主講人：陸小飛（美國俄亥俄州立大學語言學系博士、云山講座教授）
時間：2014年5月8日（周四）下午2:30—4:30
地點：六教A209
主辦單位：人事處、教師發展中心
承辦單位：英語語言文化學院
講座語言:英語
講座內容簡介：
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for raising the level of text complexity in textbooks used by American students across all grade levels; the authors of the English language arts component of the CCSS build their case for higher complexity in part upon a research base they say shows a steady decline in the difficulty of student reading textbooks over the past half century. In this interdisciplinary study, we offer our own independent analysis of third and sixth grade reading textbooks used throughout the past 115 years. Our dataset consists of 8,041 reading texts selected from 117 textbook series issued by 30 publishers, resulting in a corpus of roughly 10 million words. Each reading text in the corpus was assessed using a large set of readability, lexical complexity, and syntactic complexity measures. Contrary to previous reports, we find that text complexity has either risen or stabilized over the past half century; these findings have significant implications for the justification of the CCSS as well as for our understanding of a “decline” within American schooling more generally.
主講人簡介:
陸小飛，美國俄亥俄州立大學語言學系博士，現任美國賓州州立大學文學院吉爾瓦茨語言與語言學杰出青年教授和應用語言學系副教授，廣東外語外貿大學英文學院云山講座教授。主要研究領域為語料庫語言學，計算機輔助教學和第二語言習得，在語料庫語言學領域享有較高的國際聲譽。已在國際權威期刊發表論文十余篇。其第一本關于語料庫語言學研究方法的專著于今年三月由德國施普林格出版社出版。
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人事處、教師發展中心
2014年5月5日
EN
白云山校區
