传媒类高职学生大学英语自主学习现状调查

通过对山东传媒职业学院大一新生大学英语自主学习动机、学习方法、策略、学习过程中的自我监控和调整以及学习结果的自我总结和评价等相关数据的统计调查,了解传媒类专业高职学生大学英语自主学习现状,分析学生英语自主学习存在的问题,为提出解决对策提供参考依据。     

浅析情感教学模式在高职院校英语教学中的应用

受个体情绪因素的影响,造成高职学生英语知识学习效度低下。本文以现阶段高职院校学生面对英语知识学习所表现出的情感状态阐述为切入点,结合对情感教学模式在高职院校英语教学中发挥效用的探析,探讨了情感教学模式在高职英语教学中的应用策略。     

高职学生英语自主学习能力培养

为适应新时代的教学要求,英语教学模式更加注重“以学生为中心”,这种教学模式有利于激发学生的学习积极性,使学生对自己的学习承担起责任。随着高职教育的兴起,自主学习在高职教育中起着越来越重要的作用。然而,许多高职学生的自主学习能力还比较欠缺,在英语学习中处于被动的地位。因此,本文在分析高职学生英语自主学习现状的基础上,提出完善高职学生英语自主学习能力的相关建议。     

浅谈职业英语教学中的情感教育

激发和培养学生的情感对高职英语教学质量具有极其重要的影响,其中,教师是情感教育成败的关键,为此,高职英语教师应注重情感教学、以情优教,以促进英语教学效率和教学质量的提高。     

高职学生的英语学习心理分析及教学对策

高职学生通常对英语学习存在动机不足、兴趣缺乏、焦虑和学习倦怠的心理状态,而注重应用能力培养的高职学习体系中,英语是不可或缺的科目。因此,在课堂教学过程中,教师要善于分析高职学生的学习心理特征,加强和改进教学对策,以实现高职英语的教学目的。     

如何利用情感因素促进高职英语教学

本文首先介绍了情感因素在语言学习中的作用,然后分析了高职学生英语学习中情感因素,在此基础上本文重点论述了在高职英语教学中教师如何培养学生积极的情感因素,从而促进英语教学,提高学习效果。     

情感教学法在高职英语教学中的应用

高职、高专教育是我国高等教育不可忽视的重要组成部分。学校除了要培养学生掌握扎实的专业知识和技能外,社会生活信息化和经济全球化的背景下,英语教学成为教学活动中必不可少的组成部分。然而,由于英语基础较为薄弱,高职院校学生英语学习主动性和教学活动配合度较低。将基于人本主义理论的情感教学法引入高职院校英语教学,有助于重塑学生英语学习信心,增强学习主动性,提升学生综合素质。     

高职英语自主学习能力培养策略与实证

高职教育作为以实现就业为目标的特殊教育,近年来获得了良好发展。而提高学生自主学习能力,培养学生良好的学习习惯,无疑是当前高职教育必须解决的重要问题。英语是中国教育过程中必修而实用的语言类学科,在实际操作过程中,将传统教学与现代化教学理念相融合,提高学生的自主学习能力非常必要。本文结合当前高职英语发展现状,经过多方取证和调查研究,对高职英语自主学习能力培养的策略进行了一定的研究和探讨。     

浅析英语分层次教学在高职院校中的应用

高职英语分层次教学适应了当前高职学生英语水平参差不齐的现状,它注重学生个性的培养,能充分发挥学生学习的主观能动性,从而把学生培养成真正的"实用型"人才。     

装备制造产业集群为高职英语类学生提供的就业契机

高职教育是一种高层次的职业教育,对促进地方经济、政治、社会发展和劳动力就业有着重要的意义。随着高职教育的快速发展,高职院校毕业生的就业问题引起了社会多方的关注。相对于实践操作等专业就业容易,高职英语类学生的就业问题受到诸多因素的影响,就业难的问题更是日益凸显。高职英语类学生的就业问题事关高职英语类教育的发展方向,如何顺利解决高职院校英语类毕业生的就业问题,对高职院校英语类教育的健康发展有着重大意义。产业集群为高职英语类学生提供了就业契机,依托区域产业集群,拓展了高职英语类学生的就业范围。本文探讨如何在装备制造产业集群环境下,提高高职英语类学生的就业率。     

