Assessing and Improving General English University Students＇ Main Sub-skills of Reading Compression： A Case of University of Bojnord

General English course at Iranian universities has always been a controversial issue since the students taking this course are rather weak in English proficiency and need more authentic instructions based on accurate need analysis. The materials applied in this course are mainly focused on reading comprehension. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to improve General English university students＇ main sub-skills of reading comprehension and see the effect of the possible changes in terms of time and the fields of study of the students. To do this, 168 university students taking General English course at university of Bojnord, including humanities, engineering, physical education, and sciences, received instruction on the main sub-skills of reading comprehension after taking a pre-test sample TOELF section of reading comprehension. After 16 sessions of 90 minute instruction, they took the post-test section of TOEFL sample of reading comprehension. Mixed between within subject analysis of variance was used to assess the impact of instruction for the four groups of students from pre-test to post-test. The findings of the study indicated that the effect of instruction in terms of time, from pre-test to post-test, and the interaction of time and fields of study were significant. Besides, changes for 10 sub-skills were the same among the four fields of study.

日本高等教育管理政策与国公、私立大学学士课程教育改革的思路及探讨

从日本高等教育管理机构的政策性文件考察入手,以了解近年日本高等教育管理机构对国公、私立大学的学士课程教育改革的要求和建议。在日本各大学高等教育研究专家的相关论文研究中,发现日本各大学实际情况以及针对政策性文件所做的反馈及建议。从以上考察的结果中,发现中国高等教育改革步伐已基本与日本同步。在我国高等教育改革中,民办大学学士课程教育改革也同样正在进行,其方向性、具体方法需要参照和借鉴先进国家的经验。