在大学英语教学中应用英文电影的策略探析

随着经济全球化的不断发展,我国与世界各国的交往不断深入,英语的使用越加频繁,社会对英语人才的素质要求也越来越高。大学英语教育旨在丰富学生的英语知识,提高学生的英语素质,使学生成为契合社会发展需求的优质的英语人才。然而,受客观条件影响,我国的高校英语教育的实效性一直未能尽如人意。大学英语教育质量不佳不仅影响了大学英语教育的发展,更影响了学生素质的提高。以英文电影为载体落实大学英语教育为大学英语优化改革提供了新思路,广大教育者应重视教育过程中的英语电影应用,积极发挥英文电影的教育作用,以推动大学英语教育发展。     

网络时代大学英语教育创新探析

网络时代的到来,网络信息技术在各个领域都得到了普及,已经成为社会发展必不可少的重要因素。如今,信息技术已广泛应用于大学英语教育方面,适应了时代的发展要求,也激发了学生的学习兴趣,是大学生英语教育进步的重要表现。网络时代的大学英语教育不仅仅是将网络技术应用于教育中,还要对其进行创新,更能吸引大学生的视角。本文就网络时代大学英语教育创新进行了分析。     

浅析高职院校幼儿英语教育发展现状

当今社会对幼儿英语教师的需求量逐渐上升,对教师的质量也提出了更高的要求,虽然全国各大高校相继开设了学前教育专业,但是在幼儿英语课程建设上仍存在着诸多不足,影响着幼儿英语教育的进一步发展。因此,本文就幼儿英语教育课程发展的现状和存在的问题提出相应的教育建议,以促进幼儿英语教育的发展,培养符合社会需要的优质幼儿英语教育师资。     

人才培养模式下大学英语教学思辨能力的培养探讨

随着时代的不断发展,社会对人才素质的要求越来越高,思辨能力便是高校人才培养的一项新任务。大学英语教学是大学教育的必修课,然而当前阶段很多教育者在落实大学英语教育时仍然以传统教育教学模式为主,在教学的过程中只重视对学生的听、说、读、写、译能力进行训练,却并未重视培养学生的思辨能力,学生的思辨能力普遍较低,素质难以契合新时代背景下的人才素质需求。正因如此,深入钻研大学英语教学实践能力培养,善用大学英语教学载体培养学生的思辨能力是大学英语教育的"当务之急",广大英语教育者应对之加以关注。     

浅谈大学英语精读课程教学方法

随着时代的不断进步和发展,大学英语教育面临着机遇和挑战。如何改变传统大学英语教育中以老师为中心的教学模式,同时寻求信息网络时代下新的大学英语教学方法,是每一个大学英语教师面临的紧迫任务。文章通过分析传统的大学英语教学模式中存在的不足,结合教学实践探讨大学英语教学方法改革。     

我国小学英语教育存在的若干问题及对策

随着社会经济的发展，人们对教育越加重视，在英语教育方面尤为突出。针对我国小学英语教育存在着教师资源配备不足、教师整体素质偏低、教学教法相对落后等问题，本文从实际出发，正确分析我国小学英语教育的现状，并试图从不同层次寻求对策，为提高小学英语教育整体水平提供一些帮助。     

我国大学英语教育的功能反思

大学英语教育的功能定位在大学英语教育工作中极其关键,可以说是起着"牛鼻子"作用。但由于在发展过程中受到影响一度出现了功能定位不清晰,甚至扭曲的现象。笔者主要从我国大学英语教育现状和功能定位的不足谈起,梳理了有关定位存在的问题,对大学英语教育现状和效能进行了探讨,为大学英语教育的发展抛砖引玉。     

浅谈高校英语教学的现状和对策

随着社会的发展和经济日益全球化,英语成为人与人之间相互交流的重要工具,高校中英语课程也已成为高校教育的重要组成部分。高校为适应时代的发展需要,逐步加强学校的英语教育,转变教学模式,改进教学方法,明确教学目标,进而提升高校整体的教学水平,对高校的英语教育具有重要的意义。本文主要就高校英语教学的现状进行分析,并探讨提高高校英语教育的有效对策。     

