Greek schools are witnessing widening gaps between traditional definitions and applications of literacy, which include reading, writing and speaking in terms of exercises from school textbooks and contemporary literac...Greek schools are witnessing widening gaps between traditional definitions and applications of literacy, which include reading, writing and speaking in terms of exercises from school textbooks and contemporary literacy practices like digital storytelling, interactive multimedia use and online communications. Language and literacy teachers of primary education are called upon daily to bridge these contradictions through pedagogical and textual choices they make in classroom teaching. This paper reports an experimental study with children of the fifth grade at public Greek schools to apply modernist literacy approaches involving digital storytelling and online communication in improving language skills. The paper analytically presents the didactic examples of a thematic union within the framework of the Greek curriculum and the alternative assessment for the experimental teaching on digital technologies among mother tongue learners. The findings have implications for teacher's and student's education and also for the integration of a pedagogical-technological content of curriculum within the continuing debate of being culturally and equally literate in today's education.展开更多
The main question in the current ideological and political education is as followings: backward education concept, inadequate education system, outdated educational content and single teaching methods and so on. Base...The main question in the current ideological and political education is as followings: backward education concept, inadequate education system, outdated educational content and single teaching methods and so on. Based on the requirements for college ideological and political education proposed by "Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan", the article put forward countermeasures and suggestions to strengthen and improve ideological and political education from updating Ideological and Political Education concept, improving ideological and political education mechanism, and enriching ideological and political education.展开更多
Code switching is an important research topic in a selection of academic fields including sociology, psychology and linguistics. Generally speaking, code switching, a common phenomenon in language contact, permeates b...Code switching is an important research topic in a selection of academic fields including sociology, psychology and linguistics. Generally speaking, code switching, a common phenomenon in language contact, permeates bilingual and multilingual society. It refers to circumstances in which a speaker uses two or more than two languages. This paper is intended to present an overall review of studies on code switching, focusing on motive. Code switching combines the social situation with the linguistic situation, in contrast to the different cultures in the speaker's cognitive structure. It has social functions that can change the social situation, which in turn sets up a new one. In conversation, code switching also reflects the speaker's psychological state and his/her attitude towards a certain language or languages. This paper will focus on the analysis of socio-psychological factors which exert strong influences upon code switching.展开更多
In modem English language teaching, the right processing of English and the culture teaching is very important, contributing to both the acceleration of the students' comprehension and the command of the language. Th...In modem English language teaching, the right processing of English and the culture teaching is very important, contributing to both the acceleration of the students' comprehension and the command of the language. This article intends to inquire into the relations between culture and English language teaching, the meanings of culture teaching and how to carry on culture teaching in the teaching of comprehensive English.展开更多
This research examines the CPA exam pass rates for higher education institutions in Texas. An investigation related to the top schools and AACSB accreditation is conducted as well as analyses related to public vs. pri...This research examines the CPA exam pass rates for higher education institutions in Texas. An investigation related to the top schools and AACSB accreditation is conducted as well as analyses related to public vs. private schools, area of the state where the institution is located, and University Systems. The results reflect impressive pass rates by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University at College Station in terms of both number of students taking the exam and the percentage passing it. There was a significant CPA rate lead with private universities only when the two outstanding public universities were omitted from the analysis. The research also found significant differences in terms of areas of the state as well as university systems. The analysis and the findings are very important to students with CPA exam success as their academic primary goal with their university education, the educational institutions preparing the students, and society as a whole. The fmdings may help guide both the universities and the students to better success with the exam as well as perhaps help taxpayers and legislators know how well tax money is being spent in this area.展开更多
The paper first introduces the multi-roles of College English teachers, from the knowledge instillers to the designers and organizers of classroom activities, the participants of learning English, information counselo...The paper first introduces the multi-roles of College English teachers, from the knowledge instillers to the designers and organizers of classroom activities, the participants of learning English, information counselors and emotional supporters, and the models of morality. Based on this, the paper makes a detailed analysis of the multi-role effects which can not only stimulate students' creativity and improve their self-learning ability, but also adapt to the reform of College English teaching.展开更多
