to a fantasy of smoothly functioning teaching. In this article, we approach the question of dreaming’s place in education through two intertwined lenses: the conceptual and the literary. First, we intersperse throughout our paper excerpts from an untitled fictional narrative about a group of students who become progressively more beaten up, and whose teacher is unable to see their bruises, as they embark on the precarious task of expressing their dreaming, creative selves. We also turn to psychoanalytic theory (and, in particular, Thomas Ogden’s theory of dream thinking) to discuss the significance of the impenetrable nature of the dream, and ask how such qualities of unrepresentability might challenge our desires for answerable questions and legible answers. We end this piece with a recognition of the ways in which shared experiences of reading and writing may also support a place for dreams.     

An Examination of Text Complexity as Characterized by Readability and Cohesion

To better understand dimensions of text complexity and their effect on the comprehension of adolescents, 103 high school seniors were randomly assigned to 4 groups. Each group read versions of the same 2 informational passages and answered comprehension test items targeting factual recall and inferences of causal content. Group A passages had a challenging readability level and high cohesion; Group B passages had an easier readability and low cohesion; Group C passages had a challenging readability level and low cohesion; and Group D passages had an easier readability and high cohesion. Students in Group D significantly outperformed students in Group C (g = 0.78). Although the effect sizes of comparisons among all groups ranged from g = 0.13 to 0.73, no other comparisons were statistically significant. Results indicate that adolescents’ reading comprehension is dually influenced by a text's readability and cohesion. Implications for matching readers to instructional text are discussed.     

强化语文教学提高学生听说读写能力探研

对学生听、说、读、写综合能力的培养,是我国现阶段语文课堂所大力提倡的教学目标。在语文教学过程中,教师要在引导学生学会"听"的基础上,进一步提高"说"的能力,并通过课内及课外的阅读不断积淀语文底蕴、夯实语文功底,进而向提高写作能力迈进。