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This study investigates the relationship between strategic reading instruction, the process of learning second language‐based reading strategies and English reading achievement for Thai university students of science and technology. In a course in reading general English texts for 16 weeks, 82 students were taught using a strategies‐based approach (experimental cohort), whereas another 82 students were taught using a traditional, teacher‐centred approach (control cohort). A pre‐test/post‐test research design was employed, and a portfolio approach was used to investigate the experimental cohort students' process of learning reading strategies. The results showed that the experimental cohort outperformed the control cohort in the post‐course standardised English test. The higher‐level reading proficiency learners in the experimental cohort were also found to be better than their low‐level peers at learning to use second language‐based reading strategies effectively. Implications are discussed for alternative instructional practice of reading in English as a foreign language (EFL).  相似文献   

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本文选取了人类一种常见情感——悲伤情感,从认知语言学的角度对悲伤情感在英汉两种语言中的概念隐喻方式进行比较分析,探讨了两种语言在悲伤情感的概念化过程中的异同,最终构建了悲伤情感的隐喻生成机制以指导语言学习者如何运用隐喻语言来表达情感。  相似文献   

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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(3):447-459
ABSTRACT

The capacity to use language is unique from one individual to another. This could also depend on the individual's exposure to a language. This article aims to contribute to the growing area of research on language anxiety by exploring the extent to which language anxiety affects learners’ performance in learning in multilingual classrooms, especially African learners who are learning English as a second language. Learners, especially in the Intermediate Phase in South Africa who are learning in a second language for the first time, may experience a certain level of anxiety because that language is foreign to them. The discussion idea is further advanced by exploring the use more than one language in teaching in order to promote learner autonomy in the learning process. The conclusion will try to provide possible means to deal with language anxiety amongst learners in order to improve learner performance.  相似文献   

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Structured reflection on practical teaching experiences may help pre‐service teachers to integrate their learning and analyze their actions to become more effective learners and teachers. This study reports on 12 pre‐service English as a second language (ESL) teachers’ individual tutoring of learners of English language writing. The data of the study are the writing journal entries that the pre‐service ESL teachers maintained during their tutoring experience. These journals had common elements: all were used by the pre‐service teachers to consider what funds of knowledge they bring to their teaching of ESL learners, to evaluate their roles as writers, learners and teachers and to reflect on the educational, social and cultural implications of teaching writing in English to speakers of other languages. This article describes ways in which both native and non‐native English speaking pre‐service teachers adapted their instruction to meet the particular needs of individual ESL writers and what they learned in the process. It provides insight regarding the value of using tutoring and reflection generally in teacher education and specifically in the preparation of teachers of ESL.  相似文献   

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This paper reports on a successful attempt to use the portfolio as a sole assessment tool for an upper level language arts course at an English‐medium university in Lebanon. Over four consecutive years in the spring semester, the teacher/researcher devised a special syllabus based on the teaching/learning of text discourses and other language tasks emphasizing skills to improve the English language of the learners. Only students’ portfolios were used to evaluate students’ work. The learners, majoring in Education or English, worked on various language tasks. They presented and assessed their work according to rubrics. Learners had to self‐reflect on each task, have a one‐to‐one conference with the class teacher, and assign a letter grade to their work. Results indicated that though using only portfolios for assessment purposes was a rather difficult task, it was still more effective than traditional assessment. Working on self‐assessed portfolios actively engaged learners in the learning process.  相似文献   

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Due to the rapid development of information technology, web‐based learning has become a dominant trend. That is, learners can often learn anytime and anywhere without being restricted by time and space. Autonomic learning primarily occurs in web‐based learning environments, and self‐regulated learning (SRL) is key to autonomic learning performance. Moreover, sustained attention to web‐based learning activities can be challenging for students. Therefore, a web‐based reading annotation system with an attention‐based self‐regulated learning mechanism (ASRLM), which is based on brainwave detection, is designed to enhance the sustained attention of learners while reading annotated English texts online, and thereby promote online reading performance. In total, 126 Grade 7 students in four classes at a junior high school in New Taipei City, Taiwan, are the participants. Among the four classes, two classes are randomly distributed to the experimental group and the other two classes are randomly distributed to the control group. The experimental group utilizes the ASRLM to support their reading of annotated English texts online, whereas the control group is not supported by the ASRLM while reading annotated English texts online. Experimental results show that sustained attention and reading comprehension of the experimental group are better than those of the control group. Moreover, the web‐based reading system with ASRLM support promotes the sustained attention and reading comprehension of female learners more than those of male learners while reading annotated English texts online. Additionally, learners with high‐SRL ability in the experimental group have better sustained attention and reading comprehension than those learners with low‐SRL ability. Furthermore, the sustained attention and reading comprehension of the experimental group are strongly correlated, and the duration of sustained attention strongly predicts their reading comprehension performance.  相似文献   

