Developing and evaluating language courseware

The paper sets out twenty proposals for the development and evaluation of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) programs. These proposals emerge from special characteristics of language instruction and of the use of computers to assist in language instruction. We combine theoretically-based assumptions with empirical findings drawn from investigation of language courseware for Hebrew speakers in Israel. We first list four unique features of language instruction: (1) the object-language-meta-language distinction; (2) computer as written medium vs. language as primary spoken medium; (3) teaching of second language skills vs. linguistics; (4) the computer as an electronic tool vs. the computer as a cognitive entity simulating the speaker. We then show how these unique characteristics of language instruction (mother-tongue and foreign language) impose special proposals on language courseware. These proposals should be observed in the development of language courseware and in the evaluation of such programs. Clearly, these proposals integrate with general courseware proposals. Michal Ephratt (Ph.D., computational linguistics) completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Rochester. She has been on the staff of the Dept. of Hebrew Linguistics, University of Haifa, since 1988. Some of her publications include Root-Pattern Array: The Main Tool of Hebrew Word Formation (Hebrew University, 1985); and What's in a Joke? in Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Knowledge-based Systems (Springer-Verlag, 1990).This paper is based on work the author did as a consultant in the National Courseware Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education. I wish to thank Esther Diamant, head of the department, for making the study possible.     

Why does language matter to artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence, conceived either as an attempt to provide models of human cognition or as the development of programs able to perform intelligent tasks, is primarily interested in theuses of language. It should be concerned, therefore, withpragmatics. But its concern with pragmatics should not be restricted to the narrow, traditional conception of pragmatics as the theory of communication (or of the social uses of language). In addition to that, AI should take into account also the mental uses of language (in reasoning, for example) and the existential dimensions of language as a determiner of the world we (and our computers) live in. In this paper, the relevance of these three branches of pragmatics-sociopragmatics, psychopragmatics, and ontopragmatics-for AI are explored.     

电子政务环境下福建省政府信息能力的提升

分析了政府信息能力的内涵,提出电子政务对于政府信息能力的提升作用是从改善政府信息资源的构成要素和提高政府信息资源的应用能力两方面来体现,总结了当前福建省政府信息能力的现状,并提出了如何通过电子政务进一步提升福建省政府的信息能力。     

提高地方院校信管专业学生实践能力的途径研究

为了提高地方院校信管专业的竞争能力,将实践能力和地方性特色培养融入到学校教育中,成为了现在地方院校信息管理与信息系统专业教育的重中之重。论文首先强调了信管专业学生实践能力培养的重要性。然后通过调查比较找出目前各地方院校信管专业实践教育体系存在的不足之处。最后以南通大学为例具体研究提高南通大学信管专业学生实践能力的途径。     

检验标准管理系统的设计与实现

检验标准管理系统从工作实际出发,采用VisualBasic来制作交互介面,MicrosoftAccess作为后台支持的数据库来管理数据信息,从而实现产品质量检验机构的检验标准管理自动化。该系统是从服务客户和检验人员的角度出发,本着为客户提供准确、快捷、方便服务和更好管理本单位检验标准、方便检验人员使用的原则,可使检验机构大量的检验标准信息得以快捷管理,缩短了客户办理检验业务的时间,以及检验人员检验过程中快速查询使用检验标准的相关信息。本管理系统主要完成:对检验标准中数据的增加、数据的删除、数据的查询和数据的浏览。     

一流本科专业建设背景下高校“金课”建设研究

一流本科专业建设是新时代高等教育体制创新的重要举措,是高校贯彻科教兴国战略的落脚点。通过对“金课”建设的现状进行调查,以国际交流英语课程为切入点,分析了过于强调语言技能训练、“两性一度”尚有距离、不符合创新人才培养举措的问题,提出了“金课”建设的措施,即厘清课程实践目标、优化课程建设结构、丰富课程建设形态、提升教师实践能力,为高素质人才培养提供了新思路,实现高等教育的高质量发展。     

论大学生社会责任感的培养

社会责任感的重要性在当今社会里凸显出来。可是，在多种因素的作用下，部分大学生的社会责任感却趋于淡化，这使大学生难以担负起历史的重任。对于部分大学生重才而轻德的现象，高等教育应该承担一定社会责任，这种社会责任就在于强化大学生的社会责任感。     

浅析科技英语中词义的汉译

通过实例阐述了在进行科技英语的汉译时,只有根据原文的专业、行业、技术内容、词的本义和可能的引伸义,结合词的上下文语境,才能准确、恰当地确定英语词义的汉译。文章指出明白通畅、浅显易懂、准确的词义是科技英语汉译成功的基础。     

企业文化需要追求个性创新发展

企业文化理论从20世纪80年代提出以来,经过20多年的实践,如今发展快、口号多、落地难,有的演变为企业文化的“作秀”。要提升企业核心竞争力,必须在塑造优秀企业文化中,追求企业个性,避免雷同,求得创新发展。     

半固态A356合金微观组织特征对充型能力的影响

采用电磁搅拌法制备了具有不同微观组织特征的半固态A356合金浆料,用图像分析软件对浇注前浆料金相试样的初生相微观组织特征进行了测定,利用间接挤压铸造方法铸造阿基米德螺旋线试样,以挤压成形后的螺旋线试样长度衡量充型能力,通过多元回归,建立了半固态A356合金初生相微观组织特征与充型长度之间的数学表达式。结果表明:半固态浆料充型能力不仅与初生相微观组织特征参数有关,微观组织特征参数的交互作用对充型能力的影响也较大。利用该表达式可以对半固态浆料充型能力进行预测,进而指导半固态浆料制备参数设计、间接挤压铸造工艺设计和缺陷预测。