Building an Academic English Teachers’Community of Practice:Collaboration and Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Against the backdrop of the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence(AI)technology and its increasing integration into the field of education,academic English teachers are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges.This paper aims to explore the construction of an academic English teachers’community of practice supported by AI,in order to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among teachers,and to enhance teaching effectiveness.Firstly,it analyzes the current application of AI technology in academic English teaching and its impact on teachers’professional development.Subsequently,through case studies,it explores the role of the community of practice in promoting teacher collaboration,resource sharing,and teaching innovation.The study found that the community of practice can provide a platform for teachers to exchange ideas,solve teaching problems through collective wisdom,jointly develop teaching resources,and use AI technology to optimize teaching strategies.The article proposes strategies for building an open,collaborative,and shared community of practice for academic English teachers,including establishing open communication mechanisms,promoting deep integration of technology and teaching,encouraging teacher participation in community activities,etc.,to achieve professional growth of teachers and enhancement of teaching quality.This paper concludes by proposing an evaluation strategy system for the community of practice among academic English teachers in the era of AI.

Hierarchical Restriction and Reduction of Overcriminalization of Teachers’Disciplinary Behaviors

The right to education is an important part of basic human rights. To transform from a designed vision to a reality in practice, teachers’ right to discipline, as a component of the right to education, needs tangible support from the criminal law. The criminal law cannot be absent from promoting the rule of law in education. However, in practice, teachers’ disciplinary behaviors are often ex-cessively criminalized, leading to problems such as over-expanding punishment and harming the innocent and even the malaise that en-danger substantive justice such as the tarnishing of teachers’ disci-plinary right and the imbalance of teachers’ disciplinary behaviors. Such overcriminalization has its social causes and normative crux, which is the ambiguity of regulations of teachers’ disciplinary right in terms of the pre-existing law and the unclear positioning of the jus-tification of teachers’ disciplinary behaviors in terms of the criminal law. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a dual clarification of the chaotic parts of the two laws and determine the corresponding guiding principles, and test them one by one through the hierarchical theory of crime to make the path of exculpation clear. At the level of constituent elements, the exculpation is achieved through the normative judgment of the constituent elements;At the level of illegality, the exculpation is achieved by virtue of substantive considerations of reasons such as le-gal acts, legitimate defense, and victims’ commitments;At the level of accountability, the exculpation is achieved through the value screening of the culpability paradigm. We should reverse the trend of overcrim-inalization of teachers’ disciplinary behaviors by clearing the way of exculpation.

A Case Study on Anxiety of University English Teachers as Visiting Scholars in Their Collaborative Learning

The study is to explore the test anxiety of three university English teachers in their collaborative learning community when they do their visiting scholar program.The research questions are about the representations of test anxiety of the college English teacher collaborative learning community as visiting scholars,and the interaction between anxiety and their collaborative learning.The main data collection includes deep interview,field observation,online chatting,etc.The research finds that at the three stages of their learning,the participant shows various representations of test anxiety from cognitive,affective and behavioral perspectives,and collaborative learning community facilitates the participant have better execution in learning,more pressure released and much cognitive enhancement achieved.In contrast,lack of collaborative learning environment in her working university and the specific anxiety for marriage in female participant are two additional findings in the study,which may prove the positive effect of collaborative learning on anxiety from another point of view.

On the relationship between college English teachers＇ beliefs and their teaching behaviors

Based on the questionnaires and interviews on 19 college English teachers of a university in Beijing, the paper discusses college English teachers＇ beliefs. Through the analysis of research results, the paper focuses on the following questions： （1） What are the core beliefs of college English teachers？ （2） What influence will the teachers＇ beliefs exert on teaching behaviors？ （3） Will the teachers＇ beliefs change？ If the answer is YES, how will they change and what is the source of the changes？ The exploratory results and findings can help college English teachers realize the importance of teachers＇ beliefs, through which can help them improve their teaching practices and foster their professional development.