Student-based education is a teaching method targeted in students' willingness to learn. Teachers must not only know how to change their teaching philosophy, more importantly, to explore the specific implementation m...Student-based education is a teaching method targeted in students' willingness to learn. Teachers must not only know how to change their teaching philosophy, more importantly, to explore the specific implementation methods in practice. "Reading and Writing Assessment" can effectively reflect this teaching philosophy. Students, in the whole learning process, through independent reading, writing, communication and evaluation, can achieve active learning and creative learning, It is proved that this is a good way of teaching.展开更多
physical education plays more and more important role in modern education, which can improve the students' physical fitness, it makes the students' comprehensive development, and it is indispensable in modern qualit...physical education plays more and more important role in modern education, which can improve the students' physical fitness, it makes the students' comprehensive development, and it is indispensable in modern quality education courses. Concept in education rules is a product of modern economic society for the field of education reform, and it has come into being a kind of teaching method which is to keep up with the trend of The Times development. Education rules is the inheritance of traditional teaching method, it is also a reaction to the social development and changes, in this paper, and we will start from the main content and the education significance of rules education, and combine the current situation of physical education in colleges, as to carry on the detailed narration that it' s about education rules during the curriculum development. Discussing the rules of education in physical education curriculum, it hopes to be able to improve the efficiency of physical education curriculum, improve the quality of physical education teaching, and play a positive role in promoting for the development of physical education.展开更多
Globalization and the soaring development of Chinese economy impose new requirements on bilingual instruction in Chinese higher education. It is the market economy mode of thinking that plays an important role in ever...Globalization and the soaring development of Chinese economy impose new requirements on bilingual instruction in Chinese higher education. It is the market economy mode of thinking that plays an important role in every respect of the cultivation of bilingual instruction. On this basis, the thesis explores the role of universities and colleges in terms of the strategy of bilingual instruction and the mechanism to inspire bilingual faculty and students.展开更多
flipped classroom as a new form of teaching, has became popular worldwide. "Flipped classroom" , from Salman Khan, is an occasional teaching method, after Khan and others' promotion and testing for the significance...flipped classroom as a new form of teaching, has became popular worldwide. "Flipped classroom" , from Salman Khan, is an occasional teaching method, after Khan and others' promotion and testing for the significance of today' s flipped classroom. Compared with the traditional teaching, it has broken through the traditional classroom limitation, reconstruction teaching structure reflects the advantages of the new teaching ideas. While flipping the classroom includes the implementation of pre-class design, well-made video and other aspects, but the most critical elements of it are still teachers. Teachers should establish a new teaching philosophy, and constantly improve the ability to implement flipped classroom, put emphasis on students' learning skills. On this basis, the article also rose that in flipped classroom teachers should pay attention to the role of teachers, they need information technology support, cause changes in teaching evaluation and promote the integration of high-quality teaching resources sharing and other aspects. The adult of non-English majors generally have poor English skills, but because of different age, memory, social experience, taking what teaching methods, and doing what teaching activities to achieve the teaching content and the expected effects of prescribed syllabus is an important issue in front of us, the author in view of the current situation, uses the existing conditions, and takes the teaching methods to help adult students improve their English communication skills, to meet the needs of the 21st century.展开更多
This study aimed to examine some coursebooks of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to see whether they involve any cross-cultural topics belonging to different cultures from different countries in the world. Assumi...This study aimed to examine some coursebooks of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to see whether they involve any cross-cultural topics belonging to different cultures from different countries in the world. Assuming that EFL coursebooks written after the communicative movements in foreign language teaching and learning in the 1970s and the 1980s would have a plenty of cross-cultural elements, it was expected to see these coursebooks would also have a lot of cross-cultural elements, especially regarding their publication dates. This study aimed to investigate to what extent teaching materials used in EFL setting involve intercultural elements. Accordingly, 5 coursebooks were evaluated, and topics and number of cross-cultural elements were presented. The coursebooks used in the study were published in 1998, 1999, 1999, 2001 and 2006 namely. However, as the results displayed, the frequency of cross-cultural elements were not mutually related to their publication dates. The distribution and frequency of cross-cultural elements were not balanced with the dates chronologically.展开更多
