This study explores the integration path of ideological and political education in the course Design Thinking and Expression of environmental art design,aiming to enhance students’innovative thinking,social responsib...This study explores the integration path of ideological and political education in the course Design Thinking and Expression of environmental art design,aiming to enhance students’innovative thinking,social responsibility,and awareness of sustainable development.Based on the core philosophy of design thinking(people-oriented,problem-solving,and interdisciplinary collaboration)and the elements of ideological and political education in courses(moral education,cultural confidence,sustainable development,and social equity),the study proposes implementation paths for optimizing course objectives,adjusting course content,innovating teaching methods,and optimizing the evaluation system.Through project-based learning,situational teaching,and interdisciplinary collaboration,combined with practical cases such as historical district renewal,environmental design for rural revitalization,and green commercial space design,it has been verified that the effective integration of ideological and political elements in courses can enhance students’cultural identity,sense of social responsibility,and design innovation ability.This study provides theoretical support and practical demonstration for the ideological and political reform of environmental art design courses.In the future,interdisciplinary collaboration can be further deepened,social practice applications can be expanded,the evaluation system can be improved,and the systematic development of ideological and political courses can be promoted.展开更多
The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical...The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical thinking is viewed as the ability to envisage the world figuratively,perceive associatively,and express oneself creatively.It is crucial to recognize metaphors in texts,interpret the complex images they evoke,and generate new metaphors.It is especially needful in the current era of clip thinking and fragmented information processing when students often approach content superficially rather than comprehensively,leading to decreased cognitive activity and a diminished capacity to understand literature.To foster metaphorical thinking,the paper suggests building a text associative-semantic field focusing on metaphors.Due to its hierarchical structure,which can be envisioned as a dense nucleus surrounded by a central region of synonyms and further enveloped by a periphery of more loosely associated linguistic units,the text associative-semantic field is seen as a potent solution for facilitating improved visualization and more holistic comprehension of information,allowing students for expanding their vocabulary and strengthening associative connections.Notably,the study highlights analyzing the metaphors of emotional states as they contribute significantly to a more profound interpretation of the text,understanding the writer’s unique style,deepening the students’engagement with the book,and expanding their emotional experiences.展开更多
Selected Readings in American Literature is a required course for the third year of English major,and it is also a compulsory course for the Bachelor Degree of English Language and Literature at School of Foreign Lang...Selected Readings in American Literature is a required course for the third year of English major,and it is also a compulsory course for the Bachelor Degree of English Language and Literature at School of Foreign Languages,Leshan Normal University.The course uses the combination of English literary reading and course paper writing to develop students’English reading and writing skills,while focusing on the cultivating critical thinking skills of English majors.展开更多
According to the purposes of reading,it is divided into two Parts:language learning and information acquiring. Information acquiring is based on the purpose of gaining knowledge and information,language learning is ba...According to the purposes of reading,it is divided into two Parts:language learning and information acquiring. Information acquiring is based on the purpose of gaining knowledge and information,language learning is based on the purpose of improving. The two parts supplement each other,Hence,language learning is based on information acquiring. The way of thinking in reading and the accuracy of understanding can improve students' English level.展开更多
To improve students' critical thinking is considered as a top priority by a growing number of educators.While there exists a comparable amount of research examining students' critical thinking skills,less is k...To improve students' critical thinking is considered as a top priority by a growing number of educators.While there exists a comparable amount of research examining students' critical thinking skills,less is known about students' tendency to use these skills.Specifically,little is known about what influence critical thinking disposition has on students' academic achievement.English reading comprehension,which has been an important composition in students' English achievement,may be an important factor in developing this disposition.The current study examined the characteristics of students' critical thinking disposition and their English reading comprehension as well as exploring the correlation between the two factors mentioned above.The current study involved in 125 sophomores in English major from Jiangsu province.The results indicated that students in current research performed best in Maturity (M=37.46,SD=3.57),followed by Inquisitiveness (M=36.64,SD=4.31),Analyticity (M=34.86,SD=3.70),Truthseeking (M=33.86,SD=4.08).In contrast,they performed worst in CT Confidence (M=33.17,SD=4.57),followed by Systematicity (M=33.49,SD=5.10) and Open-mindedness (M=33.50,SD=3.67).Students scored highest in Attitude and View Category as the mean was 0.8257,followed by Reasoning and Judgment Category (M=0.8128),Induction and Generalization Category (M=0.7612),Theme Topic Category (M=0.6844),Semantic Comprehension Category (M=0.6789),while scored lowest in Fact and Detail Category (M=0.5818).There existed a positive correlation between critical thinking disposition and reading comprehension achievement (n=109;r=0.300;p<0.01).展开更多
