The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the ...The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei M展开更多
Based on the variational principle, a continuum theory of surface elasticity and new boundary conditions for qua- sicrystals is proposed. The effect of the residual surface stress on a decagonal quasicrystal that is w...Based on the variational principle, a continuum theory of surface elasticity and new boundary conditions for qua- sicrystals is proposed. The effect of the residual surface stress on a decagonal quasicrystal that is weakened by a nanoscale elliptical hole is considered. The explicit expressions for the hoop stress along the edge of the hole are obtained using the Stroh formalism. The results show that the residual surface stress and the shape of the hole have a significant effect on the elastic state around the hole.展开更多
A class of steady-state metal-forming problems,with rigid-plastic,incompressible,strain-rate dependent material model and nonlocal Coulomb’s friction,is considered.Primal,mixed and penalty variational formulations,co...A class of steady-state metal-forming problems,with rigid-plastic,incompressible,strain-rate dependent material model and nonlocal Coulomb’s friction,is considered.Primal,mixed and penalty variational formulations,containing variational inequalities with nonlinear and nondifferentiable terms,are derived and studied.Existence,uniqueness and convergence results are obtained and shortly presented.A priori finite element error estimates are derived and an algorithm,combining the finite element and secant-modulus methods,is utilized to solve an illustrative extrusion problem.展开更多
文摘The production-oriented approach （POA） has been developed over a decade. It is driven by the need to improve English classroom instruction for university students in China （Wen, 2016）. It is also motivated by the aspiration to enhance the quality of foreign language education in other similar pedagogical contexts outside China. A volume of research has been done by Wen Qiufang and her research team, to formulate the theory of POA and to test its effectiveness in classroom pedagogy （e.g. Wen, 2016, 2015; Yang, 2015; Zhang, 2015）. At the moment, the POA is still at an early stage of theory building and almost all empirical research is done in the Chinese context. In order to improve the quality of this theory and to make it intelligible to the international academic community, a one-day symposium was held in Beijing Foreign Studies University on May 15, 2017. The symposium was entitled ＇The first international forum on innovative foreign language education in China： Appraisal of the POA＇. In the forum, leading experts in applied linguistics were invited to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the POA and the directions for its future development. The symposium was the first attempt for the POA research team to discuss its latest work with international scholars. This Viewpoint section collects the responses of four experts who participated in the symposium, listed in alphabetical order. The collection of articles covers three topics related to the POA： its pedagogical application, its use for teacher training, and its research. Alister Cumming is Professor Emeritus and the former Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, University of Toronto, Canada. His article focuses primarily on POA research as an exemplary case of design-based research. Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. He discusses POA in terms of pedagogy, teacher training and research, with both critiques and constructive suggestions. Paul Kei M
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11072104,1272053,and 11262017)the Key Project of the Chinese Ministry of Education(Grant No.212029)+3 种基金the Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation,China(Grant No.2013MS0114)the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Department of Public Education,China(Grant No.NJZZ13037)Program for Young Talents of Science and Technology in Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,China(Grant No.NJYT-13-B07)Program of Higher-Level Talents of Inner Mongolia University,China(Grant No.125125)
文摘Based on the variational principle, a continuum theory of surface elasticity and new boundary conditions for qua- sicrystals is proposed. The effect of the residual surface stress on a decagonal quasicrystal that is weakened by a nanoscale elliptical hole is considered. The explicit expressions for the hoop stress along the edge of the hole are obtained using the Stroh formalism. The results show that the residual surface stress and the shape of the hole have a significant effect on the elastic state around the hole.
文摘A class of steady-state metal-forming problems,with rigid-plastic,incompressible,strain-rate dependent material model and nonlocal Coulomb’s friction,is considered.Primal,mixed and penalty variational formulations,containing variational inequalities with nonlinear and nondifferentiable terms,are derived and studied.Existence,uniqueness and convergence results are obtained and shortly presented.A priori finite element error estimates are derived and an algorithm,combining the finite element and secant-modulus methods,is utilized to solve an illustrative extrusion problem.
