Using Bloom\u27s taxonomy to teach college English in China: A handbook for educators

With the modernization and globalization of China, the Chinese need to study and utilize English to be a part of the world. College students are essential to learning English. However, the purpose of college English in China still focuses on the national College English Tests. College students are not able to meet their original goal of learning English. The purpose of this project is to create some teaching materials that improve students’ motivation and ability to learn English instead of raising exam grades. The project is a handbook which composes two model units based on Bloom’s taxonomy. Each unit contains four model lesson plans which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Educators can adapt these lesson plans in the classroom and learn how to apply Bloom’s taxonomy to their own teaching situations. All in all, this handbook provides educators with different samples of the application of Bloom’s taxonomy in teaching materials. For teachers, applying Bloom’s taxonomy optimizes their teaching methods and strategies. They can avoid using only one teaching approach. Also, they have a chance to better interact with students. College students will have benefits from the teaching materials and increase their motivation to learn English. Therefore, students can attain more sense of achievement in learning English

Sexual Harassment by Top Managers: Impacts on Public Company

We investigate firms that fired the CEOs who are accused of sexual harassment and make this information public instead of entering into Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA), and we find that sexual harassment of CEOs have no significant influence on firm and firms do not suffer from the negative market reactions and long-term consequences. Contrary to precious literature suggesting the firm should enter into Non Disclosure Agreement because of its negative effects on firm, we believe that firing the accused CEO will not negatively affect firm and director should have more incentive to dismiss them instead of entering into NDA with victims. For CEOs who engaged in this event suffer the consequence from the labour market, because majority of them cannot obtain an equivalent job in job market as shown in our results. In very few cases they do, they are not hired by public firms. Moreover, we also find that the directors who made the dismissal decision of CEO did not suffer from the consequences and the number of employees was not affected by this event in 3 years either