Objective To explore the English newspaper reading activities which are well-suited for medical students. Methods At the end of an optional course News in English, a question-naire investigation was conducted among 86 enrolled students on their degree of preference for the 8 kinds of news reading activities designed for this course. Questionnaire data were processed by SPSS 13.0 software. Percentages were calculated and ANOVA tests were employed to compare the prefer-ence degree between different activities. P<0.05 signifies statistical differences. Results The prefer-ence degree for all the 8 activities were above 3 out of a total of 5. The score for most activities fell between 3 and 4. Each activity was ‘liked’ or ‘loved’ by more than half of students. There was no significant difference either between the scores for the 8 activities, or between the scores of each activ-ity for different semesters(P>0.05). Conclusions The eight types of English news reading activities are well suited for the interest of most medical students. Nevertheless, they still need improving in several aspects to increase students’ interest in newspaper reading and further motivate them in relat-ed English learning activities, including selection of text material.
To rationalize the teaching process of English news course for student of non-English major, a survey among the 149 students who took the course at Peking University Health Science Center were conducted. Students' attitudes toward English news and evaluation of the course had been collected and accordingly some suggestions was raised on how to improve the teaching model of English news course,hoping to contribute to the teaching of optional English courses for medical students.
本文通过对英语词汇搭配教学研究所提及的常见搭配错误和教学原则进行综合阐述,总结了中国学生在词汇搭配方面所存在的不足和教学应采取的一些方法.对词汇搭配的进一步研究和教学中应注意的事项具有指导性意义.
这种古老的养性健身术正在美国流行，人们对于此健身术的推崇，使得众人有机会把自己所了解到的关于爱情和性事的知识提高到一个新水平。我们所处的时代对于精神层次新的崇拜使得现代社会比以往任何时期都更容易接受这种健身术。此外，由于生活受到高科技的强烈冲击，人与人之间的接触越来越少，而“唐乐可”能提供机会让人们建立令人向往的有意义的亲密接触。
This article discusses the findings based on a survey among 567 Chinese college students on their use of lexical collocations of different types and within different co-occurrence frequency ranges. For the 567 participants involved in this investigation the average score on the test is 46.06(out of a total of 100), significantly lower than that on a simultaneous vocabulary size test. Their performance on the first type of collocations (verb+noun) is significantly better than that on all the other type, while the fourth type (noun+of+noun) proved to be the most difficult one for learners to master. The results suggest medical students need to improve their collocation proficiency, especially in the type 4 (noun+of+noun), and special care must also be given to type 2(adj./noun+noun) and type 3(noun+verb) collocations.