关于高职高专英语教育教学模式改革的问题

随着我国教育事业的全面发展以及新课改的深入推广,高职高专的英语教育教学模式也将进行改革。因为随着社会经济那么最终培养出来的学生将无法很快适应社会的发展,学生自身能力的发展也将会受到一定程度的限制。本文从关于高职高专英语教育教学模式改革的问题的角度出发,从精细教学目标,明确教学侧重点、提高学生学习热情以及对教师提出一定要求四个方面,具体阐述了高职高专英语教育教学模式改革的重点,为进一步提升英语教学质量,提高学生英语能力并且促进学生全面发展提供一定的理论依据。     

高职英语测试的有效性研究

高职教育主要是为生产服务工作培养应用性人才,高职英语教育也与普通大学英语教育明显不同,它与学生的专业学习紧密联系,为学生进一步深化专业学习打下基础。高职英语课程是以培养学生实际运用语言的能力为目标,突出教学内容的实用性和针对性。因此,高职英语的     

Imagining Social Work: A Qualitative Study of Students' Perspectives on Social Work in China

Social work education in China has expanded rapidly since it was reintroduced in 1988. This has led to a growing body of English language literature on the development of social work education in China. However, thus far, this literature lacks an empirical foundation and little research on students' perspectives has been done. To fill this gap, this paper reports on a qualitative study of a group of graduating social work students (n = 32) from four social work programmes in Jinan, the provincial capital of the Shandong Province. Three major findings are reported. Firstly, the students liken their social work learning experience to a roller coaster ride with many ups and downs. Secondly, the cultural compatibility of western social work in China has not yet been conclusively established, while an ‘indigenized’ social work needs to be compatible with Chinese family values, referred to as ‘familism’ in direct Chinese to English translation, and with the dominant socialist political ideology. Thirdly, the future of social work is bright given increasing government support for its development.     

提升高职生就业能力与廊坊经济社会发展问题研究

高等教育与区域经济发展关系研究一直是各国高等教育研究的重点课题。高等职业教育主要是培养生产、服务、管理第一线的高端技能型专门人才，开展这一研究将有助于高等职业教育与区域经济紧密结合，使高等职业教育适应、促进区域经济的发展，同时也有助于高等职业教育自身向普及化、特色化发展。高职教育应瞄准地方经济社会发展需求，通过专业建设和人才创新培养模式，不断提升高职生的就业能力，从而更好地融入到地方经济建设的主战场。     

Indo-China: Storm Center of Southeast Asia

The authors report the findings of a survey study in which they investigated high school social studies teachers' current practices, challenges, and needs in relation to instruction of English language learners (ELLs). Thirty-three high school social studies teachers in six English as a second language (ESL)-centered schools in central Virginia participated in the study. Drawing on the findings, three themes demand particular attention: the challenges that social studies teachers face teaching ELLs; the accommodations teachers currently make for ELLs; and the types of support teachers need to teach ELLs social studies more effectively. The authors include findings from the field of second-language education to raise social studies teachers' consciousness about their ELLs' needs and conclude with a number of practical suggestions related to instruction and differentiation that are crucial for social studies teachers to help ELLs learn effectively. Further dialogues are needed, particularly regarding ESL inclusion and teachers' critical awareness of serving this particular group of students.     

高职院校学生英语学习的现状及对策研究

近几年,高等职业教育迅速发展。高职高专英语作为高等教育中一门重要的公共必修课程,对学生的综合职业能力和今后可持续发展能力都具有重要作用。本文通过对高职高专英语教学的现状做出分析并结合教学实践,提出一些建议和对策,以期更好地激发和培养学生学习英语的积极性,提升学生的知识和能力,将学生培养成为合格的英语应用型人才。     

The World Bank, community development and education for social justice

For a long time the target of criticism, the World Bank haschanged its image and received a more favourable press. Nowit talks the language of development, has a routine presencein the worlds of adult education and community development andis seen by some as qualified to speak about education for socialjustice. This article critically examines the work of the Bankand argues that its values remain antithetical to social justicefrom the perspective of a transformative approach to communitydevelopment. It concludes by asking what might be an appropriaterelationship for community workers to develop with the Bank.     