Learning to read is a vital,complex task which can be made easier if we expand the conventional conceptualizations of reading.Many have wisely advised educators about expanding beyond understanding reading primarily a...Learning to read is a vital,complex task which can be made easier if we expand the conventional conceptualizations of reading.Many have wisely advised educators about expanding beyond understanding reading primarily as an act of decoding visual,printed symbols into words,phrases。展开更多
Reading and writing are input and output respectively. The relation between reading and writing is closely related. Reading is the preparation for good writing. And writing theory or law can provide readers some clues...Reading and writing are input and output respectively. The relation between reading and writing is closely related. Reading is the preparation for good writing. And writing theory or law can provide readers some clues for better understanding. The relation between reading and writing can help our English teaching in and out class. Also the way of thinking influences our reading and writing.展开更多
The human beings can express the outside world and their mental feelings by languages, they know the materials＇ nature by comparing with their similarities. The languages are not only tools in understanding,communica...The human beings can express the outside world and their mental feelings by languages, they know the materials＇ nature by comparing with their similarities. The languages are not only tools in understanding,communication and thinking, but also one element of the cultures. Thinking is a kind of abstract skill, and the language is the vehicle of thinking, through which people can understand the human beings＇ thinking methods and cultural characters. The languages are decided by the culture. Reading comprehension is the readers＇ own behavior, during which the schema plays a key role and readers must combine the new information with their former cultural knowledge, rebuilding the new information so as to understand the deep meanings of the articles.展开更多
Academic English reading requires deeper cognitive involvement in addition to language proficiency and plays a vital role in moulding a critical mindset. However, cognitive progress is seldom targeted in classroom tea...Academic English reading requires deeper cognitive involvement in addition to language proficiency and plays a vital role in moulding a critical mindset. However, cognitive progress is seldom targeted in classroom teaching. This study proposed a teaching method of three reading phases in terms of cognitive mechanism and communicative teaching approach.Ninety university freshmen of non-English major participated in the study, who were taking the course of Academic English Reading in the 2nd semester. The data were collected from self-report Research Skills Assessment twice and semi-structured interview, and analyzed with paired sample t test and Pearson correlation. The results showed that 1） “critical thinking”, “organizing ideas”, and “finding information” were believed to improve significantly at the end of the course; 2） reading skill was associated with writing skill and the sense of “big picture” in self perception; 3） the cognition-based interactive reading instruction was acknowledged to be conducive to academic reading. It complements Academic English reading pedagogy by juxtaposing the need for both individual cognition and group interaction in classroom teaching.展开更多
What actually happens when we read? Some people think thatwe read one word at a time, understand it and then go on to thenext. Other people think that our eyes smoothly glide over each linefrom left to right. then bac...What actually happens when we read? Some people think thatwe read one word at a time, understand it and then go on to thenext. Other people think that our eyes smoothly glide over each linefrom left to right. then back to the beginning of the next line, andso on. In fact, the physical process of reading usually doesn’twork in either of those ways.展开更多
This paper analyzes the importance of critical thinking to junior middle school English reading ability.This paper probes into the cultivation of critical thinking in English reading ability from the perspective of te...This paper analyzes the importance of critical thinking to junior middle school English reading ability.This paper probes into the cultivation of critical thinking in English reading ability from the perspective of teachers and students,and discusses the problems based on the questionnaire survey.展开更多
Critical thinking is all the more potent in the context of the greater inundation of information,let alone its benefits regarding English learning.Learning a language inevitably brings us into contact with the ideas a...Critical thinking is all the more potent in the context of the greater inundation of information,let alone its benefits regarding English learning.Learning a language inevitably brings us into contact with the ideas and cultures behind it—the essence and the dregs.Considering how can you learn English without being influenced by a negative culture,to learn it through critical thinking can be potentially regarded as an answer to that question.Rested on the analysis of critical thinking applied by English learners,this paper provides practical methods and guidance for the learning of English reading.展开更多
This paper studies the strategies to improve students' thinking quality in junior high school English reading teaching, hoping to give some guidance to junior high school English teachers, so that students can con...This paper studies the strategies to improve students' thinking quality in junior high school English reading teaching, hoping to give some guidance to junior high school English teachers, so that students can continuously improve their thinking ability in class reading learning, and realize in-depth reading and overall improvement.展开更多
