The action research of teaching English remedial second graders by using nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement

• Main Authors: Lan Cheng Fa, 藍正發
• Other Authors: 張湘君
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58547912158145668622

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 兒童英語教育學系碩士班 === 95 === The purpose of this study was to explore the effects on remedial students’ attitude toward learning English and the learning efficiency by using English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement. This research was a qualitative one, which adopted Doctor Chang’s students’ attitude Theory and Miss Lee’s primary school Attitude Scale. This attitude scale was called primary school attitude scale. Before English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement teaching, remedial students took the attitude and English proficiency test. After English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement teaching, remedial students took the attitude test, then took English teacher-made test too. The result of this study was that after English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement teaching the remedial students’ attitude positive improved significantly and the remedial students’ English learning efficiency improved too. The researcher suggest that English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement teaching should be take as a must in primary school and English teachers should take the training. Schools’ leaders should support English teachers to use English nursery rhymes with rhythmic movement teaching in order to help the remedial students.