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

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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.     

提高学生职业能力的高职人才培养模式探索

本文从高职教育的本质特征和社会发展需求的角度论述了高职教育培养学生职业能力的重要性,并探讨从专业设置、教学体系构建、师资队伍建设、就业指导等方面进行改革以提高学生职业能力的人才培养模式。     

我们需要怎样的阅读伦理？——回看罗蒂与艾柯、卡勒有关阐释限度的论争

在与艾柯、卡勒等人有关“阐释的限度”的论争中,罗蒂不仅以富于反讽性的论说策略对实用主义的阐释观做了生动的演绎,还通过一系列兼具力度与新意的论辩,将实用主义的哲学逻辑、文学诉求与政治考量渐次展开。其“阐释即使用”的主张提供了一条极有价值的思路：阐释的焦点不在限度而在目的和需要,因为后者关联着更大的难题,既是伦理难题,更是政治难题。     

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。     

论构建和谐社会的政府行政能力建设

构建和谐社会,是我国社会主义现代化建设的重要战略构想,也是一项全面系统的目标体系。它必然对政府行政能力提出诸多新的严峻的挑战,要求政府具备包括领导发展能力、行政整合能力、社会平衡能力、制度创新能力、公共服务能力、应急处置能力等在内的核心能力。要围绕这些核心能力,大力加强政府行政能力的开发与建设。     

浅谈公安院校学生创新精神和创新能力的培养

培养公安院校学生的创新精神和创新能力是提高学生综合素质,适应新时期公安工作需要的必然要求。培养的重点应放在如何提高学识水平、思维能力及问题意识等方面。做到充分利用课堂教学这个主阵地;加强实践教学,提高学生动手能力;创造条件,使学生早介入科研活动;支持和鼓励学生的个性发展;教师要更新知识提高授课水平。     

从《贺新郎·读史》看毛泽东的史学思想

《贺新郎·读史》是毛泽东的一篇重要词作,它反映了毛泽东丰富的史学思想。在中国古史分期问题上,毛泽东经历了一个由倾向于“西周封建论”到认同和支持“战国封建论”的变化过程。对于中国上古史上的“三皇五帝”等问题,毛泽东也有所关注和思考。这些都在一定程度上导引着新中国史学研究的发展方向。