In junior high school English teaching, reading teaching is one of the links that cannot be ignored, which directly affects the students' language expression ability, oral communication ability, and writing abilit...In junior high school English teaching, reading teaching is one of the links that cannot be ignored, which directly affects the students' language expression ability, oral communication ability, and writing ability and so on. Through the literature study of English reading teaching in junior high schools, it can be seen that there are great differences in English reading ability among junior high school students, and the students' thinking quality is uneven. In view of this, the effective measures of English reading teaching will be listed in this study, so as to improve the thinking quality and language expression ability of junior middle school students.展开更多
The goal of Chinese teaching is mainly to enable students to master the culture of their mother tongue and the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. On this basis, they can read literature, history, natu...The goal of Chinese teaching is mainly to enable students to master the culture of their mother tongue and the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. On this basis, they can read literature, history, natural science and other articles to broaden their horizons and enrich themselves. Reading is an important way to understand the deeper content of an article. Therefore, attention should be paid to the cultivation of good reading habits of low-grade primary school students. This paper focuses on how to cultivate the reading thinking ability of the lower grade Chinese in primary schools and puts forward appropriate training strategies.展开更多
As one of the outstanding figures in the pre-Reform Movement in the nineteenth century,Marcel was known to us by his fa-mous proposal of"reading first".However,he and his proposal were unfairly neglected by ...As one of the outstanding figures in the pre-Reform Movement in the nineteenth century,Marcel was known to us by his fa-mous proposal of"reading first".However,he and his proposal were unfairly neglected by his contemporaries and his successors.In fact,thisproposal was based on a rational theory of reading: the cognitive process of reading and the distinction between impression and expression.This proposal is worth attending to afresh.展开更多
WORI is the Production-Oriented Approach to reading in the TEFL context of China. It is intended to enhance English learners＇ proficiency in writing and reading. By asking questions to draw learners＇ attention to th...WORI is the Production-Oriented Approach to reading in the TEFL context of China. It is intended to enhance English learners＇ proficiency in writing and reading. By asking questions to draw learners＇ attention to the professional writers＇ choices concerning organization, development, style, and diction, teachers explicitly guide learners to observe, analyze, study, apperceive, so as to learn about their writing thinking and strategies. By designing a variety of reading-to-write tasks, teachers endeavour to activate learners＇ writing thinking developed in writing-oriented reading activities to have such writing thinking fixed in mind and internalized. The WORI also fosters English learners＇ autonomy of sustaining development in reading, writing, as well as their English learning.展开更多
In Chinese teaching, reading teaching has become a top priority. It is necessary for children to feel the joy of reading and improve their reading ability. How to guide students to stimulate and cultivate students'...In Chinese teaching, reading teaching has become a top priority. It is necessary for children to feel the joy of reading and improve their reading ability. How to guide students to stimulate and cultivate students' thoughts and feelings of loving the native language through reading teaching? I think we can start from three levels, from the superficial to the deep taste of the language, so that it can be gradually realized.展开更多
Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstac...Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstacles the students might confront in their reading. This essay makes a summary of various difficulties that hinder the students＇ successful reading comprehension, from the aspects of vocabulary, sentence and grammar, understanding of a passage, habits of reading, logic thinking, meanings of language and culture background.展开更多
基金“Curriculum Ideological and Political Education”Demonstration Project of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications:Design Thinking and Expression(Environmental Design)(XKCSZ2251)Construction and Practice of the Ability Training System for“Internet+”Design Talents to Serve Rural Revitalization(233231)。
文摘This study explores the integration path of ideological and political education in the course Design Thinking and Expression of environmental art design,aiming to enhance students’innovative thinking,social responsibility,and awareness of sustainable development.Based on the core philosophy of design thinking(people-oriented,problem-solving,and interdisciplinary collaboration)and the elements of ideological and political education in courses(moral education,cultural confidence,sustainable development,and social equity),the study proposes implementation paths for optimizing course objectives,adjusting course content,innovating teaching methods,and optimizing the evaluation system.Through project-based learning,situational teaching,and interdisciplinary collaboration,combined with practical cases such as historical district renewal,environmental design for rural revitalization,and green commercial space design,it has been verified that the effective integration of ideological and political elements in courses can enhance students’cultural identity,sense of social responsibility,and design innovation ability.This study provides theoretical support and practical demonstration for the ideological and political reform of environmental art design courses.In the future,interdisciplinary collaboration can be further deepened,social practice applications can be expanded,the evaluation system can be improved,and the systematic development of ideological and political courses can be promoted.
