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Study abroad programmes for teacher education students are increasingly being evaluated to determine their effectiveness in achieving intended outcomes. There is a danger, however, that such evaluations will ignore valuable but unintended and serendipitous outcomes of such programmes. This paper investigates an example of such an outcome, the development of a critical perspective towards media constructions of ‘otherness’. In 2002 a group of Australian teacher education students undertook an intensive in‐country Indonesian language programme. The course included mornings of formal immersion language classes and afternoons of cultural experiences with local students. Throughout and following the programme the students were interviewed and wrote about their changing perceptions of Indonesia and the implications of the experience for their professional development. Soon after their return Indonesian–Australian relations were challenged by the terrorist attack in the tourist heart of Bali. Two hundred and two people, including many Australian tourists, were killed in the bomb blast. In some cases the students were personally acquainted with Australian victims. As part of their reflection upon their in‐country experience the students were asked to comment upon whether, and in what ways, the Bali bombings might have affected their perceptions of Indonesia. The students were highly critical of the ethnocentric and stereotyped way in which the Australian media depicted Indonesians in their reporting of the bombing. These students were concerned with the effect that such media constructions might have upon Australian attitudes towards Indonesia and were prepared to challenge such media constructions in the classroom. 相似文献
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The title of Western Australia's Deadly Ways to Learn project, an action research project aimed at facilitating and enhancing the teaching and learning of Australian Aboriginal students, was inspired by Aboriginal English in which 'deadly' means 'really good'. Aboriginal English is the first dialect of most Indigenous Australians and differs in fundamental and consistent ways from Standard Australian English which is the language of instruction in most Australian schools. Accordingly, most Aboriginal students receive schooling in a second dialect. Deadly Ways to Learn brought this dilemma into focus and engaged teachers and Indigenous Education Officers (IEOs) from several government, Catholic and independent schools in action research to develop two-way bi-dialectal teaching practices that would support literacy acquisition among Aboriginal students. Getting teachers and IEOs to accept the existence and validity of Aboriginal English was a huge task. The real challenge, however, was getting teachers to respect the sociocultural perspectives and value systems that Aboriginal English is used to express. Teachers and partner IEOs jointly participated in a series of collaborative forums in which candid discussions about culture and linguistics were carefully facilitated. Over a relatively short period, profound changes were observed and self-reported among participants. This paper outlines the collaborative processes employed in the project, qualitative changes that occurred among participants and key findings about two-way bi-dialectal teaching. 相似文献
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This paper reports a research project developed in partnership with the Principal and Leadership Team of an Australian secondary school. It monitored a school-based initiative designed to address the underachievement of male students. Students in Year 9 selected single-gender or coeducational classes in mathematics and English during the second half of a school year. Student scores in standardized tests and school-based assessment in these subjects were obtained before and after the establishment of the initiative. Results indicate no significant difference in mathematics achievement that can be attributed to gender or class composition. However, scores in school-based English improved for students in single-gender classes. Improvement for girls in single-gender classes was greater than that for boys in single-gender classes. 相似文献
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This paper presents the qualitative results of a study of students’ reading of multimodal texts in an interactive, online
environment. The study forms part of a larger project which addressed image–language interaction as an important dimension
of language pedagogy and assessment for students growing up in a multimedia digital age. Thirty-two Year 6 students representing
a sample of high, medium and low performers on an Australian state-wide school literacy test were surveyed about their internet
usage and interviewed using a structured protocol while working online through a selection of materials from an educational
website. Findings from the earlier stages of the project indicated that different types of image-text relations vary in the
degree of difficulty they pose for students’ reading comprehension. This phase of the project extended the analysis of image-text
