• 環境與領導者,對您有多重要?You Gotta Change So Drastically!

    高新綠到麻省理工之後,聽到的一句最重要的話:「You gotta change so drastically that your parents don't even recognize you」(3:02)

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  • Deliberate Practice 刻意練習--Notstupid AI Design 我不笨的人工智慧設計原理

    「我不笨」(notstupid) 生字複習APP的設計原理,學術上稱為「刻意練習」,也就是所謂的「做中學」。本文將簡要回答學習者們常問的兩個問題: (a) 強化學習效率的原理。(b) 人工智慧的餵字邏輯。

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  • BBE 致力研究 Extensive Reading/Viewing & Comprehensibility Facilitator

    在 input theory 之下,使用「哈利波特的原文書」來做學習素材,雖然相當有趣,但卻因為太困難,而無法達到「可理解」(comprehensible)的要求。所以,目前廣泛閱讀的主流學習素材為「graded reader」,其按照不同的語言程度來寫小故事,供廣泛閱讀的教學使用。然而,此種書輯的內容不夠「真實」(authentic),因此雖可以理解,卻無法達到「超級有趣」(compelling)的要求。在 Krashen (2009) 的一篇文章裡(DO EFL STUDENTS LIKE GRADED READERS?)指出,僅有 4% 的學習者認為 graded reader 的故事超有趣。

    有鑑於此,BBE 捨棄 graded reader 的作法,改採廣泛視聽 (Extensive Viewing) 的模式,利用 YouTube 以及 Netflix 等影片做為學習素材,並致力於開發輔助工具 (facilitator) 以及認知文法 (comprehensive grammar) 來降低真實世界的學習素材的理解挫折 (comprehensive frustration),進而保留學習素材的知識和娛樂品質。此做法有以下優勢:

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  • 謝孟媛--國高中文法

    在廣泛閱讀/視聽的邏輯下,文法不應該存在。然而,基本的文法概念卻有利於廣泛閱讀的核心理論「comprehensible input」,因此,我們推荐學習者也要了解一些基礎文法才好,本文推荐謝老師的文法教學影片課程,除了推荐給學習者,更推荐給立志當老師的學習者觀摹其教學方法。然而請注意以下幾點:

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  • Internal/External Validity: the Control of Independent, Dependent, and Extraneous Variables in Laboratory or Field Experiments.

    Internal Validity (IV): The extent to which we can say that the effect is actually caused by the manipulation. The key point is to take good control of manipulation implementation & Extraneous Variable. Field experiment is inevitably bad for IV but good for External Validity (EV)--the extent to which the effect found can be replicated or generalized to the real world settings.

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  • in order to, on an eye to, for the sake of, due to concerns over, in an effort/attempt to, in support of, in hopes of, in the hope that, in pursuit of, in an effort to「為了」的英文用法

    in order to 為了…
    on an eye to為了…
    for the sake of 為了…(接名詞
    due to concerns over 基於對…考量、關心(concern本身是「憂慮」或者「重要的事」
    due to sth concerns 基於 …考量、關心
    in an effort to 為了努力使…
    in an attempt to 為了嘗試去…
    in support of 為了支持
  • 英語描述「因為&結論&因此&結果」

    本文簡介「because, since/as, owing to, due to, thanks to, by virtue of, therefore, thus, summary, conclusion, so, so that, so as to, if so, as such, this/that way, in that case, on that note, at this rate, by/in doing so, Now then, ergo, in essence, basically, takeaway, in brief/in short, simply put, in a nutshell, all in all, all things considered, to sum up, in conclusion, in the end, at the end of the day, so again, then again」。當我們在論述概念時,需要利用一堆因果的串連字,最後還要附個總結。這些字有時是放在小段落裡,有時在整篇文章的結尾,有時只是前一兩句話洐生出來的結果,其各自都有使用情境上的細微差異。此外,英語講究盡量別重覆使用同一個英語,應該使用一些替換用字。本文蒐集相關教學影片,加上筆者摘要以及新聞例句供讀者參考。

    當「因為」使用時,As/Since 的理由很明顯,是一種補充語氣的用法。例如 We should head back since/as it's starting to rain. 至於 for 則是用於文學體,會搭配一些文藝的用語。例如 Abigail lowered her head and wept, for she knew her Tom was dead. 正常狀況,就使用 because / because of / owing to / due to 例如 The concert has been cancelled owing to lack of interest. 如果要強調順序,可使用 as a result of / as a consequence of / in the wake of。

    in this/that regard

    in the wake of = 起因於(字面上是說因為…的起床)

    thanks to = by virtue of 注意到 virtue = an advantage or good thing = 優點;好處

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  • Especially, particularly, in particular 英文的意思和用法

    especially sth(注意本句插在句中,常用 em-dash 而不是逗號

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