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Direct linkLi, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Since 2000, translator and interpreter trainers have been arguing against the use of a transmissionist approach and for the use of a transformationist approach. Such a change in instructional approach is rooted in a shift in trainers' beliefs from behaviourism to social constructivism/situated learning. Teachers' beliefs on the nature of knowledge…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Translation, Educational Change, Constructivism (Learning)
Howards, Melvin – 1985
A teacher educator describes his teaching experience in China and his finding that the Western behaviorist, alphabetic, linear mode of thinking has been widely adopted in education in that traditionally ideographic culture. The contrasting relationships of language, thought and behavior in the American and Chinese cultures is examined, and it is…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
