A Study on the Impact of A spherical video-based virtual reality on Teaching English Writing Guided by Experiential Learning Circle Theory

English as an international language,English writing is a very important skill as an important form of language output,which is not only an important means of expressing emotions and awareness,but also reflects the ability to use language in an integrated way.In language teaching,the development of English writing skills is an important and challenging teaching task.English writing language is expressed not only at the basic level of vocabulary,grammar,and sentence structure,but also at the higher-order level of text organization,logical reasoning,and argumentation.However,in traditional English writing teaching,students usually do not have the opportunity to have an in-depth experience of the context of the topic,which leads to a lack of motivation and poor writing results.Therefore,this study developed an SVVR learning system based on spherical video-based virtual reality(SVVR)technology and conducted a quasi-experiment in a university English major classroom.The results of the study showed that the SVVR-supported approach to English writing could improve students'writing performance,enrich writing content,and increase learning motivation.

Generative adversarial networks based motion learning towards robotic calligraphy synthesis

Robot calligraphy visually reflects the motion capability of robotic manipulators.While traditional researches mainly focus on image generation and the writing of simple calligraphic strokes or characters,this article presents a generative adversarial network(GAN)-based motion learning method for robotic calligraphy synthesis(Gan2CS)that can enhance the efficiency in writing complex calligraphy words and reproducing classic calligraphy works.The key technologies in the proposed approach include:(1)adopting the GAN to learn the motion parameters from the robot writing operation;(2)converting the learnt motion data into the style font and realising the transition from static calligraphy images to dynamic writing demonstration;(3)reproducing high-precision calligraphy works by synthesising the writing motion data hierarchically.In this study,the motion trajectories of sample calligraphy images are firstly extracted and converted into the robot module.The robot performs the writing with motion planning,and the writing motion parameters of calligraphy strokes are learnt with GANs.Then the motion data of basic strokes is synthesised based on the hierarchical process of‘stroke-radicalpart-character’.And the robot re-writes the synthesised characters whose similarity with the original calligraphy characters is evaluated.Regular calligraphy characters have been tested in the experiments for method validation and the results validated that the robot can actualise the robotic calligraphy synthesis of writing motion data with GAN.

雅思写作教师教学认知调查——“Learning to Write”视域下的案例研究

在“learning to write”视域下,本质性案例研究以Hyland提出的二语写作中五个知识维度为理论框架,采用问卷调查及课堂观察,揭示了某培训机构中雅思写作教师的教学认知情况。同时,基于研究发现,研究者也提出了对雅思写作教师培训、教研的建议及教学启示。研究发现,1) 所有研究对象对“内容知识”维度的教学认知相对充分,且自身在教学实践中也相对侧重;2) 所有研究对象对“体裁知识”这一维度在理论层面上的主观认知较为模糊甚至明显匮乏,但在具体教学实践中却有个体化、碎片化的实践体现。同时,对“环境知识”这一维度的认知也相对匮乏,如对目标读者定位的不全面和对写作背景文化偏向的不了解;3) 虽有个体倚重方向的差异,研究对象对“系统知识”和“过程知识”的教学认知相对充分。除此之外,基于研究发现,相关教师、教学培训启示也进一步在文中进行了阐述。

Some Knacks of Studying English Writing： From My Own Learning Experience

A learner's stages of L2 development are connected by his or her L1 and culture. It is, accordingly, of paramount impor-tance to understand the second language learners' culture and learning process and better assist them through this process in theway of teaching them English writing.This essay has demonstrated several elements which affect learners' English writing throughmy own experiences, such as different cultures, reading and correct recognition of writing, and the writing process.

