欧内斯特·博耶“教学学术”思想评析

欧内斯特.博耶是20世纪美国伟大的教育家,他针对当时大学重科研、轻教学及大学学术功利化倾向,对学术内涵进行了重新界定,并创见性地提出"教学学术"这一概念。"教学学术"思想的核心在于指出教学即学术,大学教学体现了学术活动的基本特点,呈现出研究性、创造性和可交流性特征。该思想为学界看待教学与科研关系提供了一个新视角,为固守大学知识品性提供了一个新思路,为教师学术评价提供了一个新维度,也为建立学术共同体迈出了新的一步。

美国大学“教学学术”理念对我国大学教学改革的现实意义

欧内斯特.博耶是20世纪美国伟大的教育家之一。他针对当时大学重科研、轻教学及大学学术功利化倾向,对学术内涵进行了重新界定,并提出"教学学术"这一概念。"教学学术"理念对提高我国教育质量、改革现有教师管理制度和学术评价制度、促进教师的发展有着重要的理论和实践价值。

“教学的学术”:解读教学与科研关系的新视角

科学技术推动社会物质生产的功能以及愈演愈烈的功利主义思潮,导致了大学科学研究的过度张扬以及教学与科研的对立和冲突。博耶的"教学的学术"理论,进一步阐明了大学教学工作的学术性特质及其与学术研究之间的内在联系和互动规律,是针对当代大学教育的时弊,对教学与科研关系问题所进行的新的探索,为解读和践行"教学与研究相统一"的教育理念提供了一个新的理论视角。

新时代大学教师教学评价:反思与重构

在长期历史中形成的大学教师教学评价制度存在教师教学评价主体不重视、评价标准反科学以及评价效能难以发挥等一系列问题。这些问题的出现与我国大学教师教学评价利益主体构筑的权力格局、科技时代所塑造的组织行为偏好和大学追求的效率最大化路径及其固化密切相关。为适应新时代教育评价改革和教育教学高质量发展需要,我国大学教师教学评价需要从理念到制度进行深度变革,实现基于“主体-目的”框架的发展性评价与基于“教学-学术”框架的系统性评价的制度重构。

Instruction of Nominalization by Applying Enabling of POA

It is noticeable that the academic papers written by Chinese English learners are lacking in academic features largely due to their poor ability to use nominalization.Therefore,the instruction of nominalization in an academic English writing course is badly needed.The author conducted onesemester-long instruction of nominalization to 90 non-English majors under the guidance of the production-oriented approach(POA).This research demonstrated how to apply POA,specifically,the enabling procedure to the teaching of nominalization.By triangulating the data of students’interviews,learning journals and written output,and the data of 4 teachers’class observations and interviews,this study found that the accurate application of the three criteria of effective enabling contributed to the improvement of the quantity and quality of nominalization in academic writing.

Lian-Sheng Ma, Editor-in-Chief of WJG, warmly meets Professor Hugh J Freeman from the University of British Columbia

Lian-Sheng Ma, Editor-in-Chief of World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG), warmly met Professor Hugh J Freeman from the University of British Columbia at Peninsula Hotel in Beijing on August 28, 2007. Professor Hugh J Freeman gave much helpful advice toward the further development of WJG . He will serve as series editor for a new column called OBSERVER which will start in WJG in 2008.

Perceptual Models of Art students and Its Enlightenment on English Teaching

Art students, as a whole, have a variety of learning style of sensory receivers. The Variety of learning styles requires the variety of teaching strategies. The analysis of learners＇ learning styles is one of the factors on which the design of learning strategies should be based. Matching teaching strategies and mismatching strategies are chosen intentionally according to the teaching contents, the teaching goals, and the learner＇s learning styles. Matching teaching strategies can reach the best result of teaching and learning. On the contrary, mismatching strategies can remedy the disadvantages caused by learning styles and be helpful for the development of learning styles.

Reflections on Web-based language teaching

Web-based education has been enjoying greater popularity because of its undeniable advantages. It has been seen as a panacea by more and more people in educational field, including language teaching. Based on the realization of the great potential brought by the development of technology, some viewpoints about the relationship among technology, teaching and pedagogy are put forward: firstly, technology is a tool, not a strategy; secondly, pedagogical concerns and theory should drive the way technology is used in education, not the other way around; thirdly, what matters more than technology is how the technology is used for learning, and how it is integrated into the daily classroom scheme so that active engagement in acquisition-oriented work take place; and finally, the change of learning environment inevitably calls for parallel changes in teaching and learning procedures. Available technologies can greatly enhance both student-teacher and student-student interaction and can afford students increased opportunities for self directed learning. To be most effective, technology must be used to support well-planned curricular goals and should involve carefully designed activities providing students with meaningful educational experiences.

