第六屆澳門人文社會科學研究優秀成果獎在語言教育藝術範疇共收到著作17部，論文50篇，經評委認真評議，共甄選出五部著作和十篇論文獲獎。獲獎著作和論文均貼近澳門歷史與現實，主題涉及澳門回歸後的教育發展、教學評估與測試、土生文化研究、語言學研究、藝術研究、建築保育等，其中不乏填補學術空白之作。獲獎作品代表着澳門當前的學術水準，也為日後的研究提供了頗具價值的參照。
本書作為“澳門回歸二十年經驗叢書”之一，系統總結澳門回歸20年來澳門教育發展的成績與經驗。兩位作者利用過去十多年親身參與回歸後澳門教育制度的變革、法律法規和教育規劃的起草、課程改革及教材編寫等工作經驗，力圖全景式關注澳門教育回歸以來的變革。全書以基礎教育為重點，同時涉及高等教育的發展成就及未來方向。附錄的政策文獻和系統的統計資料，則可作為20年歷史發展的文獻和記錄，為未來的研究者提供歷史資料及線索。
Policy addresses are important governmental documents that convey the government's policies and publicize the government’s work plan set for the coming year, and at the same time, carry important information about social and economic developments. This paper studies the policy addresses of Macao SAR in the post-handover period from 2000 to 2017. It aims at investigating how the linguistic configurations reflect the ideologies constructed by the government in the post-handover period. With a corpus-assisted methodology, this paper applies discourse analysis to the investigation of the policy addresses given by the two chief executives of the four different terms of the Macao SAR government. The analysis shows that the diction in the policy addresses reflects the changes in the development of Macao and in the relationship between the government and the audience in the investigated period. It is argued that a corpus-assisted investigation can reveal how discourse is shaped by social practice and how discourse is used to help construct ideologies.
This book aims to use concepts such as identity, image and translation, thus intersecting Imagology or Image Studies with Descriptive Translation Studies, to analyse the images generated by the works of Gonzaga Gomes. This study offers the results of extensive research carried out in the Portuguese National Library to map the publications by Gonzaga Gomes as well as a paratextual and textual analysis, so as to unveil the poetic and ideological considerations of Gonzaga Gomes about Macanese identity.
During the reading of alphabetic scripts and scene perception, eye movements are programmed more efficiently in horizontal direction than in vertical direction. We propose that such a directional advantage may be due the overwhelming reading experience in the horizontal direction. Writing orientation is highly flexible for Traditional Chinese sentences. We compare horizontal and vertical eye movements during reading of such sentences and provide first evidence of a text-orientation effect on eye-movement control during reading. In addition to equivalent reading speed in both directions, more fine-grained analyses demonstrate a tradeoff between longer fixation durations and better fixation locations in vertical than in horizontal reading. Our results suggest that with extensive reading experience, Traditional Chinese readers can generate saccades more efficiently in vertical than in horizontal direction.
The team have collated and reported the test results of Macao-PISA 2018. From the perspective of international and comparative education, PISA helps the Macao Government understands the trend and pace of global education development based on educational big data, and allows educational policymakers to review whether Macao’s education has reached international standards according to the overall development, advantages and features of the basic education system, as well as the problems encountered, so as to adjust and formulate education policies.
While it has been well noted that novice EFL teachers are subject to identity change when transitioning from pre-service to novice stage, the nuanced process of such change remains underexplored. Based on data gathered from four novice EFL teachers in Macau, this paper examines such process using the constructs of imagined identities and the social representation theory. Findings from a qualitative interpretive analysis revealed four distinctive trajectories of identity shifts, i.e., renegotiation, evolution, establishment, and sustainment. These findings suggest that novice EFL teachers’identity shift is not a linear transformation from imagined identities formed in the pre-service stage to practiced identities in the novice stage, but a dynamic process mediated by personal beliefs, prior learning experiences, teaching practice, and the institutional exam-oriented culture. These findings call for attention to the resilient power of imagined identities and the role of affiliating with imagined communities in novice teachers’construction of practiced identities and to how novice EFL teachers' identity transition can be better scaffolded.
With reference to related historical archives and literature, this study conducted research into the history, the designer and the design dimensions of St. Paul's Church in Macao. The remaining drawing of the facade merely reflects the correlation deduction of each controlling point in its geometric drawing. Through digital analysis, this study has further obtained the "digitally-derived geometric design" relations of the five-layer elevation design drawing and number-rounding adjustment of the constructing dimensions: the application of the law of equal-partition in the horizontal direction, the application of the law of upward successivesubtraction in stratification in the vertical direction, and the complicated combination of golden-rectangle controlling designs. The latter two applications are key geometrical features of Baroque Architecture.
澳門雕刻工藝每個歷史時期在材質、主題上有各自特點。塑繪和裝飾等製作工藝，均有傳承下來的獨特技法，建構出澳門多元融合的雕刻工藝文化價值。本文基於中西文化首次大規模“融合與碰撞”的歷史階段，微觀考察寺廟、教堂的雕刻工藝風格流變與美學精神，探討雕刻工藝作為澳門人的一種經濟生活方式和文化現象的產生、發展和演變的動力和機制，進而挖掘其背後文化的深義。
