USING OF MICRO-MOVIES FOR TEACHING CHINESE WRITING AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN TAIWAN

This study is aimed to discuss the effectiveness of teaching junior high school students how to write creative Chinese composition by means of micro movies in Taiwan. In the experiment, 60 eighth-grade junior high school students in Pingtung County were recruited as participants and divided into the experiment group (31 students) and the control group (29 students). Eight teaching experiments were carried out in addition to the pre- and post- experiment tests. As suggested in the findings, by using micro-movies, the students’ writing performance was improved in terms of the content, organization, general writing rules, creative thinking and the overall scores while students’ writing motives were improved in terms of writing emotion, writing ability, writing function/utility and overall scores in the classrooms. Students in the experiment group showed greater writing performance in terms of the content, organization, general writing rules, creative thinking, and the overall scores than those in the control group. As to writing motives, significant difference was found in terms of writing emotion, writing function/efficiency and the overall scores

Evangelical Friend, January 1972 (Vol. 5, No. 5)

Bold new plan for church growth Growing local churches, denominational leaders, and seminaries must all reevaluate their strategy. Cover and page 2 Editorials What will be new in \u2772?,Ann Landers\u27 word to pastors. Page 5. 1971 - Religion in review Kingdom against kingdom is Norman Rohrer\u27s way of describing what happened in the religious world last year. Page 6 Missionary Voice The Missionaries - who are they? 10Your missionary picture album 11East meets West 15 God nudges a sleepy traveler 15 Significant developments on the fields 16 If the foundation be destroyed Walter Lee puts a finger on a delicate problem. Page 20 News of Friends New president named for Malone College 22Quaker named Oregon Teacher of the Year 24 On Russian worship today Reflections of a visit with Russian Christians. Page 22 Regular Features The Face of the World 4Over the Teacup 17The Children\u27s Page 18Books 23 Next Month Do Friends have distinctive views regarding funerals? Eugene Collins will present, A Christian view of death. Dr. Everett Cattell, retiring president of Malone College, will share his concern for the future mission of the Christian college . .. and the Friends Church. ---------- Northwest Supplementhttps://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend/1050/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, April 2, 1996

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Spartan Daily, December 6, 1996

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Expectations eclipsed in foreign language education: learners and educators on an ongoing journey / edited by Hülya Görür-Atabaş, Sharon Turner.

Between June 2-4, 2011 Sabancı University School of Languages welcomed colleagues from 21 different countries to a collaborative exploration of the challenging and inspiring journey of learners and educators in the field of language education.\ud \ud The conference provided an opportunity for all stakeholders to share their views on language education. Colleagues met with world-renowned experts and authors in the fields of education and psychology, faculty and administrators from various universities and institutions, teachers from secondary educational backgrounds and higher education, as well as learners whose voices are often not directly shared but usually reported.\ud \ud The conference name, Eclipsing Expectations, was inspired by two natural phenomena, a solar eclipse directly before the conference, and a lunar eclipse, immediately after. Learners and educators were hereby invited to join a journey to observe, learn and exchange ideas in orde

UB Breakthroughs Summer 2016

The UB Breakthroughs newsletter for summer of 2016. This issue contains articles discussing Dr. Faezipour's research into a smartphone app for skin cancer detection, Dr. Katsifis' research into the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of heavy metals, Dr. Oberleitner’s research into the link between social isolation and exclusion and physical and emotional pain, Dr. Lee’s classes and camps teaching college and high school students big data analytics, professor Good’s study into teaching chiropractic warm-up with resistance bands, professor Brett’s research into the safety and efficacy of electro-acupuncture, Dr. Picardi’s research into employee and employer perceptions and how to create better matches in employment, Dr. Richmond’s new book examining African-American student activism in the northeast from the 1960s through 2015, Dr. Xiong’s new MEMS-based sensor for detecting miniscule air pollutants, UB’s 3-D Printing and Advanced Manufacturing Center, Dr. Wei’s study of China and international relations regarding the South China Sea, and Dr. Pallis’ support of the UB CanSat Competition team

Spartan Daily, November 7, 1980

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Trialing project-based learning in a new EAP ESP course: A collaborative reflective practice of three college English teachers

Currently in many Chinese universities, the traditional College English course is facing the risk of being ‘marginalized’, replaced or even removed, and many hours previously allocated to the course are now being taken by EAP or ESP. At X University in northern China, a curriculum reform as such is taking place, as a result of which a new course has been created called ‘xue ke’ English. Despite the fact that ‘xue ke’ means subject literally, the course designer has made it clear that subject content is not the target, nor is the course the same as EAP or ESP. This curriculum initiative, while possibly having been justified with a rationale of some kind (e.g. to meet with changing social and/or academic needs of students and/or institutions), this is posing a great challenge for, as well as considerable pressure on, a number of College English teachers who have taught this single course for almost their entire teaching career. In such a context, three teachers formed a peer support group in Semester One this year, to work collaboratively co-tackling the challenge, and they chose Project-Based Learning (PBL) for the new course. This presentation will report on the implementation of this project, including the overall designing, operational procedure, and the teachers’ reflections. Based on discussion, pre-agreement was reached on the purpose and manner of collaboration as offering peer support for more effective teaching and learning and fulfilling and pleasant professional development. A WeChat group was set up as the chief platform for messaging, idea-sharing, and resource-exchanging. Physical meetings were supplementary, with sound agenda but flexible time, and venues. Mosoteach cloud class (lan mo yun ban ke) was established as a tool for virtual learning, employed both in and after class. Discussions were held at the beginning of the semester which determined only brief outlines for PBL implementation and allowed space for everyone to autonomously explore in their own way. Constant further discussions followed, which generated a great deal of opportunities for peer learning and lesson plan modifications. A reflective journal, in a greater or lesser detailed manner, was also kept by each teacher to record the journey of the collaboration. At the end of the semester, it was commonly recognized that, although challenges existed, the collaboration was overall a success and they were all willing to continue with it and endeavor to refine it to be a more professional and productive approach

Spartan Daily, November 7, 1980

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Spartan Daily, November 7, 1980

Volume 75, Issue 49https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6685/thumbnail.jp