This study explores how overseas exchange opportunities might influence Chinese students ’engagement in L2 learning activities and how far such opportunities may satisfy their motivation to study abroad. The analysis...This study explores how overseas exchange opportunities might influence Chinese students ’engagement in L2 learning activities and how far such opportunities may satisfy their motivation to study abroad. The analysis of the data, collected and filtered from carefully designed questionnaires and interviews, showed that students ’ L2 learning activities and study-abroad motivations underwent changes after their overseas experiences. Regarding the former, the overseas environment was the cause of the change because it provided students with more chances to talk with native speakers and increased the frequency of their using L2 in their daily life. Regarding the latter, the decline of the students ’ major study-abroad motivations was partly because they tended to treat L2 learning as a tool for realizing other goals and partly because the students had got other important motivations. In view of these findings, suggestions were raised to help future students get better prepared for their overseas study or short-term exchange life.展开更多
Content-based instruction has been gaining widespread popularity in the teaching of both ESL and EFL. Despite its reported and recognized advantages, however, many English teachers fail to make full use of its content...Content-based instruction has been gaining widespread popularity in the teaching of both ESL and EFL. Despite its reported and recognized advantages, however, many English teachers fail to make full use of its content and benefits of language learning. In addition, there are comparatively few studies which offer theoretical foundation for content-based teaching and constructive suggestions for its integration in the settings of EFL. This article aims to connect theory with practice and help teachers of EFL in China to maximize the potential of content-based instruction. To achieve this goal, it first presents a short literature review on project-based instruction, followed by a summary of its advantages and beneficial outcomes of using the intemet in order to implement it. It then proposes an eight-step process for the sequencing of project work and finally demonstrate a real-world project specially designed for Chinese EFL students. Both the design and the teaching activities proposed can be easily transferred to other settings..展开更多
Reading and writing germination thought is the most popular early reading and writing thought in the world. The children who are formed are learning to read and write in their lives. Children are the active learners o...Reading and writing germination thought is the most popular early reading and writing thought in the world. The children who are formed are learning to read and write in their lives. Children are the active learners of reading and writing. Children learn to read and write is a kind of social process and reading. And the development of the interrelatedness of writing, it demands that the early reading and writing course of children have four characteristics active curriculum orientation, integrated curriculum content, infiltration curriculum implementation and meaningful reading and writing environment. The Chinese current kindergarten read-write curriculum develops should respect the baby language law of development, fulfills the initiative construction the curriculum orientation that makes uniform baby’s read-write experience, the curriculum content link baby lives the world and the building interaction read-write scene, the establishment has the significance language environment.展开更多
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文摘This study explores how overseas exchange opportunities might influence Chinese students ’engagement in L2 learning activities and how far such opportunities may satisfy their motivation to study abroad. The analysis of the data, collected and filtered from carefully designed questionnaires and interviews, showed that students ’ L2 learning activities and study-abroad motivations underwent changes after their overseas experiences. Regarding the former, the overseas environment was the cause of the change because it provided students with more chances to talk with native speakers and increased the frequency of their using L2 in their daily life. Regarding the latter, the decline of the students ’ major study-abroad motivations was partly because they tended to treat L2 learning as a tool for realizing other goals and partly because the students had got other important motivations. In view of these findings, suggestions were raised to help future students get better prepared for their overseas study or short-term exchange life.
文摘Content-based instruction has been gaining widespread popularity in the teaching of both ESL and EFL. Despite its reported and recognized advantages, however, many English teachers fail to make full use of its content and benefits of language learning. In addition, there are comparatively few studies which offer theoretical foundation for content-based teaching and constructive suggestions for its integration in the settings of EFL. This article aims to connect theory with practice and help teachers of EFL in China to maximize the potential of content-based instruction. To achieve this goal, it first presents a short literature review on project-based instruction, followed by a summary of its advantages and beneficial outcomes of using the intemet in order to implement it. It then proposes an eight-step process for the sequencing of project work and finally demonstrate a real-world project specially designed for Chinese EFL students. Both the design and the teaching activities proposed can be easily transferred to other settings..
文摘Reading and writing germination thought is the most popular early reading and writing thought in the world. The children who are formed are learning to read and write in their lives. Children are the active learners of reading and writing. Children learn to read and write is a kind of social process and reading. And the development of the interrelatedness of writing, it demands that the early reading and writing course of children have four characteristics active curriculum orientation, integrated curriculum content, infiltration curriculum implementation and meaningful reading and writing environment. The Chinese current kindergarten read-write curriculum develops should respect the baby language law of development, fulfills the initiative construction the curriculum orientation that makes uniform baby’s read-write experience, the curriculum content link baby lives the world and the building interaction read-write scene, the establishment has the significance language environment.
