EFL teachers’ perceptions of English language policy at the elementary level in Taiwan     

Ya‐Chen Su 《Educational studies》2006,32(3):265-283

Due in large part to the trends towards economic globalization, English has become the most widely disseminated and ubiquitous international language. The purpose of the study was to investigate what Taiwan’s EFL teachers at the elementary level believe about the policy of English as a compulsory subject and how they perceive the benefits and obstacles of the policy’s implementation. Ten elementary English teachers in Tainan City and its suburban areas participated in this study. Data were collected through teachers’ interviews, classroom observation and document analysis. Results found that all ten teachers agreed with the policy for English as a compulsory subject at the elementary level. They observed both positive and negative sides of this top‐down policy. Classroom observation and interview data revealed that EFL teachers had to plan their English classes with the constraints on a large class of students with mixed levels of proficiency, limited teaching hours and resources. Parents’ expectations of and attitudes towards English learning also became an obstacle.  相似文献   

英语教学中学生口语能力的培养     

章文君 《金华职业技术学院学报》2001,1(1):120-121

总结高职院校学生英语口语方面存在的问题和原因，具体论述英语教学中学生口语能力培养的关键问题及训练方法。提倡转变传统教学观念，帮助学生提高语言交际能力。  相似文献   

出版与传媒语言文字应用弊端及应对策略     

张丽珍 《孝感职业技术学院学报》2007,10(1):40-43

文章在分析出版与新闻传播语言文字应用中不理解汉语某些词语的含义而导致误用、读错音、成语随意窜改等“硬伤”与大量使用套话、废话、语言模式化、中外文混杂、媚俗乃至黄色倾向等“软伤”的基础上,提出了若干应对策略。  相似文献   

论交往动机对语言获得的影响     

郭志芳 《齐齐哈尔师范高等专科学校学报》2006,(4):102-103

人类与动物本质的区别表现在语言方面.人类的语言是怎样获得的?语言的获得到底跟哪些因素息息相关?这些问题一直是教育和心理学界探讨的问题.本文从社会的角度出发,试探语言获得会受社会交往动机的影响.  相似文献   

Parsimonious translation models for information retrieval     

Seung-Hoon Na  In-Su KangJong-Hyeok Lee 《Information processing & management》2007

In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem of estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes the user’s information need. For query expansion in initial retrieval, the translation model had been proposed to involve term co-occurrence statistics. However, the translation model was difficult to apply, because the term co-occurrence statistics must be constructed in the offline time. Especially in a large collection, constructing such a large matrix of term co-occurrences statistics prohibitively increases time and space complexity. In addition, reliable retrieval performance cannot be guaranteed because the translation model may comprise noisy non-topical terms in documents. To resolve these problems, this paper investigates an effective method to construct co-occurrence statistics and eliminate noisy terms by employing a parsimonious translation model. The parsimonious translation model is a compact version of a translation model that can reduce the number of terms containing non-zero probabilities by eliminating non-topical terms in documents. Through experimentation on seven different test collections, we show that the query model estimated from the parsimonious translation model significantly outperforms not only the baseline language modeling, but also the non-parsimonious models.  相似文献   

An empirical study of query expansion and cluster-based retrieval in language modeling approach     

Seung-Hoon Na  In-Su Kang  Ji-Eun Roh  Jong-Hyeok Lee 《Information processing & management》2007

The term mismatch problem in information retrieval is a critical problem, and several techniques have been developed, such as query expansion, cluster-based retrieval and dimensionality reduction to resolve this issue. Of these techniques, this paper performs an empirical study on query expansion and cluster-based retrieval. We examine the effect of using parsimony in query expansion and the effect of clustering algorithms in cluster-based retrieval. In addition, query expansion and cluster-based retrieval are compared, and their combinations are evaluated in terms of retrieval performance by performing experimentations on seven test collections of NTCIR and TREC.  相似文献   

大学新生英语课堂焦虑状况调查     

傅慧英  王皓璇 《培训与研究》2007,24(6):112-114

运用定量研究的方法,采用Horwitz等的“外语课堂焦虑量表”,对浙江科技学院119名大学英语新生的英语课堂焦虑状况作了统计分析。结果表明,大学英语新生的英语课堂焦虑度是比较高的。女生焦虑度比男生高,但是没有显著性差异;外语焦虑和外语学习效果之间呈现显著的负相关关系;焦虑程度越高,对于外语学习的负面影响越大。据此提出了一些减轻大学生外语焦虑的方法和建议。  相似文献   

手机颜色词的类型特征及语用功能     

王成晶 《毕节学院学报》2007,25(3):6-8

"极夜蓝"、"成功银、骑士灰"、神秘紫、"迷幻红"、等这些新出现的手机颜色词是一类值得研究但却没有引起足够关注的新词.从"四个世界"理论出发,有从物理世界、文化世界、心理世界产生的手机颜色词,它们都具有一些特殊的语用功能.  相似文献   

基础阶段英语交际能力培养模式初探——浅谈"6R"互动语言教学法     

王怡 《苏州教育学院学报》2007,24(2):85-87

互动语言教学法能够为学习者创造有意义的语境,从而有助于学习者更好地掌握词汇语法、激发他们内在的学习动力以及培养他们的自主学习能力.互动语言教学法在教学实践中可以归结为1个"W"(Warm-up)和6个"R"(Reading,Responsive work,Role playing,Reward,Report,Revision).  相似文献   

知己知彼 百战不殆——谈国家安全对外语能力建设的需求     

王华丹 《江西教育学院学报》2011,32(2):95-97

外语的重要战略地位是毋庸置疑的,甚至是克敌制胜的秘密武器。文章从简要介绍美国实施的＂关键语言＂战略入手,试图就我国跨界民族的具体情况,各省市间的经济发展水平、经济结构、历史传统、地缘安全特点等方面的差别,以及中国战略资源通道这三个方面分析我国国家安全对外语能力的需求,并针对我国的＂关键语言＂战略实施提出一些建设性意见,以引起大家对我国国家安全语言的重视。  相似文献