| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系課程與教學碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this research was to explore the effects of reading discussion method on fourth grade students’ reading comprehension and reading attitude. Sixty fourth grade students from two classes of a public school were used as samples. One class was the experimental group, thirty students participated in reading discussion method. The other class was the control group, thirty students participated a free reading program.
Both of the programs were conducted by the researcher 120 minutes a week, for consecutive eight weeks. Before this study, the two groups of examinees were evaluated with “Mandarin academic achievement” to examine their initial ability. “Reading Comprehension” and “Evaluation Table of Children’s Reading Attitude” were used as instruments to collect data. ANCOVA and t-test were used to analyze the data. In addition, “Observation Data Sheet”, “Reading Sheet” and “the feedback questionnaire toward the reading discussion method”, the qualitative analysis way was also used in this study.
The results indicated as follows:
1.The reading discussion method significantly improved the fourth grade students’ reading comprehension ability.
2.The reading discussion method was not significantly improved the fourth grade students’ reading attitude.
3.The experimental group students had a positive attitude toward the reading discussion method.
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