Elaborated the multimedia technologies in the teaching characteristic, definitely multimedia technical superiority at the same time, the union managed by the people university have used the question which in the multi...Elaborated the multimedia technologies in the teaching characteristic, definitely multimedia technical superiority at the same time, the union managed by the people university have used the question which in the multimedia technologies appears to propose some improvement method as well as in the multimedia technologies the question which should pay attention in the teaching. Proposed in the modem education media, the teacher reasonably chooses and utilizes the science teaching process through the teaching design which multimedia technical and the traditional teaching method organic synthesis forms, all played to the curriculum and the teaching method reform the positive role. The science uses the multimedia technologies, may avoid the multimedia technologies in classroom instruction application some erroneous zones, the realization teaching effect optimization.展开更多
Applying the multimedia technology to the English teaching is an innovation for the English teaching methods and means, because the traditional teaching cannot solve the problems of listening and speaking locally, but...Applying the multimedia technology to the English teaching is an innovation for the English teaching methods and means, because the traditional teaching cannot solve the problems of listening and speaking locally, but the multimedia teaching can well solve this problem, and can also improve the students' English comprehensive abilities. It is a question of the teaching skills whether the teachers can adroitly, effectively and skillfully adopt the advanced teaching methods to implement the teaching.展开更多
A new challenge has been brought by the rapid development of information technology to medical teaching, and the teaching reform of the medical education in China should be deepened for attaining a development. The co...A new challenge has been brought by the rapid development of information technology to medical teaching, and the teaching reform of the medical education in China should be deepened for attaining a development. The core of deepening medical teaching reform is to break the traditional teaching model (i.e. giving a lecture), and create a better classroom teaching situation by making full use of the modern teaching methods. In B-learning, the effective combination of the traditional teaching method' s advantages with the E-learning in a pure technical environment is advocated. In the task-driven teaching, a teaching design is made by students in a real or simulated real environment. In this paper, the effective combination of B-learning with the task-driven teaching model is introduced, so that the better teaching effect is achieved.展开更多
The discontinuous educational thoughts of Bollnow have provided a new perspective for our exploring the growth of Kindergarten teachers and We can rethink the drawbacks of linear development and static thinking with i...The discontinuous educational thoughts of Bollnow have provided a new perspective for our exploring the growth of Kindergarten teachers and We can rethink the drawbacks of linear development and static thinking with it. Kindergarten teachers' growth is the unity of continuity and discontinuity. "Crisis", "encounter", "awaking" and "exhortation" all can break off the continuity of professional growth of kindergarten teachers, put kindergarten teachers' growth into the stage of discontinuity, promote the kindergarten teachers to make a positive self adjustment in shocks, and open up a new stage for kindergarten teachers' growth. In order to promote kindergarten teachers' active self adjustment in shock, and impel kindergarten teachers to step out oftheir"comfort zone", preschool teachers should try their best to overcome the tendency of"comfort zone" and strengthen the spirit of reflection. The kindergarten should create a rich and colorful cultural environment, and establish a cooperative research community for kindergarten teachers.展开更多
Folk music in the past was inherited through family tradition, apprenticeship, social folk life, etc., mainly by the way of oral teaching method. Since the founding of New China, the country in addition to investigate...Folk music in the past was inherited through family tradition, apprenticeship, social folk life, etc., mainly by the way of oral teaching method. Since the founding of New China, the country in addition to investigate and research the minority musicians, takes into consideration the special education and minority musical heritage and the establishment of different forms and characteristics of art institutions. In the inheritance and development of folk music, the advantages of school education cannot be ignored. We should pay attention to the inheritance and development of folk music in college music reform, so that music education has become a platform to promote the national music culture.展开更多
The traditional English teaching methods are mainly based on teachers' words and students' listening type. Neither the quality of teaching can be guaranteed, nor are students' thinking ability and innovation develo...The traditional English teaching methods are mainly based on teachers' words and students' listening type. Neither the quality of teaching can be guaranteed, nor are students' thinking ability and innovation developed. To change this situation, many educators have done a lot of research and exploration from both theoretical and practical aspects, of which constructivist theory is one of main results. Constructivist theory emphasizes that leaming is a process of knowledge acquisition. Knowledge can not only get from teachers, but also requires learners to learn from others' help in some particular context, with the necessary leaming materials, and through a way of meaning construction. Besides, it has important reference and inspiration effects on discipline study and conducting educational research.展开更多
