Competing priorities: Singaporean teachers’ perspectives on critical literacy     

Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen 《International Journal of Educational Research》2010,49(6):184-194

This paper explores a group of Singaporean English language teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about critical literacy as well as their perspectives on how best to teach literacy and critical literacy in Singapore schools. A face-to-face survey was conducted among 58 English language teachers by using open-ended questions. The survey covered various topics related to literacy instruction including text decoding, meaning construction, and critical analysis of texts. The participating teachers believed strongly that reading and writing are transactional and interactional practices. However, they were less certain in their beliefs about teaching critical literacy including the critical, analytical and evaluative aspects of text reading. Some teachers saw a conflict between using time on teaching critical literacy and preparing students to pass their exams. As critical literacy is not a requirement at exams, they found it difficult to justify using time teaching it. The results suggest that the teachers’ belief systems are strongly influenced by the broad macro-structure of the educational system in Singapore and their own educational experiences.  相似文献   

福建省高校教师利用文献信息资源情况的调查     

周清华 《江西图书馆学刊》2004,34(2):27-29

从教师对图书馆的评价、获取信息的途径和能力、使用图书馆的目的、阅读倾向与方法等方面进行分析，总结出教师献需求的特点，列举了影响教师献需求的几个因素，指出图书馆应着力培养教师利用图书馆的意识，强化检索技能。  相似文献   

大学英语阅读教学创新三环节     

徐灵 《郧阳师范高等专科学校学报》2002,22(4):122-124

从语言学习的规律来看,英语应用能力的提高是建立在大量的语言输入尤其是大量的阅读基础之上的[1]。所以大学英语阅读教学一直被置于一个非常重要的教学地位。然而,传统的大学英语阅读教学方法已经不能适应当代大学生对英语学习的要求。随着我国加入WTO和经济改革的深入,社会对具有英语实际应用能力的非英语专业大学毕业生的需求日益增加。这就要求大学英语阅读教学不断创新,以培养出更多具有较高英语应用能力的大学毕业生。  相似文献   

试探“读书疗法”   总被引：18，自引：2，他引：16  

刘宏  洪彩焕 《图书馆论坛》2001,21(3):24-26,98

“读书疗法”，运用生理学、读者心理学和医学的原理、技巧和检测手段，通过图书馆“图书治疗医师”的言语和行为与求询商谈事解释，并为其对症施书、指导阅读。适用于人们的精神和不良情绪引发的疾病，诸如抑郁、焦虑或患有轻、中度精神分裂症乃人格障碍等的辅助治疗。  相似文献   

阅读与人生   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王群  敬卿 《高校图书馆工作》2009,29(1):3-4

文章阐述了阅读在人生发展中的重耀作用，认为人们可以通过各种有效阅读获取更多的人生智慧，从而使人生得到更好的发展。参考文献4。  相似文献   

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2017

This study examined the developments in children’s externalizing problems and interest in reading during their first four years of school (Grades 1–4) and investigated whether this development predicted the children’s Grade 6 reading skills and educational aspirations. Data comprised (1) teachers’ ratings of externalizing problems and children’s (N = 642; 43% girls) self-ratings of their interest in reading, collected between Grades 1 and 4, and (2) measures of reading fluency and comprehension, and children’s self-reports of educational aspirations, collected at Grade 6. First, latent growth modeling showed that a higher level of externalizing problems in Grade 1 was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading. Second, a positive association between the initial level of interest in reading and a linear change in externalizing problems indicated that children with a lower interest in reading in Grade 1 were rated by teachers as exhibiting higher levels of externalizing problems, which nonetheless declined over the course of their first four years of school more than among other children. Third, a higher initial level of externalizing problems with a linear change in these problems across Grades 1–4 was a predictor of lower subsequent educational aspirations and poorer reading comprehension in Grade 6. Analysis of the indirect effects indicated that a higher level of externalizing problems was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading, which, in turn, was related to poorer future reading fluency and lower educational aspirations. The findings imply that problem behaviors are interlinked with academic skill development and motivation across the first six years of school.  相似文献   