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<正>In the second language acquisition and English as Second Language learning(ESL)process,each teacher inevitably finds various kinds of language mistakes that learners made.In the process of foreign language learning,learners tend to make  相似文献   

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学业情绪动态转换指教学或学习过程中与学习者学习相关的各种情绪体验之间的相互转换。对学业情绪的研究不是静态地集中于某一种情绪,如焦虑、厌烦、困惑、好奇、挫折感等,而是在考虑学习情境、互动对象和学习材料之间关系的基础上研究学习者的情绪变化。学业情绪动态转换研究对学习者学习及其持续发展具有重要的影响。本文在相关实验研究的基础上,总结了不同情绪之间的转换关系、研究情境、研究方法以及学业情绪的表情特征。未来研究中如果对学习者的个体差异、学习情境以及不同学业情绪的调节方式之间的关系进一步探索,可以更进一步促进情绪对学习的积极作用。  相似文献   

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在第二语言教学中,情感因素对语言学习的影响越来越受到重视,其中焦虑对第二语言课堂学习的影响最大。课堂焦虑按其对第二语言学习的影响可分为两种:退缩性焦虑和促进性焦虑。作者认为促进性焦虑可促进学习者对外语的学习,退缩性焦虑影响学习者对外语的学习。退缩性焦虑往往对语言学习产生障碍,影响学习者潜力的发挥。作者从两个教学实例入手,讨论了焦虑对外语学习者的影响,并提出了有效的教学对策及建议。  相似文献   

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我国学前儿童学习英语已经普及,学前儿童的情感和智力发育尚不成熟,在外语学习过程中比其他学习者更容易受外语学习焦虑的影响。为及时有效疏导学前儿童的外语学习焦虑,教学前一定要对所教学前儿童的认知和情感有充分了解,教学中要创设一个宽松愉快的学习环境,对待儿童应宽容待错、含蓄反馈,教师行为应有移情效应、威信效应和期望效应。  相似文献   

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Cognitive styles have been regarded as a crucial factor that affects the effectiveness of web-based learning (WBL). Previous research indicated that educational settings that match with students' cognitive styles can enhance students' learning performance, which is, however, linked to their emotion. Various physiological signals can be applied to measure emotion but the pulse is perhaps the most effective indicator. Thus, we conduct an exploratory research, which looks for a link between emotion and the matching/mismatching instructional approach with the condition of cognitive styles through a continuous pulse rate monitoring. The matching/mismatching instructional approach was delivered via a WBL system, which includes an index version and map version. The pulses of individual learners are collected by using a non-intrusive sensor. Our results indicate that the matching condition enables learners to feel more positive emotions than the mismatching condition, and is also linked to better learning performance.  相似文献   

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As English increasingly becomes the international language, many ministerial and educational organisations have identified the need to improve the competence of Thai students in speaking English. While there is significant research devoted to developing software tools to support the teaching of English as a second language, they are mostly concerned with adult learners. This project focuses on addressing the need to improve the teaching of English as a second language to primary school children with hearing impairments. This paper presents the development of an educational software tool referred to as the Total Communication with Animation Dictionary (TCAD), which supports learners in the acquisition and retention of new English lexical knowledge and is based on the theoretical approaches of Total Communication and situated learning. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCAD in improving vocabulary acquisition and retention. Early results are promising with increased learner engagement and performance compared with traditional approaches.  相似文献   

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In this review, we explore the notion of teaching science to English language learners (ELLs) as a balancing act between simultaneously focusing on language and content development, on the one hand, and between structuring instruction and focusing on student learning processes, on the other hand. This exploration is conducted through the lens of a theoretical framework embedded in the Science Writing Heuristic approach, an approach exemplifying immersive orientation to argument-based inquiry. Three learning processes (learning through the language of science, learning about the language of science and living the language of science) and three classroom structures (collective zone of proximal development, symmetric power and trust relationships and teacher as decision-maker) are explored in relation to learning theories and empirical findings from second language acquisition and science, multicultural and teacher education bodies of work. Three themes – negotiation, embeddedness and non-threatening learning environments – to inform ELL science education emerged from the review.  相似文献   

