浅议在大学英语教学中如何激发学生英语学习的兴趣

目前大学英语教学改革试点工作已经进入到普及推广阶段,教学模式的创新是大学英语教学改革的核心。本文提出激发学生学习英语的兴趣是有效地进行教学改革,从而提高学生的英语应用能力的关键,并且就如何激发学生英语学习的兴趣进行深入浅出的探讨。     

浅议在大学英语教学中如何激发学生英语学习的兴趣

目前大学英语教学改革试点工作已经进入到普及推广阶段，教学模式的创新是大学英语教学改革的核心。本文提出激发学生学习英语的兴趣是有效地进行教学改革，从而提高学生的英语应用能力的关键，并且就如何激发学生英语学习的兴趣进行深入浅出的探讨。     

艺术类本科生英语写作中的错误分析

中国的英语学习者是在非自然环境的课堂上有意识地学习英语的,因此,他们在学习该语言时所犯的语言错误是不可避免的.本文指出通过分析他们所写的英语作文中的错误,对于提高其自身的学习能力和改进大学英语教学具有很大的现实意义.     

浅议语感在英语教学中培养的方法与途径

正如球类运动员要熟知球性，游泳运动员要深谙水性，学习音乐的人要有乐感一样，学习英语也要有语感。所谓英语语感，就是人们对英语语言的感觉，即人们对英语的语音感受、语意感受、语音情感色彩的感受等。这种从语音、语意、语言情感等方面感知能力的不断提高，对英语学习者提高对英语语言的语言规则、组织方法等语言规律，提高对英语语言的理解能力和运用能力，具有非常重要的作用。虽然语感随着语言实践的积累必然会发生或发展，但教师采取有效措施去有意识地培养学生的语感，会促进学生语感的早日形成和优化。那么，在英语教学中如何培养学生的语感能力呢？     

雅思考试与大学英语教学

与雅思考试听力相比,大学英语应试教学的有许多弊病。为了提高学生语言实用能力,教学者要端正教学目的,并把文化教育和反映进步的语言变革融入大学英语课堂教学之中,提高大学英语教学质量。     

浅析大学英语教学改革的方向与策略——以提高英语听力能力为视角

听力教学是基于应用英语能力培养的核心内容,当前大学英语教学改革的进程不断向前推进,听力教学毫无疑问将是改革的重要组成部分。文章首先深入分析了听力教学工作中重要的影响因素,然后探讨了教学工作中有效提高英语听力能力的基本策略,希望能为英语教学改革提供借鉴意义。     

语言学界在“中国英语”研究中的误区与回归

英语"本土化"成为近些年来语言学界研究与争论的热门话题,英语"中国化"、"中国英语"成为中国学者们倡导的主流。但中国作为英语的"外圈"国家推崇英语本土化将会带来一系列严重后果,而且,从语音语调、构词成句以及语篇结构来重新构建中国化的英语体系势必造成语言的效度降低。以英国英语或美国英语的官方标准实施中国的英语教学,才是学界和外语教育界的主题和追求。     

论英语交际能力与交际文化

语言和文化紧密相连,文化依靠语言并影响和制约着语言交际,英语教学离不开文化教育.在英语教学中,要让学生识别英汉两种文化的差异,提高学生的交际能力。     

立足新教材,深化高等教育成人英语教学改革——兼评新编全国成人高校统一《英语》系列教材

面向二十一世纪的高等教育的成人英语教学是深化教学改革,全面推进素质教育的一个重要组成部分。面对新世纪的挑战,更新教育观念,采用新的教学手段以提高高等教育成人英语教学质量,势在必行。应在把握新编全国成人高校统一教材《英语》主教材及其多媒体教学与辅导光盘特点和意义的基础上,从四个方面深化高等教育成人英语教学改革:重视以文化教育为主的“素质教育”;着重学用结合,培养学生的语言交际能力;充分利用多媒体课件进行教学;充分发挥新编《英语》主教材多媒体课件的优势,努力弥补其不足。     

关于大学英语中的英美文学教学探析

语言本身就是一种文化,一个国家的文学作品反映了该国经济、文化的精髓。英美文学在大学英语教学中的重要作用不可忽视。它为学生提供语言典范,为培养高素质人才提供文学素养,为大学生学习英语用于有效交际提供背景阐释。本文主要分析了大学英语教学中引入英美文学教学的意义,并提出英美文学教学改革思路、实现途径与方法建议,为提高大学英语教师英美文学的教学效果进行有益探讨。     

Special report on taxation. Prepare for impending legislation that could threaten your tax-exempt status!