A Study on the Effects of English Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior on the Classroom Teaching in Higher Vocational College

The two main communications between the teacher and students in the classroom teaching are teachers' verbal and nonverbal behavior. The teachers teach students knowledge in words and convey a large amount of information using nonverbal behavior. These nonverbal behavior exert a subtle influence on the students, thus affect the classroom teaching. The English teachers' classroom nonverbal behavior in a higher vocational college in Gansu province was investigated through questionnaires. The results indicate that the teachers' behaviors affect the different aspects of students and then influence the effectiveness of teaching on English classroom teaching in higher vocational college.

Brief Probe into College English Teachers' Phonetic Teaching Beliefs and Behavior

Pronunciation is the basic of learning a language and an important breakthrough point to promote the whole level of language.As a result,pronunciation attracted more and more attention in English teaching.However,it is still a weakness in English teaching because of the multifarious and complicated factors.A large numbers of research papers indicate that teacher is the leader and organizer of teaching activities,he or she dominants the whole process of pronunciation teaching.For example,they make decisions,design and reform the content of teaching in the classroom.What's more,teacher's beliefs can influence their teaching behaviors more than their professional knowledge,namely,teacher's phonetic teaching beliefs influence their phonetic teaching behaviors deeply.This study aims at finding out about teachers'beliefs of phonetic teaching and casting some light on the relationship between teachers' phonetic teaching beliefs and behaviors,and the causes for their inconsistency if any.

Behavior of Delivery Robot in Human-Robot Collaborative Spaces During Navigation

Navigation is an essential skill for robots.It becomes a cumbersome task for the robot in a human-populated environment,and Industry 5.0 is an emerging trend that focuses on the interaction between humans and robots.Robot behavior in a social setting is the key to human acceptance while ensuring human comfort and safety.With the advancement in robotics technology,the true use cases of robots in the tourism and hospitality industry are expanding in number.There are very few experimental studies focusing on how people perceive the navigation behavior of a delivery robot.A robotic platform named“PI”has been designed,which incorporates proximity and vision sensors.The robot utilizes a real-time object recognition algorithm based on the You Only Look Once(YOLO)algorithm to detect objects and humans during navigation.This study is aimed towards evaluating human experience,for which we conducted a study among 36 participants to explore the perceived social presence,role,and perception of a delivery robot exhibiting different behavior conditions while navigating in a hotel corridor.The participants’responses were collected and compared for different behavior conditions demonstrated by the robot and results show that humans prefer an assistant role of a robot enabled with audio and visual aids exhibiting social behavior.Further,this study can be useful for developers to gain insight into the expected behavior of a delivery robot.

Use of Blackboard Collaborate at Qassim University： Evaluating Teachers＇ Perceptions

Learning has come a long way from the conventional blackboard that marked the earlier decades to the new age Blackboard Collaborate which enables learners to work and learn in a collaborative online environment. Virtual classrooms, especially with learners sharing in academic workload on portals such as Google Docs, have arrived as a natural development of the ICT （In Circuit Tester） wave. In addition to offering ample scope for peer interaction, Blackboard Collaborate gives learners the electronic environment they are most familiar with and keeps them updated with the latest educational tools. However, for it to succeed, the perception of the teachers is a factor that needs close scrutiny before this tool can be incorporated into the system. The aim of this paper is to investigate the perceptions of teachers at Qassim University, KSA （Kingdom of Saudi Arabia） towards the inclusion of Blackboard Collaborate into the teaching-learning environment, and its efficacy as a learning tool in the university＇s EFL （English as a Foreign Language） situation.

