新闻报道的及物性对比分析

及物性系统是功能语法中经验功能的重要组成部分,在小句的描述和分析中有重要作用。在M.A.K.Halliday系统功能语法的框架下,通过对两则新闻报道的及物性系统,即对其过程类型、参与者和环境成分方面进行对比分析,可以明确及物性系统在新闻语篇分析中的应用,展示出新闻语篇在语言运用上的基本特点并对不同的新闻语篇作出评价,从而进一步证明系统功能语法在语篇分析中的可操作性。     

农村税费改革与基层政府职能的定位

造成目前农民负担加重的原因是多方面的，农村财政体制不仅仅是表象，深层次原因则是由于农村实行生产联产家庭承包责任制后，上层建筑改革滞后，基层政府职能错位所造成。税费改革减轻了农民负担，但同时也使基层政府的运转陷入困境，导致政府缺位。如果不改革农村政治体制，规范基层政府职能，农民负担仍会反弹，因此，税费改革必然要求基层政府的改革和准确定位，重新塑造政府与农民的关系。     

对唐诗《江雪》英译文的经验功能分析

韩礼德建构系统功能语法的目的之一是为语篇研究提供一个分析框架。从韩礼德的经验纯理功能入手,分析了唐代诗人柳宗元的《江雪》一诗的五种英译文,希望能给翻译研究带来启示,帮助人们重新审视翻译研究中的一些难题;同时通过讨论佐证了黄国文教授提出的系统功能语言学在诗歌分析中的可操作性和应用性。     

Physical fitness of primary school children in relation to overweight prevalence and physical activity habits

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was carried out to analyse, through a limited number of fitness tests, the main conditioning and coordinative abilities in children aged 8–9 years, and their relationship with gender, anthropometric variables and physical activity habits. The height and weight of 256 boys and 241 girls were measured and information about physical activity habits was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Physical performance was assessed by means of a few standardised tests: ‘sit & reach’, medicine-ball forward throw, standing long jump, 20 m running speed, and forward roll test. In both boys and girls, body weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) were positively correlated with the medicine-ball throw performances and negatively correlated for the standing long jump and speed tests, while no association was found with tests measuring back flexibility and total body coordination. Daily physical activity and participation in sport were not significantly correlated with body weight and BMI, but were positively associated with children's motor performance. The standardised fitness tests selected in the current study have been found to be suitable to identify fitness levels of primary school children. Thanks to their limited number and ease of measurement, they can be used in any school context to classify children and for monitoring the effects of targeted interventions promoting physical activity.     

VOA特别英语新闻与标准英语新闻语篇功能对比分析

VOA特别英语在英语学习者中十分流行。普遍认为它适合英语学习者练习听力及提高英语水平。通过对比分析两篇VOA英语新闻（分别是同内容的标准英语新闻和特别英语新闻）,以系统功能语言学为理论框架,探讨VOA广播新闻语篇体裁的特点,VOA特别英语的特别之处,以及作为真实的语料它是如何适应英语初学者。     

Functional reading difficulties in Denmark

In this first Danish study of adult reading skills, 1124 adults between 18 and 67 years of age participated in an interview about reading habits and skills, and 445 were tested individually at home using six common texts. Great care was taken to ascertain that subjects were representative of the whole adult population and that the texts covered most types of everyday reading. Three percent of the participants were found to have severe functional reading difficulties and a further 9 percent to have moderate difficulties. Regression analyses found several unique predictors of reading difficulties: age (adults over 45 years reading more poorly than younger adults), limited basic education, no vocational training nor higher education, and a small amount of reading needed at work. The rate of poor readers was about four times higher among persons with low income than among others. Men and women read equally well although men tended to rate themselves lower as readers than women did. Methodological issues and some educational implications are discussed.     

Differences of math anxiety groups based on two measurements,MASS and EEG

This article investigated how mathematic anxiety (MA) of Korean middle school students could be reduced by comparing analytically their cognitive neuroscience and questionnaire results. We developed a three-hour Complex Treatment Program (CTP) on quadratic functions for the study. In the summer of 2016, we collected data of the pre and post MA questionnaires by Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Students (MASS), the percent of correct answers (PCA) and reaction time (RT) by E-prime program, and also brain-imaging data of the event related potentials (ERP) by Electroencephalograph (EEG) using computer-based functional F-G model. The result indicated the CTP to be effective with the group with higher math anxiety and the group with higher achievement respectively. The MASS result was verified with the better performance of PCA on type G, which was measured by E-prime program. Some interesting patterns were revealed on brain-imaging data by EEG, indicating more brain activities with the MA groups.     

The effects of function-based communication intervention for a student with emotional disturbance in a general education setting

Research has shown that most children with emotional disturbance (ED) are struggling to use communication skills and they may tend to use inappropriate behaviours as a form of communication to disclose their needs. A function-based communication intervention might be an effective approach to decrease inappropriate behaviours of children with ED. The purpose of this single-case multiple baseline reversal design (ABAB) study was to examine the effectiveness of the function-based communication intervention for on-task and disruptive behaviours of an 8-year-old student with ED. Functional behavioural assessment (FBA) was conducted and based on the findings of FBA, a colour-coded communication system, was implemented during reading and math classes. The findings indicated that function-based communication intervention was effective in increasing on-task as well as decreasing disruptive behaviours. Furthermore, the function-based communication intervention improved communication between the teacher and the student that resulted in decreasing disruptive behaviours in a general classroom setting. The generalisability of the findings due to the limited number of participants was an important limitation for this study. Future directions, as well as implications for practices, are discussed.     

Examining the effect of positive behaviour support on academic achievement of students with disabilities

Students who engage in challenging behaviour compromise the fundamental ability of schools to educate children. Consequently, teachers face the daunting task of designing effective strategies to promote positive educational outcomes for their students. Since the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act amendments, the use of positive behaviour supports (PBS) to address the behavioural needs of children challenged by disabilities has expanded. There is evidence to support the utility of PBS in reducing challenging behaviour among students. However, successful schools are also gauged by the academic achievement of their students. Hence, it is important to examine the extent to which behavioural outcomes are related to academic outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which PBS interventions aimed at reducing challenging behaviour result in corresponding improvement in academic achievement. A meta‐analysis of extant research indicated a positive correlation of 0.40 between improvement in problem behaviour and academic achievement. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/c9OUU0GkGrw .     

“刘姥姥进大观园”语篇语境与人际意义构建

系统功能语言学是一个致力于理论指导实践的适用语言学理论,它为语篇分析提供了强有力的理论依据。曹雪芹在《红楼梦》中对刘姥姥浓墨重彩,大书特书。运用系统功能语言学理论对＂刘姥姥进大观园＂人际意义构建所做的分析与＂刘姥姥进大观园＂语篇语境相吻合,进一步验证了系统功能语言学对语篇分析的适用性。