雅思听力测试的真实性对大学英语听力教学的启示

在英语教学中,听力是其综合技能中的关键部分。雅思以交际语言测试为指导思想,在听力材料的内容和形式及答题方面表现出高度的真实性,为大学英语听力教学在听力材料、练习方式和教学模式方面提供了很有价值的借鉴意义。     

浅析“海外本科直通车”项目的雅思听力教学

雅思听力教学在雅思考试教学中占有重要位置,是雅思考试教学的一个重要环节,但却是雅思学习中相对薄弱的环节。本文作者针对＂海外直通车＂项目的雅思听力教学现状,结合雅思听力的解题技巧,对如何改进雅思听力教学进行初步探讨。     

A Study on the Impact and Referential Significance of IELTS to China’s Education System

IELTS is the shortcut to the Commonwealth countries, whether for study or for immigration, the test has been becom?ing an important key to the gate of Commonwealth. The quantity of examinee keeps a g...     

Policies of global English tests: test-takers’ perspectives on the IELTS retake policy

Globalized English proficiency tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are increasingly playing the role of gatekeepers in a globalizing world. Although the use of the IELTS as a ‘policy tool’ for making decisions in the areas of study, work and migration impacts on test-takers' lives and life chances, not much is known about its own policy and policy logic. With the growing call for listening to test-takers' voices, specific policy aspects of the test have recently been scrutinized. This article seeks to contribute to this area by drawing on test-takers' perspectives on the IELTS retake policy and developing an understanding of how policies of global English tests are perceived, interpreted and given new meanings by its key stakeholders. Although the truth-value of the emic views of test-takers may be debated, their experiences and perceptions problematize the reliability claims of the testing agency by locating commercial motives at the center of their policy and thereby raising theoretical, professional and ethical questions.     

雅思听力对大学英语听力教学的启示

文章浅析当前大学英语听力教学中存在的一些问题,结合雅思考试中听力科的特点,阐述了雅思听力对大学英语听力教学改革的启示,提出解决英语听力教学问题的一些建议.     

雅思与托福交际测试特点与有用性的对比分析

雅思与托福iBT皆是交际测试理论实践的先驱和典范。从Weir(2003)所归纳的交际测试特征以及Bachman和Palmer(1996)的交际测试有用性评价原则出发,对这两种大型语言测试分项进行交际测试对比和评价,以检测两者在应用交际测试理论的彻底性。研究结果显示两种语言测试在各项交际测试理论应用中各有侧重,互有千秋。     

雅思阅读list of headings题型对大学英语教学的导向

针对目前大学英语阅读语篇教学存在的问题及其消极影响,从测试对教与学的反拨作用出发,对比全国英语四级阅读测试,通过介绍雅思阅读list of headings题型的效度,着重论述测试中引入该题型对大学英语语篇阅读教学具有正面的反拨作用。     

Developing academic literacy through a decentralised model of English language provision

ABSTRACT

Students entering English-medium universities frequently struggle to cope with the language demands of their degree programmes, despite having met the English language entry conditions stipulated by their receiving institutions. This can have significant repercussions for the teaching-learning process, for the student experience and for universities’ reputations. Most universities, therefore, have in place some form of in-sessional English language support to develop students’ language proficiency. Such provision tends to be centralised and to offer English for general academic purposes rather than language development that responds in a more nuanced way to the particular literacy needs of students’ disciplines. In this article we report on an alternative, decentralised model of language support, implemented in a School of Nursing and Midwifery, and which seeks to develop students’ competency in the language skills required for their Nursing studies and professional practice. Results to date have been encouraging and provide further evidence that such tailored provision offers a potentially fruitful language development strategy.     

高考英语听力测试与雅思听力测试题型对比研究

文章对我国高考英语听力测试与英国雅思(IELTS)听力测试(学术类)的题型进行了对比研究。通过把雅思常用的五种听力测试题型应用于高考英语听力,以探讨是否有的听力测试题型比其他题型能更好地测出高考考生的英语听力理解能力。研究结果显示:所采用的五种不同的听力测试题型的测试结果呈统计上显著性差异;简答、选择和句子填空题比信息转移和配对题型的效度更高,其中简答题型的效度最高,配对题型的效度最低。     

基于雅思反拨效应的中外合作项目英语教学改革--以桂林电子科技大学为例

雅思反拨效应作用于教师、学习者和教材体系,对于中外合作项目英语教学改革有重要意义。基于雅思反拨效应的中外合作项目英语教学改革能促进学生语言水平和交际能力提升,促进教师的专业发展、促进中外合作英语课程建设及合作项目国内段英语语言教学水平的提升,继而促进中外合作项目的可持续发展,实现教师教学理念的全面更新、学生学习策略与学习主动性的提高等。