英语在线阅读课程与教学实践探索

在充分了解学生特点和就业前景的基础上,中国传媒大学南广学院国际传播学院在英语专业高年级英语教学中,用英语在线阅读课程替代传统的高级英语课程。通过阅读材料选择灵活化、教学重点和难点明确化、学生作业个性化、课程考核科学化等途径开展教学改革。结果表明,这一尝试性探索符合独立学院培养应用型人才的专业培养目标,取得良好的教学效果。

研究生医学英语在线阅读能力的实证研究

阅读是理解文字和图片等书面材料的一系列复杂活动与过程。阅读能力包括宏观和微观阅读技能,需要学习者具备包括认读、预测、理解、鉴赏、速读和自学技能六项能力。英语阅读能力是英语听说读写译五大技能之一,是学习者了解外部世界的手段,也是其获取专业信息、促进专业成长的重要途径。不同的英语阅读者阅读能力不一。成功的阅读者具备将读取的词汇信息与文本和知识表征进行整合的能力。

英语阅读翻转课堂模式设计

文章针对学生英文阅读量不足的问题,着手阅读中的词汇附带习得,以丰富的在线阅读库为载体,以"翻转课堂"理念为指导,探讨建立英语阅读翻转课堂教学模式的可能性。

Reading with Strategies： A Study of Young EFL Learners＇ Use of Online Reading Strategies

To assist young learners to cultivate efficient learning strategies in the early ages, students in the current study were guided to read three authentic online storybooks and then write their own digital stories with tablet PCs. The study aims to investigate Taiwan Residents elementary school students＇ use of online reading strategies, and their relationship with students＇ performance on reading proficiency tests. The target population consisted of upper-grade learners （n = 83）. The instruments were a M-SORS （modified survey of reading strategy） questionnaire and a reading proficiency test. Major findings were as follows： （l） Students used online reading strategies at medium level; （2） problem solving strategies were proven to significantly correlate with students＇ performance on reading comprehension test; and （3） there was a significant difference between higher and lower reading proficiency learners＇ use of online reading strategies. Pedagogical implications of the findings and suggestion for future research are discussed.