文摘The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical thinking is viewed as the ability to envisage the world figuratively,perceive associatively,and express oneself creatively.It is crucial to recognize metaphors in texts,interpret the complex images they evoke,and generate new metaphors.It is especially needful in the current era of clip thinking and fragmented information processing when students often approach content superficially rather than comprehensively,leading to decreased cognitive activity and a diminished capacity to understand literature.To foster metaphorical thinking,the paper suggests building a text associative-semantic field focusing on metaphors.Due to its hierarchical structure,which can be envisioned as a dense nucleus surrounded by a central region of synonyms and further enveloped by a periphery of more loosely associated linguistic units,the text associative-semantic field is seen as a potent solution for facilitating improved visualization and more holistic comprehension of information,allowing students for expanding their vocabulary and strengthening associative connections.Notably,the study highlights analyzing the metaphors of emotional states as they contribute significantly to a more profound interpretation of the text,understanding the writer’s unique style,deepening the students’engagement with the book,and expanding their emotional experiences.
基金This paper is one of the research results of Key Research Project on the Reform of Education&Teaching in Leshan Normal University:The Cultivation and Practice of Students’Critical Thinking Ability in the Core Courses of English Majors(JG2015-ZD02).
文摘Selected Readings in American Literature is a required course for the third year of English major,and it is also a compulsory course for the Bachelor Degree of English Language and Literature at School of Foreign Languages,Leshan Normal University.The course uses the combination of English literary reading and course paper writing to develop students’English reading and writing skills,while focusing on the cultivating critical thinking skills of English majors.
文摘According to the purposes of reading,it is divided into two Parts:language learning and information acquiring. Information acquiring is based on the purpose of gaining knowledge and information,language learning is based on the purpose of improving. The two parts supplement each other,Hence,language learning is based on information acquiring. The way of thinking in reading and the accuracy of understanding can improve students' English level.
文摘To improve students' critical thinking is considered as a top priority by a growing number of educators.While there exists a comparable amount of research examining students' critical thinking skills,less is known about students' tendency to use these skills.Specifically,little is known about what influence critical thinking disposition has on students' academic achievement.English reading comprehension,which has been an important composition in students' English achievement,may be an important factor in developing this disposition.The current study examined the characteristics of students' critical thinking disposition and their English reading comprehension as well as exploring the correlation between the two factors mentioned above.The current study involved in 125 sophomores in English major from Jiangsu province.The results indicated that students in current research performed best in Maturity (M=37.46,SD=3.57),followed by Inquisitiveness (M=36.64,SD=4.31),Analyticity (M=34.86,SD=3.70),Truthseeking (M=33.86,SD=4.08).In contrast,they performed worst in CT Confidence (M=33.17,SD=4.57),followed by Systematicity (M=33.49,SD=5.10) and Open-mindedness (M=33.50,SD=3.67).Students scored highest in Attitude and View Category as the mean was 0.8257,followed by Reasoning and Judgment Category (M=0.8128),Induction and Generalization Category (M=0.7612),Theme Topic Category (M=0.6844),Semantic Comprehension Category (M=0.6789),while scored lowest in Fact and Detail Category (M=0.5818).There existed a positive correlation between critical thinking disposition and reading comprehension achievement (n=109;r=0.300;p<0.01).
文摘Learning to read is a vital,complex task which can be made easier if we expand the conventional conceptualizations of reading.Many have wisely advised educators about expanding beyond understanding reading primarily as an act of decoding visual,printed symbols into words,phrases。
文摘Reading and writing are input and output respectively. The relation between reading and writing is closely related. Reading is the preparation for good writing. And writing theory or law can provide readers some clues for better understanding. The relation between reading and writing can help our English teaching in and out class. Also the way of thinking influences our reading and writing.
文摘The human beings can express the outside world and their mental feelings by languages, they know the materials＇ nature by comparing with their similarities. The languages are not only tools in understanding,communication and thinking, but also one element of the cultures. Thinking is a kind of abstract skill, and the language is the vehicle of thinking, through which people can understand the human beings＇ thinking methods and cultural characters. The languages are decided by the culture. Reading comprehension is the readers＇ own behavior, during which the schema plays a key role and readers must combine the new information with their former cultural knowledge, rebuilding the new information so as to understand the deep meanings of the articles.
