Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations

This study examined the developments in children’s externalizing problems and interest in reading during their first four years of school (Grades 1–4) and investigated whether this development predicted the children’s Grade 6 reading skills and educational aspirations. Data comprised (1) teachers’ ratings of externalizing problems and children’s (N = 642; 43% girls) self-ratings of their interest in reading, collected between Grades 1 and 4, and (2) measures of reading fluency and comprehension, and children’s self-reports of educational aspirations, collected at Grade 6. First, latent growth modeling showed that a higher level of externalizing problems in Grade 1 was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading. Second, a positive association between the initial level of interest in reading and a linear change in externalizing problems indicated that children with a lower interest in reading in Grade 1 were rated by teachers as exhibiting higher levels of externalizing problems, which nonetheless declined over the course of their first four years of school more than among other children. Third, a higher initial level of externalizing problems with a linear change in these problems across Grades 1–4 was a predictor of lower subsequent educational aspirations and poorer reading comprehension in Grade 6. Analysis of the indirect effects indicated that a higher level of externalizing problems was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading, which, in turn, was related to poorer future reading fluency and lower educational aspirations. The findings imply that problem behaviors are interlinked with academic skill development and motivation across the first six years of school.     

任务型教学在大学英语阅读教学中的应用

任务型语言学习理论是20世纪80年代外语教学法研究者和第二语言习得研究者在大量研究和实践的基础上提出的又一具有重要影响的语言学习理论和学习模式.探讨了任务型教学的内涵及优势:通过与传统教学途径的比较,分析了任务型阅读教学的活动阶段及其特点;从四个方面,重点论述了大学英语任务型阅读教学中任务设计应注意的问题.     

语用修辞在英语专业精读课中的应用

本文阐述了语用修辞学的研究内容,并将语用修辞学的分析方法引入到英语专业精读课中,指出从语用修辞学的视角来分析精读课文,能够帮助学生从整体上了解和掌握课文语篇,从而提高教学效果。     

浅析绿色化学实验室设计

化学实验室的环境污染问题是不可忽视的,必须防患于未然。为了减少化学实验产生的污染,必须要精选实验内容,改进实验方法,发展微型实验过程,妥善处理废弃物,建设绿色化学实验室。     

大学生阅读取向对高校图书馆馆藏建设的启示

大学生是高校图书馆的主要读者,大学生的阅读取向和高校图书馆馆藏建设息息相关。把握大学生阅读取向的动向,对高校图书馆馆藏建设有重要的意义。     

论绿色技术创新中的官产学合作——基于三重螺旋模型的分析

由于绿色技术创新存在外部经济性问题,仅把企业作为绿色技术创新的唯一主体具有很大的局限性。从三重螺旋模型理论看,绿色技术创新是企业、政府、大学等多元行为主体共同参与的系统过程,官产学三方相互合作、相互促进、互为因果形成一股＂三重螺旋＂的合力,推动着企业持续、有效地开展绿色技术创新活动。     

微型小说的绿色通道

凸显强烈生态忧患意识的生态微型小说的出现,为方兴未艾的微型小说走出了一条健康的"绿色通道":揭示现代社会文明的进程与自然之间的矛盾冲突,谴责人类破坏生态环境的野蛮行径,呼吁人们善待自然;摒弃"人类中心主义",渲染人类与自然和谐共处的美好境界,唱响生态保护的赞歌;展示资源匮乏的苦痛与无奈,讴歌节约能源、保护地球资源的善举,为可持续发展推波助澜。微型小说应该成为环境文学的轻骑兵,应高扬生态的旗帜,树立生态伦理信念,不仅洞察当今困扰人类的生态危机的严重局势,而且为解决这一危机积极地寻找出路。     

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。     

聋人阅读研究进展与动态

阅读对丧失听觉能力的聋人具有不同寻常的重要意义。本文通过回顾聋人阅读的现有研究 ,指出当前聋人阅读具有的特点、存在的问题和聋人阅读研究的动态。