真实实用有趣易学——试析中等职业学校英语教材《走向未来》的特点

改革职业中学英语教材的编写理念、内容、形式,以及教与学的方法,是提高教学质量至关重要的一个环节。英语教材《走向未来》(Ready to Go)在突出语言的真实性、实用性、趣味性等方面,与我国现行的各种版本的中等职业学校英语教材相比较,具有一定的创新性。它既没有脱离基础英语的范畴,又突出了职业教育的特点,是一套与我国当前经济发展相适应的、与时俱进的职业学校英语教材。     

英语全球化语境中的高中英语文化教学

《普通高中英语课程标准(实验)》首次将“文化意识”列为五大教学目标之一,充分体现了文化教学在英语教学中的必要性和重要性。在英语全球化的今天,我们应充分意识到英语作为一种国际通用语种的作用和地位,在教学中合理配置不同文化教学素材,采取对比、反思、整合的文化教学方法,着力培养学生对文化差异的觉察能力、理解能力,使其最终具备完善的人格、自身文化认同感以及得体的跨文化交际能力。     

解决短期高峰需求的成本效益策略

For most open universities, in fact for most universities, there will arise occasions when some online activities will have to be completed by all students in a very short time interval. These occasions usually result in a great rush to get online as quickly as possible; the rush is often made worst by the limited good choices on offer such that usually only the earliest can get the best. Choosing and confirming elective subjects, when only a limited number for each are offered, on a first-come-first-served basis is an example.At the Open University Malaysia the rush occurs when confirming offered subjects and choosing face-to-face meeting timetable. Most students rushed to be earliest to ensure choice slots in the timetable are obtained.Available I. T. resources such as Internet bandwidth and servers cannot cope with these short-term sustained peak demands. Unless these peak demands are met, however, online services will slow down drastically resulting in long queues of users waiting to be served. Providing excess capacity, if at all possible, to ensure these short duration peak demands can be met would not be cost-effective since most of the time these resources are not utilised. This paper will look at some cost-effective approaches to meeting these short-term peak demands.     

试论大众文化对儿童文学成人化的影响

儿童文学的成人化在近年来已是不争的事实,在作品、作家、读者和儿童世界四方面都有了明显的表现。而儿童以及儿童文学的成人化,正是由于大众文化的商业特性、大众传媒的高度发达和消费文化的特点所决定的。但我们仍应该适当地保护儿童的“不知情权”。     

移动辅助语言学习在英语口语教学中的作用

随着"互联网+"时代的深入,移动辅助语言学习已广泛应用于中国大学生的英语学习,是否能有效提高学生的口语能力仍需实证研究验证.研究以英语口语学习APP"FiF口语训练系统"为例,根据雅思口语评分标准,分析118名学生的口语前后测得分差值与任务参与度的相关性.研究发现,受试者在总分、发音、流畅程度、连贯性以及词汇量方面的评...     

Blended learning in higher education: professional development in a Hong Kong university

ABSTRACT

Online learning has become a ubiquitous part of the educational landscape and how teachers are supported in developing approaches to teaching online is a fundamental aspect of the students’ learning experience. Based on the implementation of a professional development course on becoming an online teacher offered in a blended learning mode at one university in Hong Kong, this article proposes that offering this type of professional development in a blended mode is very effective in facilitating enhanced usage of the university’s learning management system. In a blended mode, teachers are actively engaged with blended learning and were found to make more extensive use of features/tools in Blackboard after they attended the professional development course. Results support that offering professional development in a blended mode provides teachers with an authentic student perspective, at the same time as they take guided steps in the teacher’s role in blended learning.     

保送生制度的变迁与改革

保送生制度自执行之日起,每年都为高校输送了拔尖人才,但因其中介入的人为因素较多,也饱受舆论轰击,随着高考"阳光工程"的建设,保送生制度在阳光的照耀下将再次焕发出蓬勃生机。     

学习型社会的构建

学习型社会是我国社会今后发展的基本方向。构建我国的学习型社会应遵循一定的基本原则，主要通过建设、完善城市学习型社区和农村学习型社区来实现。     

高职学生学习评价的探索

学生的学习评价对教学产生直接的影响，人们期望这个影响是正面的、积极的。本文分析了高职学生学习评价的现状和不良影响，同时根据现状提出了“过程与结果并重，多种测评形式并存．减少偶然性增大必然性”学习评价的基本思想．并针对不同课程提出了相应的评价办法。