Collaborative information seeking: An investigation of community members' behavior

Purpose： This article reports on an experiment that tested community members＇ collaborative information seeking （CIS） behavior, with an emphasis on how community type and task difficulty can affect user behavior and user awareness in collaboration.Design/methodology/approach： We carried out a laboratory study with 18 participants in 9 pairs using an experimental CIS system. Data were collected from questionnaires, Web logs and semi-structured interviews. Descriptive statistics and two-way analysis of variance （ANOVA） were used for data analysis. Findings： Compared with non-community members, community participants had a better understanding of search tasks and were aware of the ways of completing tasks successfully. They did not depend on the information retrieval system when constructing search queries and would adopt diversified cooperation strategies. They were more likely to recommend information to their partners. However, no significant difference was found between subject- based community and interest-based community in CIS practices and user awareness in collaboration. In addition, task difficulty only influenced user preference of issuing queries and confidence of completing search tasks. Research limitations： Our work was limited by the community type we chose and the small group size, which could affect the generalizability of our findings and should be addressed in future studies. Practical implications： The study results will help inform information system designers as they design collaborative systems to facilitate social communication in the information seeking process. Originality/value： Few studies have investigated community participants＇ information seeking practices. This study provides insights into community-based CIS behavior. The findings will help us understand social interactions among community members during their information seeking process.

Information behaviors of Chinese K-12physical education teachers:A survey study

Purpose: Given the unique characteristics of physical education(PE) teaching in K-12education,PE teachers' information behaviors deserve special attention.This article reports a survey study of PE teachers' information behaviors,covering information literacy skills and behaviors of information seeking and information use.Design/methodology/approach:A questionnaire survey was conducted of K-12 PE teachers in the Tianjin municipal region of China,with a response rate of 61.9%.Findings:PE teachers lack skills with information retrieval systems in general.The Internet continues to be their primary information source,and they rely more on personal collection and colleagues than the school library for teaching materials.They rarely develop a searching strategy,employ querying tactics,or use advanced search functions,and they tend to be content with finding a few relevant articles.Research limitations:The survey is limited to the Tianjin municipal region in scope.Though attempting to reach 210 participants from 40 schools,it yielded only 130 valid responses.A larger survey covering more regions and with greater responses may be useful.Practical implications:Insights from this study inform the educational and on-job training of K-12 PE teachers to improve their information literacy skills.Originality/value:Little research exists on PE teachers' behaviors of information seeking.This study bridges the gap and enriches our understanding of K-12 teachers' information behaviors.

The Applications of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) in Collaborative Writing and Its Implications for Classroom Teaching

There is no doubt that CMC can play an irreplaceable role in language teaching classrooms especially in collaborative writing in that it can create a boundless space and situation through some programs in which the process of writing can be fully explored by both teachers and students in terms of different types of interaction,either asynchronously or synchronously.This,in a sense,may never be achieved in a traditional language teaching classroom.However,it does not mean the less importance of teachers’ role in the class.On the contrary,rather than taking teachers’ place in the classroom,the integration of CMC to writing class will bring new challenges and demands to the qualification of language instructors.

Multimodal Discourse Analysis of College English Teacher 's Nonverbal Behaviors

This paper analyzes College English teacher's non-verbal behaviors in multimedia classroom from the perspective ofMultimodal Discourse Analysis, aiming to explore how the non-verbal behaviors in classroom teaching can be applied in meaning-making process to facilitate teacher-students interaction and realize three metafunctions of language in class.

A Novel Collaborative Filtering Algorithm and its Application for Recommendations in E-Commerce

With the rapid development of the Internet,the amount of data recorded on the Internet has increased dramatically.It is becoming more and more urgent to effectively obtain the specific information we need from the vast ocean of data.In this study,we propose a novel collaborative filtering algorithm for generating recommendations in e-commerce.This study has two main innovations.First,we propose a mechanismthat embeds temporal behavior information to find a neighbor set in which each neighbor has a very significant impact on the current user or item.Second,we propose a novel collaborative filtering algorithm by injecting the neighbor set into probability matrix factorization.We compared the proposed method with several state-of-the-art alternatives on real datasets.The experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the prevailing approaches.