In early childhood education it is important to determine a child's ability or attitude towards different subjects Training and/or education geared towards these tendencies will not only ensure a more healthy future ...In early childhood education it is important to determine a child's ability or attitude towards different subjects Training and/or education geared towards these tendencies will not only ensure a more healthy future choice in education for the child but furthermore will enable the child to have a happier educational atmosphere in early childhood. Music education/training in early childhood is considered to be very important in early years. Music education/training, in the correct and proper context using tangible and feasible teaching techniques not only improves and develops a child's musical skills but also helps develop his/her personality. Two people who shared this view were Zolt^n Kod^ly and Shinichi Suzuki. Suzuki positively affected the educational systems worldwide with his approach to violin teaching and his ideas on early childhood pedagogy. Choosing between the Suzuki violin teaching methodology and the traditional violin teaching methodology is a personal decision. This article tries to objectively elaborate on different aspects of Suzuki and traditional violin teaching methodologies. Each methodology has its pros and cons and knowing what these are will help individuals to make a more educated choice.展开更多
文摘Greek schools are witnessing widening gaps between traditional definitions and applications of literacy, which include reading, writing and speaking in terms of exercises from school textbooks and contemporary literacy practices like digital storytelling, interactive multimedia use and online communications. Language and literacy teachers of primary education are called upon daily to bridge these contradictions through pedagogical and textual choices they make in classroom teaching. This paper reports an experimental study with children of the fifth grade at public Greek schools to apply modernist literacy approaches involving digital storytelling and online communication in improving language skills. The paper analytically presents the didactic examples of a thematic union within the framework of the Greek curriculum and the alternative assessment for the experimental teaching on digital technologies among mother tongue learners. The findings have implications for teacher's and student's education and also for the integration of a pedagogical-technological content of curriculum within the continuing debate of being culturally and equally literate in today's education.
文摘The main question in the current ideological and political education is as followings: backward education concept, inadequate education system, outdated educational content and single teaching methods and so on. Based on the requirements for college ideological and political education proposed by "Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan", the article put forward countermeasures and suggestions to strengthen and improve ideological and political education from updating Ideological and Political Education concept, improving ideological and political education mechanism, and enriching ideological and political education.
文摘Code switching is an important research topic in a selection of academic fields including sociology, psychology and linguistics. Generally speaking, code switching, a common phenomenon in language contact, permeates bilingual and multilingual society. It refers to circumstances in which a speaker uses two or more than two languages. This paper is intended to present an overall review of studies on code switching, focusing on motive. Code switching combines the social situation with the linguistic situation, in contrast to the different cultures in the speaker's cognitive structure. It has social functions that can change the social situation, which in turn sets up a new one. In conversation, code switching also reflects the speaker's psychological state and his/her attitude towards a certain language or languages. This paper will focus on the analysis of socio-psychological factors which exert strong influences upon code switching.
文摘In modem English language teaching, the right processing of English and the culture teaching is very important, contributing to both the acceleration of the students' comprehension and the command of the language. This article intends to inquire into the relations between culture and English language teaching, the meanings of culture teaching and how to carry on culture teaching in the teaching of comprehensive English.
文摘This research examines the CPA exam pass rates for higher education institutions in Texas. An investigation related to the top schools and AACSB accreditation is conducted as well as analyses related to public vs. private schools, area of the state where the institution is located, and University Systems. The results reflect impressive pass rates by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University at College Station in terms of both number of students taking the exam and the percentage passing it. There was a significant CPA rate lead with private universities only when the two outstanding public universities were omitted from the analysis. The research also found significant differences in terms of areas of the state as well as university systems. The analysis and the findings are very important to students with CPA exam success as their academic primary goal with their university education, the educational institutions preparing the students, and society as a whole. The fmdings may help guide both the universities and the students to better success with the exam as well as perhaps help taxpayers and legislators know how well tax money is being spent in this area.