relations to online, interactive texts. Student performance on online reading tasks and interview data are used to illustrate
some of the complexities students encounter when reading online, and how this may vary with factors such as their day-to-day
literacy experiences and levels of engagement. The results have implications for literacy pedagogy and assessing the reading
of web-based texts. 相似文献
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为改变目标单一的以知识传授为主的教学方法,构建体现项目课程特性和多情景融合模式的新型教学关系,紧扣"多情景融合和项目导入式"的课程改革目标,开展机械类专业机械制图课程教学改革研究与实践,探索课程教学的整体优化方案,突出学生综合素质的提高和创新能力的培养。 相似文献
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分级教学的必要性和目前的不可行性 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
龙纲要 《湖南师范大学教育科学学报》2005,4(3):127-128,F003
根据二语习得理论，习得者的个体差异在二语习得过程中直接影响着二语习得的效果。缩小个体差异将会直接提高我们的课堂教学效果，这就决定了分级教学的必要性。在对吉首大学2002级的全体学生实施分级教学改革后，并通过对他们进行的调查、研究，还将他们与实施传统教学的2001、2003级的自然班级进行了对比分析，其结论是：分级教学是必要的，但在目前的教育理念和考试模式之下尚不可行。 相似文献
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Michael Haugh 《高等教育研究与发展》2016,35(4):727-740
International students have continued to be the focus of simplistic stereotyping in media discourse where they are frequently identified as one of the forces behind declining academic standards in Australian universities. Their English language skills, in particular, have continued to be the focus of debate both in the mainstream media and in higher education research and policy. It is argued in this paper, however, that such debates do not sufficiently acknowledge the moral and affective complexity of the so-called ‘English problem’ amongst international students in Australian universities. Drawing from an analysis of small group interviews with international students, domestic students and university staff, the beliefs and experiences of various parties about the English language skills of international students are examined. A key finding from this analysis is that the English language skills of international students, and their concomitant interactions with others, can be the object of both complaints and troubles talk. These complaints or troubles can be either ratified or resisted by those participants. The difficulties international students may experience in using English thus have complex moral and affective consequences. The way in which the so-called English problem in Australian universities is generally couched as one of objective, measurable deficiency on the part of international students arguably neglects the moral and affective complexity of the difficulties facing international students. This neglect leads, in turn, to an impoverished understanding of the English language capabilities of international students. 相似文献
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Annika Lantz-Andersson 《Education and Information Technologies》2018,23(2):705-724
The aim of this study is to gain insights into students’ language use on social media as part of the specific linguistic activities of second language (L2) learning, including development of sociopragmatic competence. Two Facebook groups were introduced in different English-as-L2 classes that were part of an international collaborative project comprising secondary schools in Colombia, Finland, Sweden and Taiwan. The study is theoretically grounded in sociocultural perspectives on learning, and the methods involve logging the students’ linguistic interactions in the social media groups. The analysis of the empirical material explored how the students framed the activities by different types of keying in their choice of linguistic repertoires. The findings show that the social media context offered a casual space for communication in which the students, by attentively attuning to the local coordinated framing, used diverse linguistic repertoires to play with the language. In instances of upkeyed framings, the language play was not only used with pragmatic intentions, but also as a means for various socializing purposes. In conclusion, it is suggested that language play on social media can be seen as a valuable activity in developing sociopragmatic competence to prepare students for L2 use outside of school. 相似文献
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Robert B. Burns 《高等教育研究与发展》1991,10(1):61-77
Overseas students bring to Australia a very different cultural, social and intellectual experience from that which awaits them. Reviews of previous studies suggest that their beliefs, values and attitudes to knowledge, to styles of learning and study can lead to study shock. A questionnaire survey of a sample of 133 first year overseas students mainly from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, most of whom were studying for a Bachelor of Business degree, and 76 Australian born first year students mainly of British and European origin from the same classes, showed that compared to local students the overseas group had significantly greater difficulties adjusting to academic requirements, particularly with regard to managing the demands of study, specifically study methods, independent learning, language skills, participation and time management. The overseas students manifested significantly higher degrees of various stress indicators than did the local students. More academic and counselling support and resources for this increasing intake of overseas students should be provided. 相似文献