Facilitating learning together in Iranian context： Three collaborative oral feedback models in EFL writing classes

Peer response activities take place in different modes, and the different modes affect the roles participants play. These modes can be written, oral, or a combination of both. The purpose of this study is to see how teacher-response, peer-response, and a combination of both in oral mode can be effective in accomplishing the learning/teaching goals of both the students and the teachers in a collaborative Iranian setting to achieve this goal, the researcher chose 60 students as the eligible members of the sample participating in this study. The participants--15 males and 45 females--were all Iranian Persian native speakers aged between 22 and 25 majoring in English translation at university level. They were assigned to three homogeneous groups based on the obtained scores on Oxford Placement Test and a sample paragraph on a given topic, emphasizing the expository genre. They covered five topics in a sequence of ten written texts--before and after receiving feedback--over a 15-week semester. All the written tasks were collected and scored analytically to track any improvement and assay the effects of different feedback sources on students＇ writing performances. The results revealed that： First, oral feedback had a significant effect on students＇ revised drafts and students incorporated the comments provided by the teacher, peers, or both in the process of draft editing; Second, of the three feedback sources the students benefited from teacher＇s feedback more than peers＇ feedback; and finally, the collaborative oral feedback model had a significant effect on students＇ writing. In addition, this method provided a practical foreign-language-learning experience for the Iranian students to share their common linguistic goals and gave a new sense to collaborative learning tasks in EFL writing classes.

Approaches to Teaching English Writing in College based on Collaborative Learning in the Network Milieu

The teaching process of English writing in the colleges can be carried out with more effective and innovative approaches in the network milieu,and the concept of collaborative learning can also become the basic teaching philosophy of English writing.The teaching conditions of English writing in some colleges and universities were analyzed.In general,the overall teaching conditions suffer from many deficiencies,which become the aspects for developing English writing teaching activities based on collaborative learning in the network milieu.Achieving the teaching outcomes of either collaborative English writing or English writing on the basis of collaborative learning is not easy.This paper will analyze the difficulty of college English writing teaching based on collaborative learning in the network milieu,and put forward specific suggestions for teaching.

The Influence of Learning Style on English Writing Strategy Training

Learning style is defined as one’s natural,habitual,and preferred ways of absorbing,processing and retaining new information and skills.In language learning process,learners’learning style may help or hinder the mastery of new language.Based on the influential power,learning style should be carefully noticed in the way of strategy training.This paper focuses on the English writing strategy training and aims to put forward some suggestions,putting the influence of learning style at a prominent position.

Chinese Students' Learning Styles & Strategies in the IELTS“Speaking& Writing”Preparation

The IELTS(International English Language Testing System)exam has enjoyed its popularity in China for over 30years;still the number of the Chinese candidates is increasing.Undoubtedly,the stability and the scientificity of this testing system are acknowledged internationally.When it comes to sitting for the IELTS exam,however,the Chinese students often find it very difficult to achieve a band 7 in speaking and writing.The question is,however,why is getting a band 7 such a painful journey for many Chinese IELTS candidates?This report will explore some of the underlying causes and propose possible solutions.Most importantly,the author will share some of his own teaching experience in the preparation of speaking and writing sections for Chinese IELTS candidates in terms of their learning styles and strategies in the IELTS study.

Extracts of Children’s Books as a Basis for Creative Writing Activities Within the Framework of Distance Learning:An Elementary School Case Study

Literature can be used in education as basis for creative writing activities not only in traditional classroom learning but also in distance learning.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a four-month online creative writing program on the utilization of literary texts in elementary school through collaborative activities.The research sample consisted of 15 students of the 5th grade of elementary school.Evaluation of program activities was performed by completing a structured improvised questionnaire on the asynchronous education platform“e-class”of the Panhellenic School Network,where students were asked to fill in fields regarding(a)literary excerpts,(b)creative writing activities,and(c)online groups.Based on the results,students responded in a positive manner to the use of literature in the context of online collaborative writing groups.The majority of students expressed their satisfaction both with regard to the creative writing activities,having literary excerpts as a stimulus,but also with regard to the effectiveness of online groups.In conclusion,it seems that literature can be used creatively through playful group creative writing activities and distance learning.

Study on the Washback Effects of TEM 4 Writing on English Learning

Taken Alderson and Wall＇ s 15 Washback Hypotheses as the theoretical framework, this study aims to explore the washback effects of TEM4 Writing on English learning, to identify its negative and positive effects and to propose possible countmeasures about how to foster positive effects in English languge teaching and learning.