文摘The paper first introduces the multi-roles of College English teachers, from the knowledge instillers to the designers and organizers of classroom activities, the participants of learning English, information counselors and emotional supporters, and the models of morality. Based on this, the paper makes a detailed analysis of the multi-role effects which can not only stimulate students' creativity and improve their self-learning ability, but also adapt to the reform of College English teaching.
文摘Student-based education is a teaching method targeted in students' willingness to learn. Teachers must not only know how to change their teaching philosophy, more importantly, to explore the specific implementation methods in practice. "Reading and Writing Assessment" can effectively reflect this teaching philosophy. Students, in the whole learning process, through independent reading, writing, communication and evaluation, can achieve active learning and creative learning, It is proved that this is a good way of teaching.
文摘physical education plays more and more important role in modern education, which can improve the students' physical fitness, it makes the students' comprehensive development, and it is indispensable in modern quality education courses. Concept in education rules is a product of modern economic society for the field of education reform, and it has come into being a kind of teaching method which is to keep up with the trend of The Times development. Education rules is the inheritance of traditional teaching method, it is also a reaction to the social development and changes, in this paper, and we will start from the main content and the education significance of rules education, and combine the current situation of physical education in colleges, as to carry on the detailed narration that it' s about education rules during the curriculum development. Discussing the rules of education in physical education curriculum, it hopes to be able to improve the efficiency of physical education curriculum, improve the quality of physical education teaching, and play a positive role in promoting for the development of physical education.
文摘Globalization and the soaring development of Chinese economy impose new requirements on bilingual instruction in Chinese higher education. It is the market economy mode of thinking that plays an important role in every respect of the cultivation of bilingual instruction. On this basis, the thesis explores the role of universities and colleges in terms of the strategy of bilingual instruction and the mechanism to inspire bilingual faculty and students.
文摘flipped classroom as a new form of teaching, has became popular worldwide. "Flipped classroom" , from Salman Khan, is an occasional teaching method, after Khan and others' promotion and testing for the significance of today' s flipped classroom. Compared with the traditional teaching, it has broken through the traditional classroom limitation, reconstruction teaching structure reflects the advantages of the new teaching ideas. While flipping the classroom includes the implementation of pre-class design, well-made video and other aspects, but the most critical elements of it are still teachers. Teachers should establish a new teaching philosophy, and constantly improve the ability to implement flipped classroom, put emphasis on students' learning skills. On this basis, the article also rose that in flipped classroom teachers should pay attention to the role of teachers, they need information technology support, cause changes in teaching evaluation and promote the integration of high-quality teaching resources sharing and other aspects. The adult of non-English majors generally have poor English skills, but because of different age, memory, social experience, taking what teaching methods, and doing what teaching activities to achieve the teaching content and the expected effects of prescribed syllabus is an important issue in front of us, the author in view of the current situation, uses the existing conditions, and takes the teaching methods to help adult students improve their English communication skills, to meet the needs of the 21st century.
文摘This study aimed to examine some coursebooks of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to see whether they involve any cross-cultural topics belonging to different cultures from different countries in the world. Assuming that EFL coursebooks written after the communicative movements in foreign language teaching and learning in the 1970s and the 1980s would have a plenty of cross-cultural elements, it was expected to see these coursebooks would also have a lot of cross-cultural elements, especially regarding their publication dates. This study aimed to investigate to what extent teaching materials used in EFL setting involve intercultural elements. Accordingly, 5 coursebooks were evaluated, and topics and number of cross-cultural elements were presented. The coursebooks used in the study were published in 1998, 1999, 1999, 2001 and 2006 namely. However, as the results displayed, the frequency of cross-cultural elements were not mutually related to their publication dates. The distribution and frequency of cross-cultural elements were not balanced with the dates chronologically.