(Un)Common Ground?: English Language Acquisition and Experiences of Exclusion Amongst New Arrival Students in South Australian Primary Schools

Much of the existing research examining the acquisition of English language skills amongst refugees and other newly arrived migrants, both in Australia and internationally, assumes a relatively straightforward relationship between English language proficiency and inclusion within the broader community. This article presents contrary findings from a study of two South Australian primary schools with New Arrivals Programmes (NAPs). By examining data from both a questionnaire administered to teachers and ethnographic observations of children at play in the school yard, the findings presented here suggest that students in NAPs will be differentially invested in learning English according to the degree of exclusion they experience in the school environment and the impact this has upon their perception of the value of learning English as a mode of engagement. In response, the article calls for an approach to education that is situated in global contexts of colonisation and power relations, and where the terms for inclusion of NAP students are mutually negotiated, rather than predetermined.     

Legitimating the Philippines as a language learning space: Transnational Korean youth's experiences and evaluations

This paper examines how a peripheral English‐speaking country is constructed as a legitimate language learning space in the global English language teaching (ELT) industry by investigating South Koreans’ recent engagement in Philippine English education. It focuses on a short‐term English study abroad program, in which the Philippines serves as a transit place prior to students’ moving to a Western English‐speaking country. Drawing data from ethnographic research on South Korean youth studying English abroad, the article analyzes why Korean students seek Philippine English education in spite of their apparent pursuit of authentic English, and how they evaluate their learning experience in the Philippines. This paper finds that the Philippines holds a niche market in the global ELT industry by separating a space for English learning from other public and everyday spaces of English use and offering pedagogically intensive but emotionally supportive environments to English learners.     

Narrative reasoning and coherent alignment in field placement

ABSTRACT

In social work, field placement is considered an essential component to prepare students for professional practice. A significant degree of disjunction between academic and practical learning also is asserted. The present study aims to explore how students develop their professional competence in field placement and relate their learning outcomes across the university setting and the field. Data from students’ learning contracts and placement reports and a focus-group interview are analysed. Concrete practical experiences and the complexity of problems in specific contexts seem to provide inputs on the development of students’ knowledge, skills and personal competence outside the university setting. Although the students were asked to account for these three dimensions separately, the findings demonstrate their ability to connect and integrate them in the narrative reasoning that characterises students’ reflections on their learning from placement. Moreover, our findings show that all three dimensions are developed in both the university setting and in field placement. Preparing students properly for placement training and calling for specific reports on learning outcomes allow access to meaningful connections that are created and developed between the university setting and field placement.     

Adult probation and Parole Services in Victoria

Abstract

The first practicum is often regarded as a critical transition period in the development of a professional social worker, but little is known about the way students interpret their experience, assess their competence and/or re-evaluate their commitment to this career. The present study relies on interview data provided by fourth year social work students at the University of Tasmania. Its findings show what types of learning experience students deem to be significant and how they develop a sense of professional competence. Implications of the findings for professional bodies, training institutions, supervisors and students are discussed.     

Learning about ourselves through considering others: an examination of German students' cross-national learning

The paper examines the research and findings in relation to cross-national learning, which provide the background to an evaluation of a collaborative module run by German and English academics. A discussion of language and the need to engage the German audience in their own language is outlined, highlighting some of the difficulties inherent in translation and ensuring concepts are accurately conveyed, before examining the earlier literature in relation to cross-national learning. Drawing from this we outline how the module was developed and designed, with the core material being case studies which were used as vehicles to explore differences and similarities in social work systems—not merely in terms of practice, but also in relation to legislation and organisation. Of particular interest were reflections and comments from German social work students about the potential benefits of cross-national learning for their own practice in Germany. We conclude that the use of case studies enables greater student engagement and that the findings of earlier studies in relation to their use is confirmed, along with clear evidence that such approaches enable deeper reflections about students' own social work practice and systems.     

