02536nam 2200517 450 991046353120332120170822103727.01-61149-528-81-61149-486-9(CKB)2670000000574394(EBL)1832665(SSID)ssj0001368956(PQKBManifestationID)12464978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368956(PQKBWorkID)11307104(PQKB)11442249(MiAaPQ)EBC1832665(EXLCZ)99267000000057439420150310h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives finding the thing itself /Maximillian E. NovakNewark, [Delaware] :University of Delaware Press,2015.©20151 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-485-0 1-322-24903-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form; 2 Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not; 3 The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's Fiction; 4 Novel or Fictional Memoir; 5 Meatless Fridays; 6 Edenic Desires; 7 Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe; 8 "Looking with Wonder upon the Sea"; 9 The Cave and the Grotto; 10 "The Sum of Humane Misery"?; 11 Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author<span><span>Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer.</span></span>Realism in literatureElectronic books.Realism in literature.823/.5Novak Maximillian E.131989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463531203321Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives2252727UNINA03256nam 22004815 450 991029954510332120240627161855.09789811319631981131963410.1007/978-981-13-1963-1(CKB)4100000006999211(MiAaPQ)EBC5541367(DE-He213)978-981-13-1963-1(EXLCZ)99410000000699921120181005d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Study on the Washback Effects of the Test for English Majors (TEM) Implications for Testing and Teaching Reforms /by Qian Xu, Jun Liu1st ed. 2018.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (262 pages)9789811319624 9811319626 Chapter One TEM: A High-Stakes Standardized Test in the Chinese Context -- Chapter Two Washback: Definitions and Dimensions -- Chapter Three Theoretical Framework for Washback Studies -- Chapter Four Research Framework for TEM Washback Study -- Chapter Five Stakeholders' Perceptions of TEM and Its Washback -- Chapter Six Classroom Practice and the Washback of TEM -- Chapter Seven Implications for the Reform of Testing and Teaching -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III.This book adopts a multi-method and multi-phase approach to investigate the washback effects of Test for English Majors (TEM) on program administrators, teachers and students, shedding new light on TEM reform and the reform of English teaching and learning in China. TEM, a nationwide test used to measure the language proficiency of undergraduate English majors in China, is a major standardized test taken by nearly 400,000 students every year. The book’s key features include: an in-depth discussion of the nature of washback and a framework for investigating it; a multi-method and multi-phase approach, employing both the quantitative method of questionnaire surveys and the qualitative methods of interviews and classroom observations; large-scale questionnaire surveys conducted among experts, program administrators, teachers and students, and involving over 30,000 participants; detailed assessments of TEM’s washback effects on stakeholders’ perceptions, classroom teaching practice, students learning activities, etc.; and essential insights into testing and teaching reforms.Language and languagesStudy and teachingEducational tests and measurementsLanguage EducationAssessment and TestingLanguage and languagesStudy and teaching.Educational tests and measurements.Language Education.Assessment and Testing.428.0071051Xu Qianauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059469Liu Junauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910299545103321A Study on the Washback Effects of the Test for English Majors (TEM)2505947UNINA