With impending federal action, and the likelihood of "copycat" legislation at the state and local levels if a federal statue is adopted, nonprofit hospitals need to ensure that they will be in compliance if a mandatory charity care bill were to become law. Such facilities should take the initiative now, by clearly articulating their charity care policies and by describing their other undercompensated or uncompensated activities that are maintained in order to benefit their communities. They should also ensure that all of their activities that could be counted as charity care or community benefit are fully documented and quantified. Financial consultants and counsel may be helpful in this process. Exempt facilities also should, of course, closely monitor the progress of the bills discussed above. Most importantly, they should continue to test their charity care and community benefit statistics on a regular basis to determine if their facilities meet the thresholds specified in the bills as they proceed through Congress.     

Young innovative companies: Are they high performers in transition economies? Evidence for Vietnam

We study the economic value of both embodied technological change and Research and Development (R&D) investment as proxies for the inputs of innovative activities conducted by Vietnamese firms. Our main focus is on the profitability of young innovative companies (YICs), private innovative companies (PICs), and small and young companies (SYCs). In particular, we test whether YICs could prove successful in fostering economic development through their technological change activities. Results show that (a) although YICs are more R&D intensive and innovative than PICs and SYCs, in general they do not produce equivalent performance; however those specific YICs focusing on technological change potentially outperform their counterparts, and (b) PICs are more capable than the other types of firms in translating their innovative effort to higher profitability.     

POLICE OFFICERS' ATTITUDES,BEHAVIOR, AND SUPERVISORY INFLUENCES: AN ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM SOLVING*

This paper examines the influence of officers' and supervisors' attitudes and priorities toward community policing and problem solving over the time officers spend conducting problem‐solving activities. Analyzing data collected for the Project on Policing Neighborhoods, a multi‐method study of police patrol in two police departments, results show that officers' perceptions of their supervisors' priorities for problem solving affect the amount of time they spend conducting these activities, although their own attitudes toward community policing are unrelated to their behavior. We also find that officers' attitudes regarding problem solving are weakly correlated with their supervisors' attitudes and, further, that officers' perceptions of their supervisors' attitudes are often inaccurate.     

Slack resources,exploratory and exploitative innovation and the performance of small technology-based firms at incubators

This paper aims to contribute (1) to the understanding about how small technology-based firms in spite of being constrained by limited resources, can still perform exploratory and exploitative innovation and (2) to extend knowledge about the role of slack resources in the context of small technology-based firms in facilitating those innovation activities. Herein, we focus on two types of slack resources: internal slack, resources that are available within the firms and external slack, additional resources that are gathered through the facilitation of external sources such as business incubators. Using a sample of 141 small technology-based firms located at incubators, this study combined two streams of research on incubator studies and innovation to construct some hypotheses examining the role of slack resources and innovation activities in enhancing the performance of small technology-based firms operating in incubator setting. Our findings demonstrate that neither slack resources nor innovation activities alone explain firm performance. Instead, small technology-based firms fit their innovation activities to their slack resources. While the relationship between internal slack and performance is mediated by exploitative innovation, exploratory innovation plays a role as a mediator for the relationship between external slack and performance.     

The influence of low self-control on violent and nonviolent delinquencies: a study of male adolescents from two Chinese societies

Low self-control is theorized to be a key correlate of delinquency. Using a nonadjudicated sample (N = 1057) from Hong Kong and Macau, the influence of self-control on self-reported violent and nonviolent delinquencies was investigated using Grasmick’s self-control scale. The influences of demographics and self-control on delinquency were also examined. Findings indicate that these adolescents are more likely to engage in overall delinquency, particularly violence, if they are older and if they are less educated. Age is the only demographic predictor of nonviolent delinquency. Risk-seeking behaviors and self-centeredness have significant influences on both violent and nonviolent delinquencies, while low frustration tolerance and preference for cognitive activities are only associated with an increased level of violent misconduct. These findings highlight the overall significant influence of self-control on adolescent delinquency in Chinese adolescents. Suggestions are offered to enhance adolescents’ self-control as a way to reduce their tendency to involvement in delinquent activities.     

