本书主要特色:
1.编者用一种比较全面的语言观研究大学专业英语教学,设计教材编写框架,编写本套教材。作者在编写本套教材时借鉴、吸取、融合。并创造性地运用了国内外多种语言学和语言教学研究成果(特别是专门用途英语(ESP/EAP)的教学研究成果),努力做到把国外先进实用的外语教学理论和方法,和我国长期以来所积累的行之有效的外语教学的经验和方法,我国大学专业英语教学对象的英语现状和要求,与《大纲(修订本)》的具体规定和指标四者相结合。
2.以积累专业英语基础知识和提高专业英语基本语言运用技能为目的,让学生从词汇、语段、篇章、思维方式等层面上学习和积累专业英语知识,全面训练并提高专业英语综合技能和交际能力。
3.全书选文均摘自国外近期出版的英文原版心理学、教育学教材和专著,从而使英语语言由浅入深,有系统性;使专业知识循序渐进,有连贯性;使专业英语语言的语料具有“原汁原味”的真实性。从多渠道多层面多角度向学生输入大量可理解可接受的语言信息,促使学生积极思考。
4.每个单元围绕一个专业知识主题,编选课文和设计思考题,便责学习者在大脑中反复重现课文内容,巩固和加深对课文的理解。另

Unit 1 Skills of Reading
1. The Reading Process
2. The Reading Strategies
3. Vocabulary Building
4. Rapid Reading
Unit 2 Skills of Writing
I. Abstract Writing
2. Writing in Social Sciences
3. Writing in Natural Sciences
Unit 1 History of Psychology
1. Introduction of Psychology
2. Wilhelm Wundt's Psychology of Consciousness
3. Functionalism at the University of Chicago
Unit 2 General Psychology
1. Learning and Human Intelligence
2. Motivation and Emotion
Unit 3 Developmental Psychology
1. The Long-Term Influence of Prenatal Behaviour
2. Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
Unit 4 Cognitive Psychology
1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
2. Characterising Problem Solving
Unit 5 Personality Psychology
1. What ls Personality?
2. Personal Constructs
Unit 6 Social Psychology
1. Theories in Social Psychology
2. Self-Presentation
Unit 7 Abnormal Psychology
1. Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
2. Mood Disorders
Unit 8 Psychological Testing and Statistics
1. The Nature of Tests
2. Psychological Statistics
Unit 1 Theory of Education
1. Reform of Education
2. Quality Education
Unit 2 Educational Administration
1. A Century's Quest to Understand School Leadership
2. Introduction to the National Commission for Cooperative Education (NCCE)
Unit 3 Moral Education /264
1. Should Moral Educators Abandon Moral Relativism?
2. Schemas, Culture, and Moral Texts
Unit 4 Philosophy of Education
1. Pragmatism and Education Research
2. Postmodernism and Education !
Unit 5 Teacher Education
1. Developing an Understanding of Learning to Teach in Teacher Education
2. Professional Knowledge and the Teacher's Life and Work
Unit 6 Sociology of Education and Comparative Education
1. Research and Theory on Equality and Education
2. The Future of Comparative and International Educa'~on in a Globalised World
Unit 7 Education Law and Policy /355
1. Discipline and Exclusion from School
2. Standards for Conduct, Routine Procedures, and Safe-School Policies
Unit 8 Assessment, Teaching and Learning Strategies
1. Strategies for Motivating Students and Building Productive Learning Communities
2. Assessment, Learning Theories and Testing Systems
1. Correlational Designs
2. Methods of Contextual Assessment and Assessing Contextual Methods: A Developmental Systems
Perspective
Unit 1 Vocabulary of Psychology
Unit 2 Vocabulary of Education
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