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This article demonstrates how evidence related to performance in computer mediated communication (CMC) can be used as a vehicle for researching pupils' thinking about using and learning a foreign language. The analysis is based on a qualitative study of pupils from two contrasting schools who had taken part in a multinational CMC project involving learners of French and English as a foreign language. The analysis focuses on the pupils' explanations and intuitions about their decisions with regard to two areas of their interaction in particular: code‐switching and pronominal address. The findings suggest that the English learners of French had an implicit set of communicative priorities in which interpersonal objectives tended to dominate over ideational objectives. Evidence from the study indicates the need for further research‐informed educational development in two areas: a reappraisal of the framework for foreign language teaching in England on the basis of greater emphasis on second language (L2) use within the framework; and more developed theoretical understanding of pupil cognition in relation to foreign language learning.  相似文献   

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初中生在英语学习过程中大多存在一定程度的焦虑,而方言较重地区由于受方言及相对落后的教学条件等客观因素影响,初中生英语学习的焦虑度普遍偏高。豫南地区属于方言较重的区域之一,当地初中生们深受英语学习焦虑困扰,大多表现为英语学习兴趣较低、学习策略掌握不足,英语学习焦虑严重干扰了豫南地区初中生英语学习的进程和效果。因此,需要坚持不懈地纠正初中生英语学习中的错误习惯,培养正确发音规则;提高英语会话能力,克服口语障碍;转变学习心理,教会初中生如何正确选择英语学习策略;规范考试内容和形式,引导初中生树立正确的考试观,减少考试焦虑,帮助该地区初中生提高英语学习成效。  相似文献   

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张学仪 《海外英语》2011,(8):127-129
以我校旅游英语专业学生为调查对象,着重调查影响英语口语输出的因素,结果表明:焦虑是影响英语口语输出的主要情感障碍;结合心理学和二语习得理论上有关焦虑的研究成果,分析了学习者形成语言焦虑的原因,并提出了在旅游英语口语输出过程中降低学生这一心理障碍的对策。  相似文献   

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English listening proficiency is always the most difficult part for English learners as the second language especially in China-mainland. Meanwhile, English teacher always take challenges in how to teach student the skills. This paper studies different learners and their different learning type, then put forward 8 necessary factors which should be concluded in the whole teaching step.  相似文献   

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Early childhood classrooms characterized by a predominance of second language learners from a wide mix of language backgrounds have emerged in unprecedented numbers on the American urban scene, lending urgency to the question: What happens when such diverse language learners are increasingly each others' only available peer resource for language learning in the classroom? This article highlights peer support for “getting into English” in one such setting—an ESL kindergarten where the children came from eight different language backgrounds and the teacher was the only native English speaker. Over 6 months of participant observation using qualitative, sociolinguistic methodology, the researcher documented the range of contexts in which case study children came to use English, and the efforts they and their teacher made to understand each other and be understood. In informal contexts for peer talk, children of like and different backgrounds served as resources for each other's use of English. They helped each other begin to use English among a broadening network of peers, for an expanding variety of purposes, and—at least to some extent—with more precision. Moreover, they pushed each other to elaborate and clarify their English. A model of peer collaboration is explored to take into account how children's evolving social relationships served as an impetus for talk in English. Implications for research and practice are discussed.  相似文献   

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This paper uses in‐depth interview data to explore aspects of the lives of non‐native speaking English educators working in the state education system in Sri Lanka. In so doing the research focus is on the educators themselves and the paper will discuss such issues as: careers as English teachers—motives for entering teaching, career progression, becoming a teacher educator; professional self‐development; beliefs about teaching, learning and teacher education; and the wider socio‐educational context of English teaching in Sri Lanka. It is hoped that the paper will offer insights into the development of non‐native speaking TESOL teachers—by making more visible features of practice in particular contexts—as well as providing ‘snapshots’ of teaching and learning in state systems beyond the western world which may inform thinking more broadly about international English language teaching and learning.  相似文献   

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Many institutions encourage formative computer‐based assessment (CBA), yet competing priorities mean that learners are necessarily selective about what they engage in. So how can we motivate them to engage? Can we facilitate learners to take more control of shaping their learning experience? To explore this, the Learning with Interactive Assessment (LINA) project, a small‐scale study, trialed a selection of online, interactive question features designed to increase motivation, particularly of work‐based learners, and to enhance learners' ability to self‐regulate their own learning experience. We present initial findings on learner perceptions of: (1) a confidence indicator tool—for learners to indicate their confidence that their answer will be correct before answering a question; (2) a learning log—for learners to insert reflections or view system‐recorded information about their learning pathway; and (3) question feedback—for displaying a range of author comments. Themes emerged relating to motivational, behavioural and cognitive factors, including risk taking and skills in self‐assessment. A serendipitous finding highlights learners' frequently not reading onscreen feedback and presents perceptions on when feedback becomes most useful. Motivators and barriers to engagement and self‐regulation are discussed in relation to principles of best feedback practice.  相似文献   

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