Clinical benefits of rational-emotive stress management therapy for job burnout and dysfunctional distress of special education teachers

It has been observed that managing job burnout and dysfunctional distress constitute part of the major challenges among special educators,and that empirical data on the management of burnout and dysfunctional distress associated with the job of special education teachers are lacking in the literature.The current article discusses the clinical benefits of a rational-emotive stressmanagement therapy program in reducing the level of job burnout symptoms and dysfunctional distress in special education teachers,using evidence from a 2018 clinical trial study that reported the efficacy of this intervention.Results show the clinical benefits and implications of conducting a rational-emotive stress management intervention,and recommendations are made for future research.

Teacher's Nonverbal Immediacy Behavior in the Classroom and Its Effect on Teacher-Student Relationship

本文主要研究课堂上教师的非语言行为,主要阐述教师在课堂上充分利用非语言行为可促进师生关系的改善。

Virtual Learning Community as New Approach of Teacher Professional Development——Reflective Research into an eLearning Program of Intercultural Collaboration between China and UK

Among the current reform measures undertaken in Chinese K-12 education, to adopt New Curricula and to improve ICT application in teaching are both decisive, however, the lack of qualified trainers is handicapping the professional development of over 10 millions in-service teachers. One of eChina - UK projects in collaboration between universities from both sides is designed to develop virtual learning community ( VLC) among in-service teachers and explore from pedagogic perspective how to conduct VLC. In accordance with reflective learning and collaborative learning, three online learning modules have been jointly created by Chinese and UK educational specialists, and one unit from each module has been piloted by a group of senior teachers. Through analyzing the processes of course design and pilot, supported by quantitative and qualitative research into the experiences of pilot participants, the paper identifies some core factors influencing the quality of VLC and suggests that more attention should be given to the interactive learning process within VLC rather than to create well-structured learning materials before hand. It has also analyzed VLC as a promising approach to support professional development of in-service teachers from the perspective of continuous improvement process. There is much to be researched into the approach of VLC.

A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Teacher Behavioral Norms of English Training School

With a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this essay reveals four types of discourses: discourse of examination, instruction, technology and regulation. Based on the analysis of power relation among those discourses, a vivid picture of teachers' identity at training-school has been clearly sketched. That is, teacher at training-school is a puppet acting as not only the transmitter of specific knowledge, but also the supervisor of rules and spokesman of institution.

Design of a Student Recommendation Platform Based on Learning Behavior and Habit Training

This study innovatively built an intelligent analysis platform for learning behavior,which deeply integrated the cutting-edge technology of big data and Artificial Intelligence(AI),\mined and analyzed students’learning data,and realized the personalized customization of learning resources and the accurate matching of intelligent learning partners.With the help of advanced algorithms and multi-dimensional data fusion strategies,the platform not only promotes positive interaction and collaboration in the learning environment but also provides teachers with comprehensive and in-depth students’learning portraits,which provides solid support for the implementation of precision education and the personalized adjustment of teaching strategies.In this study,a recommender system based on user similarity evaluation and a collaborative filtering mechanism is carefully designed,and its technical architecture and implementation process are described in detail.

教育数字化转型进程中城乡教师协作教学的影响因素研究

明确哪些因素在教育数字化转型中支持了城乡教师之间的协作教学,研究活动采用田野工作观察、访谈与问卷调查相结合的方法,基于“四平衡”监控和学习型组织理论构建“三层级七要素模型”,并运用结构方程模型分析了问卷数据.研究发现:教师数字胜任力是核心影响要素,学校组织支持通过教师数字胜任力的中介作用间接影响协作教学;数字教学资源对协作教学有显著影响.针对这些发现,建议进一步落实组织支持,强化数字化领导场景,有效推进数字能力建设,确保数字化技术的优势能够转化为实际教学胜势;应促进数字教学资源创新应用,增强教育数字化转型的实效性和适应性.