Self-Directed Learning

Self-Access Language Learning (SALL) has played a prominent part in language education in universities. Its role is to foster autonomous learning among students. With the wide-spread implementation of SALL and its increasing impacts on students, it is important to understand how SALL is managed in order to meet the learning needs of the users in the most resource-effective way. This book provides readers with an understanding of SALL management by setting the discussion against a wider backdrop and also examining details of current good practice. The authors examine issues of leadership and management in education before turning to look at the roles of a SALL manager, and suggest how these roles are changing and what the future may hold for managing SALL. Case studies are used to illustrate how SALL is managed in different universities as a way of contextualising the issues discussed in the book. The book is of relevance to institutional and departmental managers, classroom-based lan

Yuan Haowen 元好問 (1190–1257) is one of the greatest Chinese poets of the past eight hundred years. He is especially famous for his poems lamenting the death and disorder that accompanied the decline, fall, and aftermath of the Jin dynasty, when the Mongols took over North China. Reading Yuan’s poems, one feels his intense pain at the demise of the dynasty and his deeply felt need to preserve the historical and cultural record of civilization as he knew it. The poems are distinguished by breadth of learning, linguistic creativity, and allusive depth. They also reveal an abiding sense of irony, and occasional self-directed wry humor. John Timothy Wixted’s treatment of 150 of Yuan Haowen’s poems distills available scholarship on the poet in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. The poems—lucidly introduced, interpreted, and explicated—are presented in romanization and translation as well as in the original. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

內容簡介 ˙The learning goals that center on the thematic units are set in accordance with the language proficiency levels, established by the ACTFL ˙To Comply with the pedagogical principle of backward design to establish the teaching/learning goals for the intermediate learner of Chinese ˙Integrates into its thematic contents the ACTFL-defined, three mores of language uses as well the 5C concepts ˙Assist the learner to achieve holistic progress and to cultivate specific linguistic abilities of Chinese ˙The selecting of keywords/phrases in thetextbooks is greatly in line with vocabulary levels defined by the HSK and by the TOCFL. The regional difference in language uses between the two sides of theTaiwan Strait are also meticulously annotated in the textbooks In recent years, the background of learners has become diversified, and the number of self-study students of elementary Chinese is also increasing. On the pedagogical front, however, learning materials, found to be biased towards s

日本開成名校→東大→在學期間一次考上司法特考律師的超強自學術！ 作者親證！不論大學考、資格考或取得MBA學位等，所有考試皆適用，任何人都能運用自如！ 地才也能靠有效率的自學讀書法拚上榜！ ◆日本亞馬遜暢銷書榜讀書法TOP1 ◆累積分析大量學生數據＋腦科學佐證 別把時間浪費在補習！ 東大在學通過司法特考菁英的自學自習讀書法！ 念書這件事，一成靠補習，九成仰賴自學自習。 東大菁英且在學通過司法特考律師，傳授展現最大成果的「自學力」。 鍛鍊自學力的「ＳＱＵＡＲＥ法則」 Ｓ：自習（Self-learning） Qu：熟記（Question） Ａ：克服（Advice） Re：反覆（Repeat） ．念書無法持續； ．考試當前，卻還沒念完全部的考試範圍； ．曾經答對的題目，再試一次卻答不出來； ．一遇上不懂的部分，便停滯不前； ．雖然認真念書，成績卻沒進步； ．雖然讀了教科書，實際答題時，卻依然答不出來； ．應已牢牢記住，卻還是忘記。 只要加以鍛鍊自學力，這些煩惱全都能迎刃而解。 【實用推薦】 孫易新博士 華人心智圖法大師 曾文哲 《不是資優生，一樣考取哈佛！》作者

天才徐安廬的父母著作，分享歐美與台灣的教育發展趨勢，以及徐氏夫妻在教養孩子的實際經驗與其他案例分享，讓關心如何能善用科技來培養孩子未來能力，以及如何利用創業訓練培養孩子成為全才的父母，有實務經驗的分享與實際方法作為依據與參考。其中也特別著重父母關心的孩子使用電腦問題，並根據科學研究和親身經驗提出解答與做法。 讓焦慮的父母不再焦慮，天才父母的經驗與做法！ 如何善用科技培養孩子未來的生存能力？ 如何用腦神經科學改變孩子的行為？ 如何能正確使用電腦，享受電腦的威力，不受電腦之害。 父母以為不好的，其實是好的！ 作者的親身經驗與實際教學分享， 父母與教育者的疑問完全解答！ 作者徐宏義與羅曼如長年關心教育與科技發展，因而成立了EDUx基金會，提倡以數位科技和新的學習方式，希望能改變下一代的學習方式。因為他們經常在與家長的交談中被問到一些重覆的問題，聽的的次數愈多，表示這是父母最關心的，或是最困擾的問題；再加上有些問題沒有人問到，多少表示許多家長或年輕人忽略了這些重要的問題。為了這些焦慮的父母，他們寫下了本書的內容。 作者在第一部分享他們在實驗教學裡碰到最大的問題是，小孩子在傳統的教育方式底下，養成出一種「只做你教我的」的習慣，於是在要求孩子自己發揮創造力時，有許多學生常常瞪著老師，不知道要如何思考。但是未來社會裡，許多事情都是全新或第一次碰到的，在無前例可循的狀況下，工作者就必須要能提出解決的辦法，創意、創新、創造力就變得很重要。因此第一章就是談如何訓練小孩的創造力。 第二章談自學（Self-Learning）。在傳統教育中，最大的問題是填鴨式的教育。作者指出許多有成就的人最大的特色之一是早早就輟學（離開學校的原因不一），但有一點不變的是，他們停止了學校教育但從未停止過學習。有些人甚至認為，離開學校才能真正開始學習。這就是自學的重要性。 第三章談無私的分享（Sharing），談到小孩社交生活的重要性。作者從人類的群性大腦（Social Brain）出發，談到小孩子如何由同儕合作，透過同儕學習的機會，學會如何領導與被他人領導，並且讓自己的學習更深入。 接下來，討論大腦和行為的相關性，深入探討如何讓小孩具備自我動機，他能自己驅動自己，追求他的熱情，是父母夢寐以求的事。但是許多父母的行為其實是反大腦學習，是撲滅學習動機的作法。作者在這一部提及何謂內在動機（Intrins

Originating from a genuine need of the secondary school teachers of English in Hong Kong to understand what it means to implement a task-based curriculum in the English classroom, this book aims to support and empower frontline ELT teachers in implementing a task-based approach systematically without losing sight of the importance of grammar teaching within the framework of tasks. Useful examples are provided to illustrate how grammar teaching can be conducted through meaningful tasks in authentic contexts. The importance of viewing assessment as an integral part of the learning, teaching and assessment cycle is also discussed with practical suggestions on developing assessment tasks and assessment assessment criteria provided. In the form of a self-learning package, this book can be readily used for independent self-study or as a school-based staff-development programme run by teachers themselves. Student-teachers of English, teacher educators and curriculum developers will also find