Research on Integrating Podcast into idiom teaching for 6th graders

• Main Authors: Wen-Shioung Liao, 廖文雄
• Other Authors: Hsin-Yih Shyu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89133129069566447523

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育科技學系碩士在職專班 === 97 === As internet technology marches into the Web2.0 era, new internet technologies have been developed from this framework. Podcast is one of the newest technologies developed from this system. Oversees institutions of higher education took the initiative to incorporate Podcast technologies into their teaching systems, and the advantages of Podcast, as used in teaching, has now grabbed the attention of the domestic education society. However, utilization of such technologies is still limited to institutions of higher education; only in rare occasions is this technology used in elementary school teaching at the current stage. Nonetheless, many studies have proven that Podcast has high advantages in language teaching. Therefore, this study makes an attempt to explore the effect of Podcast teaching for learning of Chinese idioms in elementary schools. This study aimed to compare the effects of traditional idiom teaching and idiom teaching with Podcast, explore the effect of idiom teaching with different modes of Podcast, and investigate the levels of children’s acceptability to Podcast. This study adopted the quasi-experimental method with subjects from the sixth-grade classes of an elementary school in northern Taiwan. A total of 103 students were participated, who were divided into three groups, the Control Group (35 students), the Experiment Group A (35 students), and the Experiment Group B (33 students). The Control Group was implemented with the traditional teaching method, and the Experiment Groups A and B both were implemented with Podcast teaching. Experiment Group A learned the lessons through PCs, and Experiment Group B learned the lessons through a combination of PC+MP4 players. A period of 12 weeks of treatment was implemented. The results were found after the experiments: (1) The children from both experiment groups performed better than the children from the control group; (2) No significant difference was found between the two experiment groups implemented with two different modes of Podcast teaching; (3) 89.77% of the children reflected the high level of acceptability to Podcast teaching for Chinese idioms; (4) The children had positive attitudes towards Podcast teaching. They felt good about Podcast teaching because it is convenient and helpful; it can access videos and let them know more idioms; it improve language ability; it is useful and interesting; it makes deeper impression (easier to remember), and thy can use Podcast to search those they have not learned before; (5) Students liked the way of learning through MP4 players, but they thought MP4 was for music and videos; using it for learning was the last option. This study is significant because it provides guidelines and suggestions to teachers and instructional designers for integrating Podcast into idiom and language teaching.