The potential of collaborative learning as a tool for forensic students: Application to signature examination

Transferring theoretical knowledge to practical skills remains a big challenge in forensic science, especially in questioned documents. The examination of handwriting and signatures requires years of practice to develop the necessary skills. While students (and to some extent the general population) often have the impression that it is easy to differentiate handwriting from different persons, in practice, particularly when dealing with simulated signatures, there is a high risk of reaching a wrong conclusion when questioned document experts do not use a systematic approach and/or are not sufficiently experienced (see for example the famous French Dreyfus case). Thus, a novel teaching approach, based on collaborative learning, has been introduced in a theoretical handwriting class to improve the students’ theoretical knowledge, and additionally make them aware of the limitations of their practical skills and give them tools to improve them in their future practice. Through five activities, the students took the roles of victims, forgers, teachers and experts and created their own learning materials (i.e. signatures and mock casework). During those interactive activities, they learned to describe their signature’s characteristics, intra-variability and complexity, and thus evaluate their own signature’s vulnerability (as potential victims). They learned techniques to simulate signatures and detect the resulting forgeries’ characteristics (in the role of forgers). In the role of teachers, they prepared mock casework scenarios and gave feedback to their colleague’s examination of the produced material. As experts, they carried out signature examination as they would in a proficiency test and were exposed to the difficulties an actual expert may encounter in practice. The evaluation of this novel teaching scenario was very positive, as students learned more extensively the possibilities and limitations of signature comparison. They were more active and motivated in their learning experiences. The teaching team also had an improved experience. Some students complained of an increased workload and imprecise instructions. Improvements were tested and are discussed in this paper.     

The contribution of universities to growth: empirical evidence for Italy

New entrepreneurial ventures may represent a viable and effective mechanism to transform academic knowledge into regional economic growth. We test this notion for the Italian provinces between 2001 and 2006. We evaluate three outputs of academic activities: teaching, research and intellectual property rights activities. New ventures may be able to transform the mentioned outputs into improved economic performance. The findings show that the effects of academic outputs on provincial economic growth (all sectors) are appreciable when they are associated with sustained entrepreneurial activities in the province. It suggests that academic inquiry may provide new ventures with valuable commercial opportunities overseen by established companies.     

The forensic or medicolegal autopsy. Friend or foe?

The major issue in questioning the performance of general pathologists doing medicolegal or forensic autopsies is that they are very often without a firm basis for performing this task. With minimal training in medical school and minimal exposure during their residency, practicing general pathologists, although expected or even forced to do these cases, may face criticism after their performance in a case. The necessity for teaching forensic medicine and pathology in medical schools is obvious, and the necessity of there being more forensic pathology exposure in residency training programs in the United States and overseas is also obvious. Medical educators are responsible for all phases of medicine being taught to medical undergraduates and graduates and must be pressured to support the practice of all kinds of medicine in American communities, including legal or forensic medicine, in those cases in which questions arise that lead to the performance of postmortem examination.     

Eyewitness Memory,Suggestibility, and Repeated Recall Sessions in Children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities

This study of eyewitness memory questioned children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities (ID) about a live staged event 1 day later and, again, 2 weeks later. Children with mild ID performed as well as typically-developing children of the same age in response to free recall instructions, and they were just as able as same age peers to resist misleading questions. However, they performed more poorly on general questions, probing for further information after free recall. The children with mild ID also changed their responses to specific questions more often in the repeated interview. The group of children with moderate ID showed markedly lower performance than peers of the same age on nearly every type of eyewitness memory question. Comparisons of the children with ID to mental age-matched peers indicated that performance was similar, although children with ID gave more information in response to free recall instructions and changed their answers in the repeated interview more often. Standardized measures of verbal memory (TOMAL) and suggestibility (Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale) were modest to moderate predictors of eyewitness memory performance.