On the Instruction Design of the Course Business English Writing Based on Blended Learning Model

Blended learning based on information technology,emphasizes students’central position and teachers’leading role in teaching and learning.In view of this,the author attempts to apply the model to the instruction of the course Business English Writing.In the instructional design,the author navigates students to enhance the input of sample texts on the basis of webbased autonomous learning and organizes cooperative learning so as to increase students’writing practice,thus improving their research ability and communicative skills.Consequently,the two major problems—deficiency in language input because of limited class hours and lack of interaction owing to the large size of classes can be effectively solved.

Teaching Hong Kong English before Teaching Academic English:The Gateway to Effective Learning of College Writing

Owing to the negative view of Hong Kong English(HKE)in popular discourse,few English lecturers in Hong Kong universities directly acknowledge or discuss the variety in a non-linguistic course.This paper illustrates an action research study of how HKE may play a role in an academic writing course of a sub-degree program in Hong Kong.Focusing on 8 representatives from an academic writing course with 100 students,it employed the qualitative experiment method to examine whether students who had possessed basic linguistic knowledge of HKE from an additional tutorial would perceive HKE and academic writing differently from those who had not.Student representatives from each group were invited to a focus group to explore ideas about the two subjects discussed in class.Their conversations suggested that prior knowledge of the syntactic features of HKE might raise students’awareness of the grammatical differences between the variety and the standard.The analysis also suggested that introducing the linguistic view of HKE to students might render them optimistic about their variety,helping them identify the situations where the variety would be tolerant of and settings where Standard English would be expected.The study suggested that such an intervention might facilitate students’learning of Standard English for academic purposes and practices of English in actual professional communication.Upon the improvement or advancement,they will position themselves more powerfully in the dichotomy between the standard and non-standard.More formal research on a similar or relevant topic is required to validate the impact of understanding HKE on learning academic writing.

Teaching Hong Kong English before Teaching Academic English: The Gateway to Effective Learning of College Writing

Owing to the negative view of Hong Kong English(HKE)in popular discourse,few English lecturers in Hong Kong universities directly acknowledge or discuss the variety in a non-linguistic course.This paper illustrates an action research study of how HKE may play a role in an academic writing course of a sub-degree program in Hong Kong.Focusing on 8 representatives from an academic writing course with 100 students,it employed the qualitative experiment method to examine whether students who had possessed basic linguistic knowledge of HKE from an additional tutorial would perceive HKE and academic writing differently from those who had not.Student representatives from each group were invited to a focus group to explore ideas about the two subjects discussed in class.Their conversations suggested that prior knowledge of the syntactic features of HKE might raise students’awareness of the grammatical differences between the variety and the standard.The analysis also suggested that introducing the linguistic view of HKE to students might render them optimistic about their variety,helping them identify the situations where the variety would be tolerant of and settings where Standard English would be expected.The study suggested that such an intervention might facilitate students’learning of Standard English for academic purposes and practices of English in actual professional communication.Upon the improvement or advancement,they will position themselves more powerfully in the dichotomy between the standard and non-standard.More formal research on a similar or relevant topic is required to validate the impact of understanding HKE on learning academic writing.

A New Perspective on an Old Subject:Mobile-assisted Language Learning in English Academic Writing in Hong Kong Universities

The goal of this short paper is to bring English academic writing(EAW)and mobile-assisted language learning(MALL)together to examine to what degree the latter can be effectively employed to support the former in the Hong Kong higher education context.It utilizes the perspectives generated from the literature,together with professional interpretation,to illustrate the affordances of MALL in EAW in the community.It is suggested that MALL can be employed to integrate academic English into the students’daily lives,through which they can implicitly build the knowledge of academic register outside of the classroom and ultimately use it in the classroom.

