Surviving (thriving) in academia: feminist support networks and women ECRs

In this paper, we reflect upon our experiences and those of our peers as doctoral students and early career researchers in an Australian Political Science department. We seek to explain and understand the diverse ways that participating in an unofficial Feminist Reading Group in our department affected our experiences. We contend that informal peer support networks like reading groups do more than is conventionally assumed, and may provide important avenues for sustaining feminist research in times of austerity, as well as supporting and enabling women and emerging feminist scholars in academia. Participating in the group created a community of belonging and resistance, providing women with personal validation, information and material support, as well as intellectual and political resources to understand and resist our position within the often hostile spaces of the University. While these experiences are specific to our context, time and location, they signal that peer networks may offer critical political resources for responding to the ways that women's bodies and concerns are marginalised in increasingly competitive and corporatised university environments.     

语文"超文本"阅读教学的策略研究

阅读教学既要凭借文本又要超越文本,通过借助想象、多元解读、批判阅读、巧用资源、改编文本等手段进行"超文本"的阅读教学,是一种新的教学理念和策略.     

‘There Can Be No Revolution without Culture’: Reading and Writing in the Bolivarian Revolution

Under Hugo Chávez's ‘Bolivarian Revolution’, the government made itself present in all stages of literary production, applying the official idea of reading and writing as ‘socialist practices’. The Bolivarian government envisaged a popular counter‐hegemony, courting popular support while delegitimising cultural elites and reinforcing class tensions. Bolivarian cultural policy is anachronistic in an age of global literary markets, while the emphasis on a national collective of writers over internationally promoted representative writers of the revolution is particularly radical.     

"大学英语语篇阅读教学实验"研究报告

传统阅读教学较多关注单词、句子、语法等微观单位的分析、理解,未能从语篇的高度分析、理解文章,影响了学生阅读能力的培养和提高.语篇阅读教学着眼于语篇,高屋建瓴地引导学生学会把握单词之间、句子之间、段落之间的关联,从而实现对文章结构及含义的深刻理解.     

课堂教学中的英语阅读训练

英语的阅读能力考察了大学生的思维转换能力、逻辑分析能力和思维判断能力。要提高大学生的英语阅读水平,必须通过系统的训练,达到这3种能力的提高。     

Reading aloud as performance and its representation on television programmes for children

ABSTRACT

The social practice of reading aloud picture books to children, or shared reading, has been represented on many televisions programmes broadcast across English-speaking countries. This article views shared reading as a performance, and explores its transformation on two television shows for children and the potential of such shows to promote reading engagement and literacy development. Taking a critical multimodal perspective, we analyse shared reading in real life and on television as a social practice, focusing on the ways the participants talk about the picture book, relate it to exterior texts or activities, and legitimise shared reading through the employment of multimodal and interactive strategies. The analysis reveals significant differences between actual adult–child shared reading and its representation on television. The comparison illustrates the potential benefits and limitations of television shows in which picture books are read to the viewer, in terms of promoting shared reading among families and supporting young children’s emergent literacy development.     

Nazlı's photographic games: Said and art history in a contrapuntal mode

ABSTRACT

Through a focus on photographic portraits commissioned in the late nineteenth century by the Ottoman-Egyptian Princess Nazl? Han?m, Roberts analyses the ways they tested Ottoman and western conventions. An examination of Nazl?'s strategic engagement with photography in this period positions her within the often-separated domains of Egyptian nationalism, Ottoman political reform, western Orientalist art and a proto-feminist moment of Egyptian women's history. One of the striking things about the Nazl? portraits is their transgressive inventiveness. This is transgression as Edward Said defines it, with an emphasis on crossing boundaries, testing and challenging limits, and cutting across expectations. Nazl?'s inventiveness is apparent through her canny experimentation with the codes of portrait photography and the ways she deploys her portraits as tokens of exchange within her culture and with her European interlocutors. Roberts argues that Nazl? Han?m's use of photography operates in a contrapuntal mode in the Saidean sense of a simultaneity of voices that sound against, as well as with, each other. Over the last three decades Said's writings have provided a crucial methodological framework for the critique of western Orientalist visual culture. Recently art historians have repositioned this corpus of western imagery in relation to art by practitioners from the region and addressed cultural exchanges. Said's seminal text Orientalism has been pivotal within these debates. Yet it is not so much this landmark book, but rather Said's writings on music, in which we can find an alternative approach to cross-cultural exchange. By transposing this model into the domain of art history, Roberts engages with his notion of reading contrapuntally. Said was interested in the broader applicability of this term, although its potential as an interpretive model for the visual arts remains unexamined. Through this case study of Nazl? Han?m's photographs, Roberts reassesses the value of Said's writings on music for understanding nineteenth-century visual culture.     

运用需求分析指导英语阅读教学

高职院校学生英语水平起点低,英语教学面临一系列的挑战.为提高英语阅读教学水平,本文运用需求分析对学生的阅读需求作了相关调查,并选择两个班级作对比,分析、比较、了解了学生的英语阅读需求,以正确指导英语阅读教学.     

浅谈培养良好的阅读习惯与突破四级考试

学习外语首先应该会阅读外文资料,而这一点被认为是通晓语言的标志。良好的阅读习惯不仅可以提高阅读速度,而且可以保障准确度。占四级考试40％的阅读理解突破了,四级考试则易如反掌。     

浅谈英语学习方法

富有成效的英语学习,必须集听、说、读、写、译五方面的大量实践为一体。只有不间断地进行听说训练,并大胆开口讲英语,同时把握正确的阅读技巧,进行大量的练习,才能很好地形成用英语思维进行交流与写作的习惯,从而达到提高英语学习效果的目的。