On How to Achieve the Scientific Transformation From College Integral English to Academic English

In order to meet the trend of China＇s rapid economic and social development and the internationalization of higher education, a new round of college English teaching reform is ready to start. Following the pilot reform by colleges and universities in Beijing, some colleges and universities in Shanghai will also initiate college English teaching reform program this fall. According to SCETFR （Shanghai College English Teaching Frame of Reference）, the core of the new round of reform is to replace the traditional integral or comprehensive English with academic English, and through which to strive to improve students＇ English language ability in academic study and profession, and help them build a strong competence in international exchanges and competitions. The author, based on the status quo of China＇s current college English teaching, made some forward-looking predictions to the reform, and put forward some constructive proposals and measures

Teaching Maritime English： A Linguistic Approach

The purpose of the paper is to outline the parameters of a LCC （linguistically centered concept） of developing ME （maritime English） teaching materials for non-native learners who are beginning their maritime academic career. The paper introduces initial notions on applying linguistic criteria as the basic ones in the process of creating ME textbooks. Through the historical development and under the influence of extra linguistic factors （globalization of the shipping industry, in particular）, ME has accumulated and stored various resources being in current use： vocabulary, grammar and phonology, operational and semiotic systems, specific means of communication, functional models, patterns of narration and description, etc.. The proper linguistic analysis makes a secure foundation for methodology which can guarantee a better quality of ME course books for the 1st and 2nd year maritime students all over the world.

Utilizing Electronic Reading Device （Kindle） in English as Foreign Language Reading Class

With the evolutionary change in information and communication technologies （ICT）, the definition of literacy has undergone substantial change to include the skills and strategies required to successfully adapt to the rapidly changing ICT contexts. This new definition presents an urgent need to acknowledge the gap between the types of reading experiences students come across at school and those they regularly practice outside the school. One way to bridge such gap is to expand the reading instruction to incorporate electronic reading device, like Kindle, to engage students in electronic reading. Many e-books feature multimodal functionalities, including audio, video, hyperlinks, and interactive tools. Research on this form of reading is still in its infancy in spite of some positive prospects for fostering literacy development and reading comprehension. Therefore, adopting a mixed method approach with 36 college freshmen in central Taiwan, the current study intended to fill in the void by investigating any difference in readers＇ reading comprehension and reading motivation, between the Kindle group and the print-based group. The results indicate that embedding aspects of technology into a traditional reading instruction boosted the participants＇ motivation to read. Nevertheless, the novelty-driven enthusiasm for electronic reading might not sustain students＇ reading motivation long enough to cultivate long-lasting reading habits. The results indicate that there was no significant difference in reading comprehension between two groups. Implications for utilizing electronic readers in EFL classes are also provided.

Materials Development for Adult Learners in Teaching Vocabulary

Considering the special needs and the learning styles of their learners, foreign language teachers should use the most effective methods or approaches which are appropriate for their teaching strategies. Redundant or a diverse range of teaching techniques are not meant to use in the process of their learners＇ acquiring new vocabulary items; instead, the most effective and to the point teaching techniques in terms of each language skill should be employed. Efficiency of language learners in terms of their command of the vocabulary can be assessed through their understanding any reading or listening context and managing to be productive in speaking or writing procedures in language acquisition process. Phonological, morpho-syntactic, or socio-pragmatic positions of new lexical items as well as the learners＇ learning styles and multiple intelligences should all be taken into consideration by language teachers so that their learners could really reach an efficient level of vocabulary power. This efficiency has been identified as having a language passport in terms of the proficiency level of the learners within the CEFR （Common European Framework of Reference） for Languages by all EU countries in recent years. Foreign language teachers should try very hard to supply their learners with the required qualifications in every language skill so that they can have a linguistic identity both in their own societies and inter-cultural or multi-cultural contexts. Within this framework, foreign language teachers will hopefully make use of any suggested approach presented in this study so as to widen their learners＇ horizons in language acquisition process.

The Need for Music as a Learner＇s Characteristic Affecting the Effects of Educational Films

This paper is about the development of applications for a more specific and therefore more effective teaching and instructional technology usage in classrooms. It investigates the relationship between a lack of music in educational films and its effect on film evaluation and interest gain in educational film topics. Results of the presented study raise the assumption of a need for music as central characteristic of learners related to the effects of educational science films： Basically, it shows that the evaluation of educational films is based on emotional as well as on factual criteria and that both dimensions are positively related to the interest of learners in the film content. Further it shows that learners with need for music, compared to their classmates that do not state a need for music, exhibit a significant worse evaluation on the film factual characteristics and a reduced class performance, as measured by reduced interest in the film topic, the research area and the motivation to carry out follow-up research on the topic. Implications are discussed.

