著名教授论坛第232讲：A corpus-based study of linguistic complexity of the American reading curriculum: Historical changes and implications for educational policy

主讲人：陆小飞（美国俄亥俄州立大学语言学系博士、云山讲座教授）

时间：2014年5月8日（周四）下午2:30—4:30

地点：六教A209

主办单位：人事处、教师发展中心

承办单位：英语语言文化学院

讲座语言:  英语

讲座内容简介：

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.

主讲人简介:

陆小飞，美国俄亥俄州立大学语言学系博士，现任美国宾州州立大学文学院吉尔瓦茨语言与语言学杰出青年教授和应用语言学系副教授，广东外语外贸大学英文学院云山讲座教授。主要研究领域为语料库语言学，计算机辅助教学和第二语言习得，在语料库语言学领域享有较高的国际声誉。已在国际权威期刊发表论文十余篇。其第一本关于语料库语言学研究方法的专著于今年三月由德国施普林格出版社出版。

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人事处、教师发展中心

2014年5月5日