Development of students’ text-picture integration and reading competence across grades 5–7 in a three-tier secondary school system: A longitudinal study     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2017

375 students from 24 randomly selected classes of a three-tier secondary school system were tested in a longitudinal study for their text-picture integration and pure reading competence as well as verbal and spatial intelligence at grades 5–7. Data were analyzed according to the integrated model of text and picture comprehension using hierarchical linear modeling techniques. Results indicate that text-picture integration comprises higher spatial cognitive demands than pure reading. School tiers differed in terms of competency levels, but also in terms of growth rates of text-picture integration competence. Differences between lower tiers and higher tiers for text-picture integration competence became smaller from grade to grade, whereas developmental trajectories of reading competence ran parallel to each other. The study reveals that the skills for the conjoint processing of text and pictures develop in a way that might help especially poorer students in lower school tiers to catch up with their mates in higher tiers as compared to the competence of pure reading. Text-picture integration seems to provide gradually better opportunities for less capable learners to compensate for previous lags in their learning.  相似文献   

Covariation between reading and arithmetic skills from Grade 1 to Grade 7     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2017

This study examined the extent to which reading and arithmetic skills show covariation at Grade 1 and at Grade 7, to what extent this covariation is time-invariant or time-specific, and to what extent different antecedents will predict these time-invariant and time-specific portions of the covariation. The reading and arithmetic skills of a total of 1335 Finnish children were assessed at the end of Grade 1 and then again at the end of Grade 7. Phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN), counting, and parental education levels were measured in kindergarten; working memory at Grade 1 and nonverbal reasoning at Grade 3. The results showed that reading and arithmetic had a substantial amount of covariation at grades 1 and 7, and that most of the covariation between these grades was time-invariant and could be predicted by RAN, counting, letter knowledge, working memory, and nonverbal reasoning. The time-specific portion of the covariation between reading and arithmetic in Grade 1 was predicted by phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and counting; while time-specific covariation in Grade 7 was predicted by parental education level and nonverbal reasoning.  相似文献   

The modality effect on reading literacy: perspectives from students’ online reading habits,cognitive and metacognitive strategies,and web navigation skills across regions     

Jiun Yu Wu  Ya-Chun Peng 《Interactive Learning Environments》2017,25(7):859-876

This study tested the effects of the modality of reading formats (electronic vs. print), online reading habits (engagement in different online reading activities), use of cognitive strategies, metacognitive knowledge, and navigation skills on printed and electronic reading literacy across regions. Participants were 31,784 fifteen-year-old students (50.78% female) from 19 countries and economies in the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment database. Results showed that students exhibited better reading literacy in the print environment. Moreover, information-seeking activities, control strategies, knowledge of metacognitive strategies, and navigation skills positively predicted reading literacy in both print and electronic formats for all regions, whereas social reading activities negatively predicted reading literacy in print and were most harmful for the Asian region in both formats. Memorization strategies were negatively associated with reading literacy in both formats for Australasian, Western and Eastern EU, and South American regions, but not for the Asian region. Online reading habits, regardless of types, had no impact on reading literacy in both formats for the South American region. The study findings provided suggestions for literacy instruction in the e-learning era across different regions.  相似文献   

Interest in an expository text: How does it flow from reading to writing?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pietro Boscolo  Nicola AriasiLaura Del Favero  Chiara Ballarin 《Learning and Instruction》2011,21(3):467-480

This study investigated the flow of interest in a reading-to-write activity. It was hypothesized that (a) different contents in a text would stimulate different types of interest and (b) different writing tasks would impact differently students’ use of interesting text segments. Participants were 247 11th- and 12th-grade students, who were divided into 6 groups according to a 2 (interesting vs. uninteresting topic) × 3 (type of writing task) design. While reading, students rated novelty, curiosity, impressiveness, importance, and willingness to reflect on each text segment. Participants were then assigned to one of three writing tasks, namely argumentation, text designing, and composition. Results showed that concepts were regarded as important, events/activities as impressive, and evaluations as most worthy of reflection. Topic interest was explicitly expressed mainly in the argumentation condition, where increased topic interest scores after reading and writing were also found.  相似文献