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大学英语视听说课中的任务教学活动设计 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
培养大学生的英语语言交际能力一直是教学大纲所强调的;作为一种旨在使学生在课堂上通过交际互动促进语言习得的教学模式,任务型教学是很值得在课堂中推广的。因此,设计新的任务型教学活动是当前英语教师面临的实际问题和当务之急。本文根据视听说课的特点及现状,对任务型教学活动的设计因素和具体方法做有益的尝试。 相似文献
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Richard L. Sparks Marjorie Artzer Jon Patton Leonore Ganschow Karen Miller Dorothy J. Hordubay Geri Walsh 《Annals of dyslexia》1998,48(1):239-270
In this study, the benefits of multisensory structured language (MSL) instruction in Spanish were examined. Participants were
students in high-school-level Spanish attending girls’ preparatory schools. Of the 55 participants, 39 qualified as at-risk
for foreign language learning difficulties and 16 were deemed not-at-risk. The at-risk students were assigned to one of three
conditions: (1) MSL—multisensory Spanish instruction in self-contained classrooms (n=14); (2) SC—traditional Spanish instruction provided in self-contained classrooms (n=11); and (3) NSC—traditional Spanish instruction in regular (not self-contained) Spanish classes (n=14). Not-at-risk students (n=16) received traditional Spanish instruction in regular classes similar to the instruction provided to the NSC group.
All three at-risk groups made significant gains over time on some native language skills regardless of teaching method. The
MSL group also made significant gains on a foreign language aptitude measure. The MSL group and the not-at-risk group made
greater gains than the two other at-risk groups on foreign language aptitude and native language measures of reading comprehension,
word recognition, and pseudoword reading.
Although most at-risk learners achieved an “expected” level of foreign language proficiency after two years of instruction,
significant group differences were found. On measures of oral and written foreign language proficiency, the MSL and not-at-risk
groups scored significantly higher than the at-risk groups instructed using traditional methods. After two years of Spanish
instruction, no differences in foreign language proficiency were found between the MSL group and the not-at-risk group. 相似文献
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张红波 《宁波教育学院学报》2008,10(2):98-100
通过对102名高一学生的调查,对其写作焦虑及英语作文成绩的相关性、影响英语写作成绩的前十项写作焦虑因素、男女生写作成绩与写作焦虑因素之间的差异进行了调查,采用相关分析t、检验和回归分析探讨了它们之间的关系。结果表明,受试在英语写作中体验到较高的写作焦虑,写作焦虑值高的受试作文分数低,男生的焦虑程度远高于女生的写作焦虑值。 相似文献
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Despite the contemporary policy rhetoric of global citizenry and the importance of languages and intercultural capabilities, language learning in Australian schools struggles for recognition and support. The curriculum marginalisation of languages, however, is uneven, affecting some school sectors more than others. In this article, we examine the provision of languages in two government comprehensive high schools, both low socio-economic status, located in urban areas in New South Wales, Australia’s largest state. They are termed ‘residual’ high schools because they cater for the students remaining in the local schools while others attend either private or selective government high schools. We provide a qualitative picture of language provision in these two schools from the perspectives of key stakeholders – school principals, teachers, students and parents. We also draw on observational data of language classes. The aim is to provide, within a largely social class framework, an understanding of the state of language provision in these schools. We argue that currently students in these schools are experiencing unequal access to the linguistic and cultural capital associated with language learning relative to students in more privileged communities and schools. 相似文献
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杜彦玲 《辽宁师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2001,24(3):47-48
俄语是形式变化复杂的语言，其中名词是词形变化繁多、容易出现错误的词类之一，为了便于学生更好地掌握名词的变化，我们从学生的言语实践入手，针对学生言语中的典型错误从词性的判别、名词的数、名词的变格等方面进行分析，探索其中的规律，为今后的教学服务。 相似文献
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Tracey Bretag Rowena Harper Michael Burton Cath Ellis Philip Newton Karen van Haeringen 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2019,44(5):676-691
This paper reports on findings from a large Australian research project that explored the relationship between contract cheating and assessment design. Using survey responses from 14,086 students and 1147 educators at eight universities, a multivariate analysis examined the influence of a range of factors on the likelihood that different assessment types would prompt considerations of contract cheating in students. Perceptions of likelihood were highest among students who speak a language other than English at home. Perceptions of likelihood were also higher among students who reported there to be lots of opportunities to cheat, and amongst students who were dissatisfied with the teaching and learning environment. Perceptions of likelihood for certain assessment types were also higher in commerce and engineering than in any other discipline. Overall, four assessment types were perceived by students to be the least likely to be outsourced, however these are also the least likely to be set by educators. The analysis indicates that educators are more likely to use these assessment tasks when they report positively on organisational support for teaching and learning. 相似文献