文摘Elaborated the multimedia technologies in the teaching characteristic, definitely multimedia technical superiority at the same time, the union managed by the people university have used the question which in the multimedia technologies appears to propose some improvement method as well as in the multimedia technologies the question which should pay attention in the teaching. Proposed in the modem education media, the teacher reasonably chooses and utilizes the science teaching process through the teaching design which multimedia technical and the traditional teaching method organic synthesis forms, all played to the curriculum and the teaching method reform the positive role. The science uses the multimedia technologies, may avoid the multimedia technologies in classroom instruction application some erroneous zones, the realization teaching effect optimization.
文摘Applying the multimedia technology to the English teaching is an innovation for the English teaching methods and means, because the traditional teaching cannot solve the problems of listening and speaking locally, but the multimedia teaching can well solve this problem, and can also improve the students' English comprehensive abilities. It is a question of the teaching skills whether the teachers can adroitly, effectively and skillfully adopt the advanced teaching methods to implement the teaching.
文摘A new challenge has been brought by the rapid development of information technology to medical teaching, and the teaching reform of the medical education in China should be deepened for attaining a development. The core of deepening medical teaching reform is to break the traditional teaching model (i.e. giving a lecture), and create a better classroom teaching situation by making full use of the modern teaching methods. In B-learning, the effective combination of the traditional teaching method' s advantages with the E-learning in a pure technical environment is advocated. In the task-driven teaching, a teaching design is made by students in a real or simulated real environment. In this paper, the effective combination of B-learning with the task-driven teaching model is introduced, so that the better teaching effect is achieved.
文摘The discontinuous educational thoughts of Bollnow have provided a new perspective for our exploring the growth of Kindergarten teachers and We can rethink the drawbacks of linear development and static thinking with it. Kindergarten teachers' growth is the unity of continuity and discontinuity. "Crisis", "encounter", "awaking" and "exhortation" all can break off the continuity of professional growth of kindergarten teachers, put kindergarten teachers' growth into the stage of discontinuity, promote the kindergarten teachers to make a positive self adjustment in shocks, and open up a new stage for kindergarten teachers' growth. In order to promote kindergarten teachers' active self adjustment in shock, and impel kindergarten teachers to step out oftheir"comfort zone", preschool teachers should try their best to overcome the tendency of"comfort zone" and strengthen the spirit of reflection. The kindergarten should create a rich and colorful cultural environment, and establish a cooperative research community for kindergarten teachers.
文摘Folk music in the past was inherited through family tradition, apprenticeship, social folk life, etc., mainly by the way of oral teaching method. Since the founding of New China, the country in addition to investigate and research the minority musicians, takes into consideration the special education and minority musical heritage and the establishment of different forms and characteristics of art institutions. In the inheritance and development of folk music, the advantages of school education cannot be ignored. We should pay attention to the inheritance and development of folk music in college music reform, so that music education has become a platform to promote the national music culture.
文摘The traditional English teaching methods are mainly based on teachers' words and students' listening type. Neither the quality of teaching can be guaranteed, nor are students' thinking ability and innovation developed. To change this situation, many educators have done a lot of research and exploration from both theoretical and practical aspects, of which constructivist theory is one of main results. Constructivist theory emphasizes that leaming is a process of knowledge acquisition. Knowledge can not only get from teachers, but also requires learners to learn from others' help in some particular context, with the necessary leaming materials, and through a way of meaning construction. Besides, it has important reference and inspiration effects on discipline study and conducting educational research.
文摘In early childhood education it is important to determine a child's ability or attitude towards different subjects Training and/or education geared towards these tendencies will not only ensure a more healthy future choice in education for the child but furthermore will enable the child to have a happier educational atmosphere in early childhood. Music education/training in early childhood is considered to be very important in early years. Music education/training, in the correct and proper context using tangible and feasible teaching techniques not only improves and develops a child's musical skills but also helps develop his/her personality. Two people who shared this view were Zolt^n Kod^ly and Shinichi Suzuki. Suzuki positively affected the educational systems worldwide with his approach to violin teaching and his ideas on early childhood pedagogy. Choosing between the Suzuki violin teaching methodology and the traditional violin teaching methodology is a personal decision. This article tries to objectively elaborate on different aspects of Suzuki and traditional violin teaching methodologies. Each methodology has its pros and cons and knowing what these are will help individuals to make a more educated choice.