指向“学-练-评”一体化的高中英语应用文写作探究——以人教版(2019)高中英语教材B1 U1 Reading for Writing为例

本文借鉴高中英语“三段七步”读思写整合教学模式,结合具体教学课例,探究高中英语应用文写作课堂“学-练-评”一体化的有效路径。课例以建议信写作为目标,通过“读”“思”“写”三个阶段的活动对建议信的文体特征进行学、练、评,从而达成知识的学习理解、应用实践和迁移创新。基于本课教学实践,本文提出以下应用文写作教学建议:精“学”范文,聚焦文本特征,确定读写目标,促进学的高效输入;“练”“评”结合,应用文体特征,落实课堂目标,实现以评促学、以评促练,从而提升学生的应用文写作能力。

电打汉字开路,笔写汉字跟进——革新国际中文教育中的汉字教学模式

汉语和英语作为外语教学有相同之处,更有相异之处。那相异之处突出体现在中国人学英语,一般来说,口语学习与书面语的学习几乎是同步的,从口语进入书面语学习无需在文字学习上下很大功夫,花很多时间;可是英语区学生学习汉语,其口语学习与书面语的学习无法同步,他们从口语学习进入书面学习,必须在汉字学习上再要下功夫、花很多时间,过好“汉字关”。汉语老师如何帮助学生过好“汉字关”?在如今的智能时代需要考虑革新汉字教学模式,采用“电打汉字”的汉字教学新模式;其具体实施策略是“电打汉字开路,笔写汉字跟进”。如何“电打汉字开路,笔写汉字跟进”?文章提供了具体的教学措施。

基于注意力网络集成的联机空中手写识别研究

针对联机空中手写识别的数据样本少、模型泛化能力不足、识别率低等问题,提出一种基于注意力网络集成的联机空中手写识别方法。该方法首先通过在形状特征中融入“联机”的时序特征,构建原始的多维数据;然后对多维融合数据降维投影到三个正交平面上,得到三组投影特征;其次,构建卷积神经网络用于提取视觉特征,同时引入字符嵌入作为图像的类标签,将类标签字符级语义特征通过注意力检测机制与三组视觉特征融合形成三组语义信息丰富的特征图,并基于特征图构建SoftMax分类器;最后,通过基于主学习器集成投票方法进行分类与识别。在两组空中手写数据集与哈工大(HIT-OR3C)联机数据上进行多组实验,在小样本的情况下,该方法识别率优于其他方法,分别达到95.68%,93.02%,94.96%。实验结果表明,该方法在小样本数据的情况下,充分发掘联机空中手写数据中有效特征,提高了空中手写识别效率。

协作写作对中国英语学习者写作质量和二语学习的影响

本文基于社会文化理论中的最近发展区,通过对比合写文本与独立写作文本的差异探究协作写作对英语专业本科生写作质量的影响,同时通过半结构化访谈和反思日志探究协作写作对二语学习的作用。研究发现,合写文本在词汇复杂性、语言准确性和写作质量方面具有显著优势,但两者句法复杂性和语言流利性不存在显著差异。质性结果显示,协作写作可以促进二语学习,这是因为学生在合作过程中可以为彼此搭建支架,相互交流和学习,但同伴间的分歧、任务和时间分配的不合理、知识储备不足会阻碍语言的发展。研究有望对英语写作教学提供新的视角与教学模式。

合作学习对高职院校非英语专业学习者英语写作的影响

以两个总体英语水平和英语写作水平均无显著差异的自然班为控制班和实验班,通过英语应用文写作考察合作学习对高职院校非英语专业学习者英语写作的影响。研究结果显示:合作学习能显著提高高职院校学习者的英语写作水平,合作完成英语写作过程中学习者采用了确定写作结构、修正词汇和语法错误、及完善表达的逻辑性等写作策略,同时合作学习能显著降低学习者的英语写作焦虑。

“手写”与“电写”对汉字学习的影响及相关研究视角

随着数字技术与人工智能技术的飞速发展,计算机、智能手机等电子设备已成为日常生活、工作与学习不可或缺的一部分,从执笔书写到“电写”的变革减轻了学习者汉字学习的难度,提升了信息处理的效率,也深刻地改变了汉字学习方式与教学方式。通过探讨在从执笔书写方式向“电写”方式转变的过程中,“手写”与“电写”对汉字学习方式及汉字教学模式产生的深远影响,并分析了“电写”的利与弊,同时也从不同的维度提出了“电写”时代应该关注和研究的问题,呼吁不同学科对汉字认知的相关问题进行交叉实证研究。