| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 英語教育研究所 === 86 === From teaching experiences, we find that English is actually a
nightmare to some junior high school students.English teaching
in Taiwan puts much emphasis on the accademic achievements of
all of the students. The current English tea-chings implemented
under the same teaching schedule, the same teaching materi-als
and the same evaluation. As a result, some students become the
victims under this teaching system because of the
differences of aptitudes, potentia-lities, interests, and
learning ways. A great number of students whose intelligence
are above average and whose academic performances in Chinese and
math are great fail to pass English examination. Gradually those
students lose confidence in learning English and the studying
careers in other subjects are also seriously jeopardized. This
study is about an English IEP as a remedial teaching method for
18 English underacievers in English resource room of
PeitouJunior High School. The experiment of our English IEP as
a remedial teaching method for one semester,including the re-
editing teaching materials of English Text Book I and CTS
forstudents'' self-evaluation, was carried out according to every
student''s starting behavior under six teaching steps--diagnosis,
planningof immidiate instructional progress, group teaching,
evaluation, going back to the mainstream and following-up.We
found that 78% of the students were allowed to go back to the
mainstream(the regular class).In other words,they eventually
overcame the learning difficulties. From the investigation and
interview,theyhade confidence in learning English again and they
could develop correct and positive attitude in learning
English. This study is contributive in EFL teaching and in
IEP.In terms of contributions in EFL teaching:(1)The knowledge
of spelling is heavily tied with the learning process of
vocabulary. Most of remedial teaching starts from the
beginning of the recognition of phonetic symbols.(2) The
potentiality of English underachievers can be highly motivatedif
proper teaching methodology is adopted. (3) Computer might play
a crucialrole in English teaching if it is well-designed. In
terms of the contrubutionsin the applocation of IEP:(1) IEP as a
remedial teaching method is a humanisticstyle of teaching a
foreign language.(2) Functions of IEP can be asserted
intopractical teaching for normal students, not just for the
students in specialeducation. (3) IEP can be applied to EFL
teaching, just like other fields of special education.
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