Does the Model of Language in the National Literacy Strategy Create Failure for Pupils from Differing Language Backgrounds?     

Pamela King 《English in Education》2002,36(2):7-17

The National Literacy Strategy (NLS) was introduced by the government in the wake of the hotly debated issue of falling educational standards in the UK. All schools were required to adopt the NLS Literacy Hour unless they could show their preferred programme would result in raised levels of achievement. My experience of delivering the Literacy Hour has been a process of adaptation to the needs of my pupils, who are drawn mainly from groups whose language backgrounds differ from that which is dominant in school. I have found that the requirements of NLS, together with many of the commercial resources used to teach it, are not appropriate for pupils from these groups and a question arose: is it the pupils who are in some way deficient or is it the approach and the resources being used? This article takes a case study of the use of a commercially produced resource to explore the model of language implicit in NLS, the kinds of resources it generates and the ways in which this creates failure in pupils from different language backgrounds. It then considers the New Literacy Studies and their implications for an alteration in our approach.  相似文献   

On Affective Communication-From Perspective of Cultural Context     

杨佩佩 《海外英语》2014,(12)

Nowadays, cross-cultural study is turning to pragmatic fields concerning communication, such as business negotiation, overseas life and language teaching, etc. This paper reviews previous studies of cu...  相似文献   

Lecturers on teaching within the ‘supercomplexity’ of Higher Education     

Susan J. Lea  Lynne Callaghan 《Higher Education》2008,55(2):171-187

While a vast literature exists on students and their learning, work on lecturers and their teaching continues to lag some way behind. This paper explores the notion that the complexity of Higher Education (HE) today significantly impacts upon what goes on in the classroom through a two-tiered study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore lecturers’ perceptions and experiences of teaching a specific module. Interviewees raised issues pertaining to the wider departmental, institutional and socio-political context. Consequently, focus groups were run with key people in the University to explore their perceptions of teaching and learning within the current HE climate. The findings suggest that lecturers perceive numerous external factors to impinge upon their teaching and attempt to militate against these in various ways in order to achieve ongoing enhancement of learning for students.

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否定转移及其功能词的理解和翻译     

黄碧蓉 《零陵学院学报》2004,25(1):112-115

从分析英语中的否定转移现象入手，探讨了否定转移功能词汇的理解和翻译技巧，也强调了语境、逻辑及常识在否定转译中的重要性。  相似文献   

What successful black South African students consider as factors of their success     

Pentecost M. Nkhoma 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2002,50(1):103-113

Black South African students have a poor success rate in school leaving mathematics examinations. Attempts have been made to shift teachers' practices from teacher-centredness to learner-centredness, in Black schools, in order to improve the situation. So far, the attempts failed to yield the desired results. This paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed at learning from students and teachers in Black schools, as to what classroom practices lead to success in school mathematics, in their impoverished context.This revised version was published online in October 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

A review of ontology based query expansion     

J. Bhogal  A. Macfarlane  P. Smith 《Information processing & management》2007

This paper examines the meaning of context in relation to ontology based query expansion and contains a review of query expansion approaches. The various query expansion approaches include relevance feedback, corpus dependent knowledge models and corpus independent knowledge models. Case studies detailing query expansion using domain-specific and domain-independent ontologies are also included. The penultimate section attempts to synthesise the information obtained from the review and provide success factors in using an ontology for query expansion. Finally the area of further research in applying context from an ontology to query expansion within a newswire domain is described.  相似文献   

寓于语境的听力教学     

张乐 《贵州教育学院学报》2011,(7):70-72

语言的理解与语境是密不可分的。在英语教学中,听力理解作为一项输入性技能,它是实现用英语进行交际的基础,听力水平也成了衡量外语学习者总体语言能力的一个重要因素。然而在实际的课堂教学中,许多老师会发现尽管听力材料简单,语法、单词都没有障碍,但是学生却只能获得一些零散的信息,无法利用这些零散的语素组合出完整的意义。由于不知如何解读组合所得的信息,而常常使学生听力结束后陷入一种＂混沌＂的状态。为了解决这一问题,在研究听力教学及语境理论的基础上,教学者应结合自身教学经验,将听力教学巧妙地寓于语境之中。  相似文献   

政论语体中“使”字句的使用意图     

徐燕青 《福建师大福清分校学报》2008,(1):79-85

句式的使用意图,都必须联系上下文语境去考察。“使”字句存在着条件、因果、目的和假设等多种不同的语义关系类型。各种不同语义关系的“使”字句的具体内容都能满足说话人不同的使用需求。使用条件关系的“使”字句,在意图上具有明显的一致性,使用目的和假设关系的“使”字句,有两种意图：有的是以句式的内容得出结论,有的则是把句式内容当作一种理由;而使用因果关系和可然（做法和作用）的“使”字句,其目的则是以句式本身的内容作为得出某种结论的理由或论据。  相似文献   

公正司法语境下的刑事司法制度创新——一个刑事被害人视角的审视     

宣刚 《安徽科技学院学报》2011,25(1):121-125

文化语境的意蕴下,公正司法是在一定历史阶段的社会生活中,在交流沟通的过程中,受各种主客观因素的影响,参与司法的主体通过司法实践而形成的对司法程序和实体的整体价值判断。刑事司法的制度创新,需要在刑事案件侦查、起诉和审判制度中体现刑事被害人参与和评价作用,以实现公正司法。  相似文献   

电影《泰坦尼克号》经典片段的多模态话浯分析     

李洁  陈云 《齐齐哈尔师范高等专科学校学报》2012,(6):59-60

摘要：电影语篇分析主要涉及到语言、图像、声音等多模态的探讨。本文以系统功能语言学为指导的多豫乌话语分析为理论基础,从文化语境,情景语境,和电影中非语言符号的模态分析,三个层次对电影《泰坦尼克号》经典片段：主人公在船头比翼双飞,体验飞翔的感觉,进行分析,探讨该片段是如何通过不同模态之间的配合和协同来体现了影片主题：自由伟大的爱情;旨在揭示各模态是如何在电影语篇中发挥意义共建的作用。  相似文献