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09-04-2008, 07:23 PM
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رقم المشاركة : [24 (permalink)]
| | بدأ النشاط | New requirement
New requirement The New Standards of English Curriculum, in 2002, carried out by China’s Ministry of Education National Curriculum Research Committee has clearly stated a) In the present English curriculum, learning resources عفوا ,,, لايمكنك مشاهده الروابط لانك غير مسجل لدينا [ للتسجيل اضغط هنا ]should be fully utilized and exploited; the resources should be closely related to the student’s experience, life, and modern world. (b) Learning materials from English audiovisual programs, TV news, newspapers, periodicals, and Internet information should fully be made use of in the curriculum through various teaming tasks.(c) Students should be encouraged to develop and use the resources actively. The standards have also put forward that students should learn to appreciate and comprehend simplified original works, English newspapers and periodicals provided for them. Hence,عفوا ,,, لايمكنك مشاهده الروابط لانك غير مسجل لدينا [ للتسجيل اضغط هنا ] ENR course quite live up to the requirement of China’s Ministry of Education and available.1.3.2 Reading requirement The Teaching Requirement of College English عفوا ,,, لايمكنك مشاهده الروابط لانك غير مسجل لدينا [ للتسجيل اضغط هنا ]Curriculum (2004) began to propose that basically read domestic newspapers in English is the general requirement;عفوا ,,, لايمكنك مشاهده الروابط لانك غير مسجل لدينا [ للتسجيل اضغط هنا ] basically read English-speaking countries popular newspapers and magazines of general theme of the article is high demand; learn to use the original materials and edit the English-speaking countries of articles in newspapers and magazines is the highest demand. As to the English majors, they not only raised the needs toعفوا ,,, لايمكنك مشاهده الروابط لانك غير مسجل لدينا [ للتسجيل اضغط هنا ] be able to read English newspapers and magazines, and generally move the editorials and book reviews, but also consciously adjusted in accordance with the needs of reading and reading skills in reading. It is known that English is able to express one’s ideal and used in reality world, and that the correct output must be based on the rich input of the language. In addition, the more the reading materials relate to life and nature, the more interest the students have. Therefore, English teachers should provide students with proper and adequate reading materials to widen students’ field of vision and increase their opportunity of reading original English.2. Introduction of English newspapers referring to this study2.1 Characteristics of English newspapersGenerally speaking, different types of newspapers have some common characteristics. English newspapers have five elements: public, frugality, interesting, timeliness and objectivity. Newspapers are the public media, and the words of writing must be suitable for a large number of readers, and the language must be easily understood. The editors treasure newspaper layout, providing as much information as possible in the limited space. Newspaper has been an emphasis on fun to attract readers. Moreover, timeliness is also a value of the newspapers. Objectivity is needed in pure news on the prospective criteria. A newspaper tends to be in many sections, such as political affairs, economic evens, sports and culture, campus study and life, social life, sciences and technology, and so on. Most of English newspapers have a regulate page make-up, special words and short headline. There are a great number of phrases, abbreviations and omit words and sentences in English newspapers. You may know what the passages talk about through reading headline and lead words. The motivations are of some interests or informational value to students to read and write. Above all, articles are well constructed. They illustrate principles of good organization. This enables students to recognize structural and semantic clues that indicate the important ideas and to organize their own ideas in a coherent fashion.
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