How to Develop student's Reading skills?

IntroductionWhen I taught extensive reading, I found many students didn’t know how to read more effi-ciently. They had difficulties in understanding the text as a whole. They didn’t know how toinfer something from what they had read. After reading a text, they could answer correctly only5--6 out of the ten questions following it. Questions like "What is the author’s attitude?""What is the tone of this article?"or "How has the author organised his essay?" were difficultfor them.This article aims to present some suggetions for developing student’s reading skills.

Frustration Education Among Middle school students in QingYuan:A Social Skills Development Program

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between frustration education and frustration level of middle school students in a city during the 2022-2023 school year.Descriptive correlation analysis was applied to 270 students.Chi-square is a statistical tool used in the study.According to the findings,there are more women than men,and most are from rural areas.The findings suggest that understanding the significant correlation between frustration and educational assessments of social dimensions and overall frustration can provide insight into potential areas for intervention and support.While the academic and instructional dimensions may not be directly related to the level of frustration in this study,it is important to explore other factors that may be contributing to academic frustration or areas where instructional strategies could be improved.A social skills development program aims to address this problem.

Merit and Evaluation Models for Managers in the National Health System： An Empirical Study

The national health system （NHS） complexity increase requires a review of the managerial human resources evaluation and recruiting methods, considering that nowadays doctors need to improve not just their clinical capabilities, but also managerial competences. At this end it is important to develop performances control models and to identify appropriate results indicators, with the aim of introducing an effective doctors selection system for managerial roles. The paper considers the Italian situation and tests the current evaluation and selection methods, by analysing the literature and the existing legislation and by interviewing experts. Moreover, in order to reach an innovative model, complex organizations have been taken into account as benchmarks. Three different categories of experts have been interviewed and texted： national health care organizations managers, companies managers, and business consultants. The 137 interviewed experts have been asked about four main questions concerning the evaluation for hiring managers as chief medical director, department director, and head of complex units. The conducted research suggests four different options in order to evaluate and to select heads of complex unit for the most strategic roles. By consequence, the analysis shows that required characteristics must be managerial attitudes as well as clinical capabilities.

Dreaming a Possible Dream： Getting Thai Students to Speak in English in a Public Speaking Class

The paper is an analysis of how much success Thai teachers of English have had throughout four decades of teaching English as a Foreign Language （TEFL） and the future direction to take. Thai teachers are aware that their students are not confident of their speaking abilities. That is why they try to avoid making mistakes in pronunciation and connected speech making as mistakes are taken as signs of inability. It is a common sight in an English class that Thai students prefer to remain in their comfort zone of using the Thai language. Speaking is a productive skill; teaching someone to speak cannot be successfully done through listening to the ＂how to＂ lecture. The author proposes that to dream a possible dream, the teachers need to change their course design to adopt the goals of English for communication and enhancement of soft skills such as networking skill, teamwork skill, self-management skill, creativity, and work attitude. An example of a course design used is discussed with the underlining learning theories for the course, the course organization, and the fruits of this endeavor. This course is adopting the ＂Teach Less and Learn More＂ approach, a route to take for real learning.

The Application of Flipped Classroom Teaching Model in English Writing Course in Educational Informatization 2.0 Background

The absence or inadequacy of critical thinking is one of the prevalent problems in English teaching and learning in China, which gives rise to various problems in learners’ writing: digression from the topic, unoriginal or uncreative ideas, loose logic, logical fallacies, and lack of real content. Under such circumstances, the present paper proposes the “teaching-learning-assessing-testing Four in One” flipped classroom mode in Educational Informatization 2.0 Background to develop learners’ critical thinking ability relying on technical support provided by the researcher’s school and the mode is then applied in English writing course. The application of the mode has achieved some effects. It is applauded by learners and may thus have some implications for the development of learners’ critical thinking ability in writing courses.

Education and Skills Development in China-Africa Cooperation

Education,skills,and the development of an African workforce are at a critical moment.While it is recognized that Chinese firms hire local people,the focus of the debate is more on the position and opportunities for training and advancement.As such,the paper tries to answer the following questions.Does China really contribute to skills development in Africa?Does China employment,education,and skills transfer pattern contribute to Africa’s own structural transformation and benefit African workforce?In attempting to answer these questions,this paper first lays out the current magnitude of demand for skills in Africa and the priorities for education and skills transfer that can successfully address Africa’s skills shortage.Significantly,this will enable researchers and non-researchers to understand the diversity of Chinese firms’skills transfer patterns and the reasons behind these patterns.In order to present a comprehensive and precise picture as well as understand the context for China and Africa education and skills transfer development,the paper draws from various data collected from diverse sources,including government statistics,firm reports,second-hand academic literature,local and international news media,official government reports,and research studies.The paper suggests that the assessment of skills transfer pattern should not only consider employees’and employers’direct interests,but also in the short run,skills transfer should focus on offering short,practical courses to secondary and higher education graduates involving primarily on-the-job training.In the long run,there is a need to change the way employees and students are trained,including curriculum reforms that favor science,technology,engineering,and mathematics.Emphasis should also be placed on critical thinking,problem-solving,discovery,and experiential training.

对外汉语阅读教材中的篇章技能训练反思

阅读课的主要目的是帮助学习者通过阅读学会阅读。阅读技能训练是阅读课的重要内容之一,也是技能型阅读教材编写的重点。英语阅读教学界的研究成果较为成熟,本文以Developing Reading Skills为基础,与对外汉语教学界较受欢迎的《中级汉语阅读教程》中的篇章技能训练方法进行对比,并在此基础上对汉语阅读技能的训练提出建议,以期对今后阅读教材中技能训练的内容选择和训练方式设计等起到促进作用。