‘I Don't Just Want to Do It for Myself’: Diverse Pespectives on Being Successful at University by Social Work Students Who Speak English as an Additional Language

This article gives attention to furthering understandings about what being successful at university means to social work students, focusing on the perspectives of students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). It departs from approaches in the literature that focus on problematic aspects of teaching and learning. The article is informed by data from a small-scale focus group study of nine students from an undergraduate and a postgraduate social work programme in a South Australian university. Drawing on a methodological approach known as ‘Appreciative Inquiry’, students were asked how they conceptualise, experience and imagine success at university. The study found that students’ understandings of success are inextricably intertwined with their individual, family and community aspirations. These findings are discussed in the light of current dominant assumptions about the notion of success and possible directions for future research and implications for social work education.     

‘I see myself as a different person who [has] acquired a lot …’: Somali female students’ journeys to belonging 1

How do refugee students construct their lives in school in their host country? What are some difficulties that they face and how do they respond to those? Findings of a qualitative study conducted with female refugee students from Somalia indicate that students are to varying degrees active agents in the construction of their lives in a US urban school. Although they do experience religious discrimination, they find creative ways to respond to it and, despite the fact that learning English is an initial obstacle in their lives in their host country, they tend to be successful in acquiring the new language. These findings problematize the perception of students as passive victims of the structural forces that inform their lives. At the same time, they challenge educators to seek ways that could make schools positive contexts of reception of refugee and immigrant students. Although the study focuses on the experiences of refugee students with distinct cultural characteristics in the US, the issues raised may provide a window to understanding the experiences of newcomer students in other parts of the world.     

职业中专学生英语自主学习能力的培养刍议

英语教学新的培养目标要求学生能够进行自主学习,为其终身学习奠定基础,为学生的个性化成才提供保证。中专学生有其自身的特点,要想提高他们的自主学习能力,应该实施教育干预,以改善学生的自主学习能力,同时促进其自主学习能力的不断发展。     

Jamaican Students of Color in the American Classroom: Problems and possibilities in education

With the influx of almost 400,000 Jamaicans of color to the US, American educators are increasingly concerned about whether learning communities are preparing teachers and students for the increasing diversity of the American classroom. Problems arise when Jamaican students of color with excellent English skills are placed in special reading classes or in classes of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). Additional problems occur with teachers perceiving Jamaican students of color as simply a black child among other black children in America, regardless of their English language skills, nationality or immigrant status. To compound these problems, Jamaican students of color also lack knowledge about their own heritage, resulting in loss of self-esteem and national identity. To assist their adaptation to a new society, teachers must possess the attitudes and skills necessary to be able to differentiate between the various nationalities of children of color and possess knowledge about the rich historical and cultural contributions of Jamaica.     

Trajectories of adjustment of international students: U‐curve,learning curve,or Third Space 1

International students may need to adapt their approaches to learning and their views of themselves as learners in their new situation. The research reported on in this paper concerns a pre‐sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course for international students entering Higher Education in the UK—mostly Masters students entering a Business School—having a focus on assisting change rather than addressing deficit. Theories of cultural adaptation—U‐curve and learning curve—are discussed in the light of theories of place and space taken from phenomenological geography, and of identity and ‘third space’ taken from cultural studies. The seminar—as this is understood in UK Higher Education—is described as an existential space, and reflective accounts of international students are analysed to see how these narratives both record and create their varying feelings of identifying with the epistemological requirements of seminars. The conclusions drawn are that interventions should be designed to encourage reflective learning, should accept that hybridity rather than complete acculturation is the most likely result, and that synergy—combining elements of different epistemologies—could become a target for all universities.