Research on the Enterprise Strategic Management Course based on Problem Oriented Teaching Methodology

With the rapid development of the management science and technology, the management related course is becoming popular. In this research paper, we research on the enterprise strategic management course based on the problem oriented teaching methodology. We reviewed the latest strategic management recently developed various theories and academic point of view to from the theoretical level of modern enterprise strategy management pattern to generalize and summarize, thus to guide the strategic management of modern enterprises. Enterprise strategic management is to point to determine its mission according to the external environment and internal conditions set strategic goals of the enterprise. Through combing the development of the strategic management theory, grasp the context and the regularity of the evolution of enterprise strategic thinking and the development trend of enterprise strategic theory at home and abroad was discussed to promote the existing strategic management research provides some unique ideas and thoughts.

A Study on Socratic Questioning Technique Based on Teachers＇ Narrative Research

Interaction is an important standard to detect teachers＇ teaching quality and effect in college English classroom teaching and is the most eagerly expected by all English teachers. During the process of classroom teaching, bad interaction or failure of interaction often makes teachers frustrated. One of the major reasons is that they ask improper questions in class. The purpose of this paper focuses on the skills of raising effective questions by teachers in order to produce good interaction from students. The method to achieve this purpose is by introducing Socratic Questioning method, which is showed by teachers＇ narrative research based on the author＇s own real classroom teaching with detailed explanation. The result of the experiment shows that Socratic Questioning method is not only a good example of effective questioning but also produces sufficient interaction between teacher-to-students and students-to-students. Generally speaking, this paper expects to have contribution to the effect of interaction so as to help more college English teachers have more excellent classroom teaching.

Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching in Greek Public School： The Case of Italian Language

The contemporary social needs inherently emphasize on knowledge, adaptability, and unconventional problem-solving. They require development of skills in communication, collaboration, rapid-reaction in challenges, taking charge of initiatives, and administration of choices. The educational system needs to adapt in order to meet the contemporary requirements. This introduction deals with the applications of the new technologies through Internet in the school program of the Secondary Greek education when the digital gap is more and more bridged at national and European level. Nowadays, Intemet access is fundamental right to all European citizens and their governments should offer it together with the feeling of responsibility and liability. Through the foreign language education, interculturality and multicultural civilization are enhanced, qualities that the European citizens should have.

Diverse Teaching Methods of Modem University Teachers

With the rapid development of modem teaching technology, teaching equipment in university has been greatly changed. Some university classrooms have been equipped with modem multimedia classrooms, computers, printers, scanners, recorders, projectors, digital cameras and other advanced electrical teaching equipment; which encourage teachers to collect and accumulate example materials and make auxiliary teaching of multimedia courseware. The teaching methods of pictures, texts, sound, dynamics and colors make the original boring teaching content, which is difficult to understand, become intuitive, vivid and easy to understand. It promotes students＇ positive thinking and stimulates students＇ potential, so as to greatly improve students＇ leaming enthusiasm.

Teaching Innovation Exploration basic theory of art and technology professionals

According to features of current undergraduate curriculum design in the teaching of art and science, and combing exploration and the problems that exist during the process of teaching of basic theory of art and science, this paper taking design courses of interactive introduction for example, it tries to innovate classroom teaching methods of exhibition of art and technology, interactive art and technology are principle theoretical classes of their major. Making good use of initiative of self- learning is the core element to help students in subjects learning, we constantly improve and perfect teaching concepts and classroom teaching mode to create the space for students to learn and explore actively, make personalized study according to their own characteristics, we make students experience the interest of freedom, autonomy, inquiry learning, enjoy the delight of appearance of personality and vitality of the burst of life vigor. Combining personal teaching experience, we should explore the way to led art students to learn with initiative in principle theoretical classes of their major.

Research of college English network based on Boyer＇s integrating academic perspective

The information technology assisted English teaching has witnessed fast development and entered the classroom through course integration process. The integration radically changes the essence of college English teaching, and therefore the traditional teaching mode has been challenged. In other words, information technology has become an integral part in today＇ s web-based college English teaching classroom. This paper attempts to read in detail about the Boyer＇ s teaching academic thought. Combined with the current situation of college English teaching, this paper discusses the feasibility of teaching academic thinking is applied to the English network teaching. A model is established by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Through the way of questionnaire to the research on the college English network teaching, so as to put forward the solutions and improve the quality of teaching.

Fusion of modem information and English teaching technology under constructivist theory background

The rapid development of multimedia network technology, multimedia teaching English provides a technology platform. The constructivist theory and modern information technology are two pivot multimedia teaching system. Only to unite the two together as one, it can form a reasonable and effective teaching system. Accordingly, this paper discusses the theory of multimedia teaching, design and multimedia network technology of a modem information technology education in English teaching and other related issues.