Social Development and Minimum Standards in Social Work Education in South Africa

This paper evaluates how well South African minimum standards for social work education, known as Exit Level Outcomes, are aligned to a social development paradigm. Developmental social work is a relatively new approach in social work education internationally, and this article can therefore provide lessons for other countries using this paradigm in an education model based on national minimum standards.

The complexities and difficulties of using a minimum standards approach in education are discussed and the policy context for the development of these standards in South Africa is explained. The use of a social development framework for the analysis is motivated in relation to its relevance to the social context. Nine criteria for a social development perspective were drawn from the literature to form an analytical framework. A content analysis using this framework was done on the minimum standards.

The results show that the minimum standards are generally aligned with social development principles that drive national priorities, but a few significant gaps exist, which are outlined and discussed. This article attempts to grapple with the complexities of using these minimum standards to drive both curricula related and extra curricula activities in social work education in South Africa     

Social Work Field Education as Social Development

SUMMARY

This article will discuss social development models and their application to the establishment of social work field education in Lithuania. A model of field education as social development is presented and discussed, with reference to promoting core social work knowledge, values and skills, establishing relationships between educational and social welfare institutions, and identifying the impact of field education programs on community well-being. Examples from the authors' experience in educational program development and implementation are presented, along with implications for international social work education.     

English as a medium of instruction and the discursive construction of elite identity

Debates over medium of instruction, as ideological skirmishes, showcase discursive identity construction, reproduction, and contestation by different social groups. Drawing on such debates in letters to the editor and internet‐based newsgroup posts written by Bangladeshi English‐medium (EM) and Bangla‐medium (BM) educated writers, this article examines the construction of elite identity by the EM educated group. It illustrates how this group drew on changing discourses of elitism, language ideologies, and other identity resources to construct self‐identity that emphasized the achievement of qualifications and attributes rather than unearned social privilege, and how the territorially bound elite identity was transformed into deterritorialized cosmopolitan identity in the process. The article contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language, identity, and society by illustrating struggles for identity and status maintenance in education that is increasingly being dominated by English and English as a medium of instruction under the influence of neoliberal globalization. It also suggests how English and national languages may relate to (post)colonialism, nationalism, national identity, and social class in a globalized world.     

Community,Voice, and Inquiry: Teaching Global History for English Language Learners

This in-depth qualitative case study explores how one social studies teacher implemented teaching Global History for Latino/a English Language Learners (ELLs) in an urban newcomer high school. Using a framework for culturally and linguistically relevant citizenship education, this article seeks to highlight how the teacher discussed, designed, enacted, and reflected on their Global History curricula through observing, interviewing, and gathering artifacts in a social studies classroom. Findings reveal that although the teacher faced great pressures and demands of implementing a high stakes, standards-based curriculum, he was able to enact a curriculum that focused on accessing and building upon ELL students' cultural, linguistic, and civic assets and experiences. This article explores the curricular and instructional design implemented by the social studies teacher, and aims to provide readers with an example of and insight into how best to meet the needs of ELLs in the social studies classroom. Various examples of social studies teaching strategies and English language learning techniques are discussed, including: experiential learning, writing and revision, inquiry-based learning, discussion, group work, and social studies concept formation.     

高职高专行业英语教学探讨

英语在高等教育教学中一直占据着重要地位,但对于培养职业人才的高职高专来说,普通英语教学已经不能满足社会需求,因此催生了行业英语。行业英语起步较晚,对于高职高专是新课题、新挑战。文章通过对当前高职高专行业英语教学现状的分析,提出了一些可行性建议,力在推动行业英语教学的良好持续性发展。