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In recent years, Chinese language and culture shows its amazing charm in the world and is strongly attracting foreign students to study in China. In order to meet the various needs of students, many universities set up long-term classes, various Chinese learning classes, short-term assault strengthen experience classes and interest classes, etc. With groups of students continue to expand, is the teaching of foreign language study becomes more and more important. The Chinese song conversion method can and should serve as an assistant for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. 相似文献
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This case study profiles eight international PhD students and describes the process of the construction and negotiation of their social and institutional identities in an Australian university. Audio-recorded informal conversations of the students highlight the role of social membership, staffroom interactions and language in the construction of institutional identities. The impact of multiple identity transitions experienced by new international students is described. The data analysis uses a sociocultural perspective of second language in use, which reflects the negotiation of power, space and identity in informal multicultural institutional encounters. The article provides insight into the ways transitions are experienced by international postgraduate students. Findings also include a critique of the negatively loaded stereotype of the ‘international student’ in Australian universities and the way it underplays the heterogeneity of student experience. 相似文献
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Suzanne Carrington Derek Bland Rebecca Spooner-Lane Emma White 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(7):714-731
In this article we report on data analysed from a student project about attitudes to school and student perception of engagement and disengagement. The data were collected by students in an Australian study that employed the Young People as Researchers model. Middle year students devised and administered a questionnaire to students in grade 8, 9 and 10 at a secondary school in Australia. A total of 239 students completed the questionnaire. The students completed the initial analysis, which was followed by a more detailed analysis by the authors of this article. The findings support the work of American, British and Australian researchers about the factors that influence engagement and disengagement from schooling. The reported outcomes from the student work and the secondary analysis indicate that students do have the capacity to undertake valid and meaningful research and can make informed contributions to school improvement and student engagement. 相似文献
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Emily Miller Tahereh Ziaian Adrian Esterman 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2018,22(4):339-359
Schools have the potential for significant impact on the lives of Australian students with a refugee background. Many of these young people speak at least one language other than English, have previous histories of interrupted schooling or have experienced trauma during times of displacement and forced migration. Combined with the further challenges of settling within an unfamiliar cultural frame, these students experience a range of circumstances which are not present for many of their Australian-born peers. Australian students with a refugee background have diverse skill and abilities, with many showing independence and resilience. Opportunities for academic learning and development of social capital within the school context can be enhanced with relevant pedagogy and policy which draws upon and highlights the positive individual qualities that these students exhibit. Australian school practices are shaped by both state and federal education policies, which are interpreted and applied by individual schools within their own frameworks. This review considers recent literature on the experiences of Australian students with a refugee background as they participate in schooling, with a focus on the ways in which schools provide either opportunities or barriers to engagement. 相似文献
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Carol Tomlinson‐Keasey Rod Brawley Barbara Peterson 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1986,33(1):49-55
An interactive videodisc system designed to teach language concepts to deaf students was evaluated in a classroom trial. An experimental group of 18 students spent 60 twenty‐minute sessions over a five‐month period learning language concepts by interacting with the system while a control group of 16 students learned the same concepts in their regular classroom setting. Both groups made significant progress from pre‐ to post‐test on two criterion‐referenced testsdeveloped by project staff. Experimental students were enthusiastic about the videodisc, felt that their language skills had improved, and were anxious to continue working with the system. 相似文献