让学生言语真正生长——“写好对话”习作教学磨课手记

小学语文教学在很大程度上就是培养学生的语言文字应用能力,而语言文字的应用必须植根于学生已有的心智特点和言语自觉。为此,小学生的语言培养,需要遵循孩子的言语机能和可能的发展倾向,让学生的言语自然生长。该文以＂对话＂习作为例,谈小学生言语生长的激发和培养。

Using Graded-Conversations to Enhance Language Learning and Student Collaboration

Language teaching entails the use of varied methods to maximize learning. Most language educators, particularly those teaching foreign languages tend to use lesson review sheets, dialogue practice, drills on grammar, audio tapes or text recordings. Educators also make use of media to enhance learning while a few language instructors use graded-conversations. Thus, this paper explores ways in which graded-conversations impact language learning. This paper shows how using graded-conversations in a Swahili language classroom enhanced language learning and encouraged students to collaborate in and outside the classroom. More specifically, the findings indicate that while graded-conversations motivated students to communicate with each other beyond classroom and use social media to help each other study, assignments shape the type and quality of students＇ collaboration. Implications for teaching are presented.

Rhetorical Devices in Dialogues of The Big Bang Theory

This paper analyzes the effect of rhetorical devices, such as irony, sarcasm, parody, hyperbole, pun, antonomasia, etc., in dialogues of the American TV series The Big Bang Theory （2007） with an aim to help improve English learners＇ awareness and appreciation of rhetorical means in English-based literary works. Instances are cited with the use of such rhetoric means in the dialogue transcriptions. It is discovered that integrated use of a variety of rhetorical devices is a significant means for vivid and impressive characterization in literature. Such an analysis is a rewarding journey on either an academic or entertainment basis, and a process of discovery and learning that may particularly be well-received with EFL （English as a Foreign Language） learners

Drama for Language Learning to Adult Learners Through Co-generative Dialogues

Drama is a motivational, powerful, and feasible technique and tool for language learning. Interactions in the class play an important role. Thus, teachers exploit a number of opportunities to give chance to participants for communication. Writing drama and enacting it can be a good space for generating discussion to develop language skills. Analysis of language interaction in drama focuses on negotiations of language. Co-generative dialogues help participants to focus on the social aspects of life. The interaction and communication to environment play a vital role as it conveys a positive message through performance and fulfills the socio effective requirement. As English Language teaching teachers, we always look for innovative and motivational ideas for language learning and thus, “Drama for language learning through co-generative dialogues” helped me to expand the repertoire of dynamics in the classroom. Drama included co-generative dialogues stage production and performance. It is a powerful and innovative medium for exploring and learning language. It communicated response, moods, and information to the audience. The research explored the effect of drama for language learning through co-generative dialogues, to build cultural awareness, create bondage, meet people, and solve problems.

EVOLVING FROM COLLABORATING IN TEACHING——REFLECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF A TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WITHIN A CHINESE UNIVERSITY

基于实践社群( Wenger 1998)的相关研究,本文认为知识是动态的,需通过社会参与型学习实现。本文展现了一个为促进合作而建立的教师学习型实践社群(Newmann 1996)。两年半的实地参与性研究表明该社群的内部合作结构为表达分歧和协商异议提供了渠道;其合作结构的演变对激发社群的活力和生命力发挥了重要作用:合作结构的演变有助于成员能力的提升、自我身份的构建和社群领导权的合理分配。本文强调"不同"在社群发展中的作用,它不仅可以引发对话和改变,也为合理决策提供前提,是推动成员身份演变的必备要素。本研究可为有相似兴趣的教师——尤其是具有不同国籍和资历的教师——建立专业实践社群提供参考。