基金supported by the Excellent Teacher Cultivation Program of UESTC under Grant No.Y02025023701051
文摘Academic English reading requires deeper cognitive involvement in addition to language proficiency and plays a vital role in moulding a critical mindset. However, cognitive progress is seldom targeted in classroom teaching. This study proposed a teaching method of three reading phases in terms of cognitive mechanism and communicative teaching approach.Ninety university freshmen of non-English major participated in the study, who were taking the course of Academic English Reading in the 2nd semester. The data were collected from self-report Research Skills Assessment twice and semi-structured interview, and analyzed with paired sample t test and Pearson correlation. The results showed that 1） “critical thinking”, “organizing ideas”, and “finding information” were believed to improve significantly at the end of the course; 2） reading skill was associated with writing skill and the sense of “big picture” in self perception; 3） the cognition-based interactive reading instruction was acknowledged to be conducive to academic reading. It complements Academic English reading pedagogy by juxtaposing the need for both individual cognition and group interaction in classroom teaching.
文摘What actually happens when we read? Some people think thatwe read one word at a time, understand it and then go on to thenext. Other people think that our eyes smoothly glide over each linefrom left to right. then back to the beginning of the next line, andso on. In fact, the physical process of reading usually doesn’twork in either of those ways.
文摘This paper analyzes the importance of critical thinking to junior middle school English reading ability.This paper probes into the cultivation of critical thinking in English reading ability from the perspective of teachers and students,and discusses the problems based on the questionnaire survey.
文摘Critical thinking is all the more potent in the context of the greater inundation of information,let alone its benefits regarding English learning.Learning a language inevitably brings us into contact with the ideas and cultures behind it—the essence and the dregs.Considering how can you learn English without being influenced by a negative culture,to learn it through critical thinking can be potentially regarded as an answer to that question.Rested on the analysis of critical thinking applied by English learners,this paper provides practical methods and guidance for the learning of English reading.
文摘This paper studies the strategies to improve students' thinking quality in junior high school English reading teaching, hoping to give some guidance to junior high school English teachers, so that students can continuously improve their thinking ability in class reading learning, and realize in-depth reading and overall improvement.
文摘In junior high school English teaching, reading teaching is one of the links that cannot be ignored, which directly affects the students' language expression ability, oral communication ability, and writing ability and so on. Through the literature study of English reading teaching in junior high schools, it can be seen that there are great differences in English reading ability among junior high school students, and the students' thinking quality is uneven. In view of this, the effective measures of English reading teaching will be listed in this study, so as to improve the thinking quality and language expression ability of junior middle school students.
文摘The goal of Chinese teaching is mainly to enable students to master the culture of their mother tongue and the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. On this basis, they can read literature, history, natural science and other articles to broaden their horizons and enrich themselves. Reading is an important way to understand the deeper content of an article. Therefore, attention should be paid to the cultivation of good reading habits of low-grade primary school students. This paper focuses on how to cultivate the reading thinking ability of the lower grade Chinese in primary schools and puts forward appropriate training strategies.
文摘As one of the outstanding figures in the pre-Reform Movement in the nineteenth century,Marcel was known to us by his fa-mous proposal of"reading first".However,he and his proposal were unfairly neglected by his contemporaries and his successors.In fact,thisproposal was based on a rational theory of reading: the cognitive process of reading and the distinction between impression and expression.This proposal is worth attending to afresh.
文摘WORI is the Production-Oriented Approach to reading in the TEFL context of China. It is intended to enhance English learners＇ proficiency in writing and reading. By asking questions to draw learners＇ attention to the professional writers＇ choices concerning organization, development, style, and diction, teachers explicitly guide learners to observe, analyze, study, apperceive, so as to learn about their writing thinking and strategies. By designing a variety of reading-to-write tasks, teachers endeavour to activate learners＇ writing thinking developed in writing-oriented reading activities to have such writing thinking fixed in mind and internalized. The WORI also fosters English learners＇ autonomy of sustaining development in reading, writing, as well as their English learning.
文摘In Chinese teaching, reading teaching has become a top priority. It is necessary for children to feel the joy of reading and improve their reading ability. How to guide students to stimulate and cultivate students' thoughts and feelings of loving the native language through reading teaching? I think we can start from three levels, from the superficial to the deep taste of the language, so that it can be gradually realized.
文摘Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstacles the students might confront in their reading. This essay makes a summary of various difficulties that hinder the students＇ successful reading comprehension, from the aspects of vocabulary, sentence and grammar, understanding of a passage, habits of reading, logic thinking, meanings of language and culture background.
