首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
You will hear a conversation between Miss Green, an educational journalist, and Professor Wilson, an expert in educational studi
You will hear a conversation between Miss Green, an educational journalist, and Professor Wilson, an expert in educational studi
admin
2016-07-10
22
问题
You will hear a conversation between Miss Green, an educational journalist, and Professor Wilson, an expert in educational studies, about writing in American schools. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 10 by circling TRUE or FALSE. You will hear the conversation only once. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 1 to 10.
M: Professor Wilson, recently, I read a report, saying that writing in schools is found to be both dismal and neglected, because students and teachers have to spend a lot of time preparing for external assessments given by the State. You have been a strong advocator for teacher and student rights. You wrote about the politics of education in "Testing is not teaching" in 2002. How have things changed since you first wrote about writing in the 1970s?
W: In my report to the Ford Foundation in 1976, I documented how the government founded no research in the teaching of writing. It was a polling how little opportunity there was to research writing. I actually got the first grant from the government in 1978 for my study in Atkinson, New Hampshire. There was also a cover story by News Week with a title "Why Johnny can’t" that was around 1977, as I recalled. So there was a burst of advantage for writing in the early 80s. The national writing project expanded dramatically and there was more research money for studying and writing. Even Ronald Reagon allowed funds to go to writing and its improvement, I was on his panel for excellence. I’ve learned that American educators and the government can maintain focus on the subject area for only so long. In the early 90s and continuing to the present, testing and accountability have become a major focus. They have become almost like curriculum in their own rights. They steal the focus from learning and, more particularly from writing.
M: What impact have federal decisions had on our schools? What has this meant for the teaching and writing?
W: Testing and the emphasis on reading have stolen large blocks of time from writing. Writing requires human power and time to evaluate whatever is admitted. Reading on the other hand is much cheaper to assess. The No Child Left Behind Act is all about reading. The authors of the bill didn’t realize just how much writing creates a different reader. Writ-
ing is the making of reading. People who construct things know far better how to take those things apart. The federal decisions want us to believe that it is much more important to find out if children are good receivers of information rather than good senders of information. In short, we don’t want their ideas but we do want to know if we can get the right answers about the information they should understand. In sum, for our political stand point, we don’t really want to know if they can write with a voice that has ideas and facts just to support those ideas.
M: What can teachers do when they find they have less time for writing?
W: Teacher should band together asking lots of questions both orally and in a writing. They need to ask questions such as " How important is writing in relation to reading?", " Do you think writing is a medium for learning to think? Why or why not?" To show how important the medium of writing is, we should put our questions in writing, then call for an appointment to have good dialogue with administrators and policy makers. Of course we need to have dialogue among ourselves about these matters first.
选项
A、TURE
B、FALSE
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0oWd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
InBritain,theHouseofCommonsisarepresentativeassemblyelectedbyvotersorelectorsthroughageneralelectionandby-el
WhichistheattitudeofthetelevisionindustrytowardsthedigitalFIDTV?
WhichistheattitudeofthetelevisionindustrytowardsthedigitalFIDTV?
ThefirstspeakerhassomeacademicperformanceintheUnitedStates.
Afteritsmisadventuresin1093,whenAmericanmarinesweredrivenoutofSomaliabyskinnygunmen,Americahasusedalongspoo
Inthenextcenturywe’llbeabletoalterourDNAradically,encodingourvisionsandvanitieswhileconcoctingnewlife-forms.
Asinternationalcommercegrows,thereisanamazingdevelopmentwhichisexpandingatever-increasingrate—businessontheInte
Answerquestionsbyreferringtothefollowinggames.Whichgame...ALikeyourmotorcyclegamesbig,bold,andbeautifu
Accordingtothepassage,whatdistinguishesmanypresent-daytheatersfromthosebuiltpriortothenineteenthcentury?Whywa
Inrecentyears,therehasbeenasteadyassaultonsaltfromthedoctors:Saltisbadforyou—regardlessofyourhealth.Politi
随机试题
在《恐龙》中,主人公“我”在离开荒漠高原后第一次遇见的活物是一群()
养阴清肺汤的组成中不含
关于腮腺多形性腺瘤手术的叙述,错误的是
居住区内公共绿地的总指标,根据居住人口规模,下面哪项是不正确的?
下列表述正确的有()。
在产品说明书中,正文是详细介绍产品信息的部分。正文的写作手法不包括()。
常用的美术字体(黑体、宋体以外)有__________美术字、__________美术字、__________美术字以及__________美术字。
简述古代西亚的主要文化成就。(华南师范大学2006年世界古代中世纪史真题)
家里没用的东西都处理了。
A、Sheislookingforapart-timejob.B、Sheisworkinginamotorfactory.C、Sheisdoingsomeresearchonclassicmusic.D、She
最新回复
(
0
)