第二语言测试研究的新趋势

本文根据美国《教育测量》第四版中《第二语言测试的历史及发展趋势》一文,对第二语言测试的发展趋势做了简要介绍。该文提出,长期以来第二语言能力一般被认为是一个人稳定的特质(或构念),测量时是不变的。而新的观点认为,在测量第二语言能力时语境起了非常关键的作用。因此,研究者们应该考察语境和构念的关系,将构念重新界定为语境中的语言使用者的能力。     

二语语言学习策略研究述评

就国内外有关二语语言学习策略的界定、分类、语言学习策略与语言学习及语言学习策略的训练几个方面进行了较为全面的介绍和概括。     

民族地区基于微信的混合式教学在二外日语课程中的应用与研究

随着科技的迅猛发展,人们不断地在探索教育教学改革的新模式,混合式教学为当前的课堂教学改革提供了一种创新性、持续性的新思路。混合式教学不仅发挥了教师的引导、启发、监控的主导作用,也调动了学生的主动性、积极性与创造性[1]。本文基于民族地区高校学生的学习环境和特点、微信的显著优势和二外日语课程的教学现状,论述混合式教学的可行性。     

论二战后澳大利亚大规模移民的原因及影响

第二次世界大战是澳大利亚移民历史的转折点,二战后由于英国移民的减少,澳大利亚政府从现实利益出发,开始逐渐接纳世界各地移民,并推行了各民族平等的多元文化政策,这场大规模移民虽然使澳大利亚人口组成更加复杂化,但它加强了澳大利亚的国防力量,在全球经济一体化的今天,它在很大程度上推动了澳洲经济的发展与文化的繁荣。     

Teachers’ strategies of teaching primary school mathematics in a second language: A case of Botswana

This paper reports the results of a study of primary school mathematics teaching in northern Botswana in order to highlight the strategies teachers use in bi/multilingual classrooms. Questionnaire and interview data collection procedures were used. The findings, which are based on responses of randomly selected primary school teachers, confirmed that monolingual classes were fewer than bilingual and multilingual classes in those parts of Botswana. Furthermore, syllabus analysis confirmed the abstract nature of mathematical concepts. Teachers report to have devised strategies to overcome the difficulties imposed by this classroom situation.     

英语听力课堂中的交互活动

从听力认知法和二语习得的角度探讨了在英语听力课堂中使用交互活动的双重意义,即策略的互动和课堂参与者之间的互动,并且从教学实践出发,介绍在英语听力课堂上如何以培养运用听力策略为目的,以讨论协商、交流互动为形式,开展多方位、多层次、多形式、动态的交互活动。     

局部对称空间中具有平行平均曲率向量的子流行

设Nn p为n p维局部对称的完备流行,Mn为Nn p中具有平行平均曲率向量的紧致子流行。本文作者给出此类子流行的两个拼挤定理。     

《再别康桥》赏析

再别康桥》是现代诗人徐志摩的代表作 ,有着优美的意境 ,有着高超的技巧 ,有着很强的艺术感染力。赏析此诗 ,应从意境着手 ,才能把握全诗的思想和艺术     

The internet as a tool to learn a second language in a technical environment

Second language acquisition is a hard task for teachers, since to achieve the motivation from students to practice a language simulating a real context is very difficult. On the one hand, students are often influenced by their mother tongue and more when they are practising a second language with a partner from the same nationality. On the other, technology is part of our lives and teachers should use all the tools in order to motivate students to learn any topic. So, if we integrate technology in the methodology we use when teaching a second language and students can practise with international partners, the results can be surprising. Chats, scanning texts, games, filling forms, etc. are just some of the activities our students can do in order to improve their command of a second language and also these activities can be used by content teachers in order to complement content learning. In the present paper, we provide some examples of activities designed by collaborating with content teachers based on websites, and then we analyse the effect they produced on students. We contrast the methodology used to propose tasks based on websites and those based on texts, and finally, evaluate their effect on the motivation of students.     

The impact of relational markers on expository text comprehension in L1 and L2

This article reports on an experimentinvestigating the impact of causal discoursemarkers (connectives and signaling phrases) onthe comprehension of expository texts in L1 andL2. Although several psycholinguistic studieshave investigated the impact of connectives andlexical markers of text structure oncomprehension (i.e. off-line), there is noconsensus on the exact effect of explicitdiscourse markers on text understanding; threedifferent findings are reported in theliterature: markers would have a facilitatingeffect, an interfering effect or no effect atall. The first goal of this article is toclarify this problem of contradicting resultsby limiting the scope of the study to causalrelations, and to one specific text type:expository texts. Furthermore, the naturalnessof the experimental texts was controlled,readers did not need specific backgroundknowledge to understand the texts and theexperimental method consisted of open answerquestioning. Our second goal is to investigateto what extent a supposed effect of linguisticmarking depends on readers proficiency in afirst or second language.The experiment consisted in the reading of short expository texts in two languages, Dutchand French, which both functioned as L1 and L2.The results indicate that readers benefit fromthe presence of causal relational markers bothin L1 and in L2. Implications for (theoriesof) text processing are discussed, as well asfor the further insights in readingcomprehension in L1 and L2.