英国公共图书馆“阅读疗愈处方图书”项目研究

本文介绍了英国公共图书馆跨部门合作的典型案例阅读疗愈处方图书项目,从合作主体、合作过程和影响因素三个方面进行剖析,总结了英国公共图书馆响应国家变革战略积极应对挑战,深入阅读疗法研究并积极推广,图书馆行业组织引领合作、项目合作过程规范化透明化等成功因素,为我国公共图书馆跨部门合作创新服务提供借鉴。     

Motivation across domains: Do goals and attributions change with subject matter for Grades 4 and 5 students?

This study explored a theory for motivation which included aspects of both attribution theory and goal theory. Motivational variables included beliefs about intelligence (entity or incremental), goal orientation (mastery/learning, performance-approach, performance-avoidance) and avoidant behaviours. Grades 4 and 5 students from a large, metropolitan school district were surveyed regarding these motivational variables across the academic domains of reading and mathematics. The relationships among these motivational variables were explored, as well as differences across domains. A diverse sample allowed differences across ethnic groups and socioeconomic status to be studied. Results indicate that children could have a generalised notion of motivation that becomes differentiated when students are asked to reflect on these variables within specified domains. The existence of few differences across ethnic and socioeconomic groups suggest that instructional style could be a more powerful influence than either of these variables.     

建构主义教学观在商务英语阅读教学的实践

传统的商务英语阅读教学不能很好的将语言教学和提高学生商务信息处理能力相融合。为改变这种现状,本文从建构主义理论的视角出发,阐述了建构主义模式在商务英语阅读教学中的实践,进而探讨如何在商务英语阅读教学中增进学生的积极性和主动参与意识,从而提高学生自主学习的能力。     

县级图书馆在农村读书活动中的引领作用

论文从开展读书活动的必要性、具体措施和收获三方面论述了县级图书馆应在开展农村读书活动中积极发挥引领作用。     

如何通过阅读提高高中生的英文写作水平

大量的英文阅读对于提升高中生英语写作水平具有重要的作用。本文分析了英文报刊在提高高中生英文写作水平方面的优势,并且提出了利用英文报刊阅读提升英语写作水平的具体表现。     

建构主义理论在商务英语阅读教学中的运用

以建构主义理论的主要观点为理论基础,探讨了新时代下教与学的关系,深入分析了教师与学生在课堂中的角色。文章以商务英语阅读课为例,详细阐述了建构主义模式在商务英语阅读教学中的运用,进而探讨如何在商务英语教学中增进学生的积极性和主动参与意识,从而提高学生自主学习的能力,对商务英语教学法改革以及探索复合型商务英语人才培养的途径提出启示。     

Exploring a new silent test of phonological awareness

This is the preliminary study of a test of phonologicalawareness which does not require that subjects speak or hear toparticipate. The test was designed to minimize memory loads, and tomeasure speeded written naming and segmentation-by-sound. Spelling datacan also be collected. Subjects have 45 seconds to name items in each oftwo sets of line drawings. The average frequency of the names variesacross these sets. In the third set, subjects must name the items, andalso segment the written names into their constituent sounds. This taskwas administered to disabled and normally-reading adults, with twocommon tests of phonological awareness. The new test discriminatedbetween the readers as reliably as the benchmark tasks, correlating witheach better than they correlated with each other. The new test was thenadministered to deaf adults, who performed similarly to the disabled(hearing) readers. The data represent the first direct demonstration ofphonological abilities in deaf subjects, using a task designedspecifically for that purpose.     

Reading disability in boys and girls: No evidence for a differential genetic etiology

In order to test the hypothesis that genetic influences are moreimportant as a cause of reading disability in girls than in boys,composite reading performance data from identical and fraternal twinpairs were analyzed using both concordance and multiple regressionmethods. The sample included 206 identical (99 male, 107 female), 159same-sex fraternal (90 male, 69 female), and 117 opposite-sex fraternaltwin pairs, in which at least one member of each pair had readingdifficulties. Although the difference between the concordance rates forreading disabilities in female identical and same-sex fraternal twinpairs was somewhat greater (65% for identical twins vs.32% for fraternal twins) than the difference in concordance ratesfor boys (68% vs. 39%), loglinear analysis of thesecategorical data revealed that the interaction between sex, zygosity,and concordance was not significant (p > 0.70). Moreover,the heritability of reading disability(h²_g) estimated from regression analysisof the reading performance data in males was nearly identical to that infemales (h²_g = 0.58 and 0.59,respectively; p > 0.90). Thus, results of this studyprovide little or no evidence for the hypothesis of greater geneticinfluence on reading difficulties in girls than in boys.     

Exploring the relationship of creative thinking to reading and writing

This study explores if extensive practice in reading or writing is related to high creative performance. In total, 196 university students participated in the study by filling out a questionnaire and completing a creativity test. The questionnaire inquires the total courses taken in the school year, total hours spent on reading, total hours on writing, and background information. The results indicated that students who spent more time on reading/writing performed significantly better on the creativity test. This study concludes that creativity scores, especially scores of elaboration, are significantly correlated with attitudes toward reading/writing, and the amount of time spent on reading/writing.