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• Main Authors: Li-Ju Chen, 陳麗如
• Other Authors: Jiin-Dar Tseng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70790638740011440180

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 98 === The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of multisensory instruction on writing for second grade elementary school students. This study used the pre-post test nonequivalent quasi-experimental design. In this research, multisensory instruction was set as the independent variable and students’ writing ability and writing attitude were set as the dependent variable. The “Multisensory writing score chart” and “Writing attitude questionnaire” and qualitative data were adopted as an instrument of analysis. Teaching introspections, Multisensory writing worksheet and interviews were integrated to provide evidence for research results. Fifty-six elementary school students from a public school in Taipei County were chosen to be the participants for this research. The participants were divided into two groups, experimental group and control group. The experimental group were administered a method of multisensory instruction, and the control group were administered traditional composition instruction. The whole instruction curriculum lasted for eight weeks, including eighty minutes per week of teaching activities which was six hundred and forty minutes in total. Both groups of participants were tested upon their writing ability and writing attitude before implementing any methods. During the instruction experiment, all instruction activities were made to video recordings, observation records, teaching introspections, and both groups were interviewed separately. Both groups of participants took tests on the first week and the third week after instruction experiment to measure immediate effects of this research. Conclusions of this study were listed as follows: 1. The students who underwent multisensory instructions turned out to be observant and creative in terms of writing. 2. The students who underwent multisensory instructions participated in a number of practices that required many sense organs working together. These students turned out to be more precise and organized in terms of writing. 3. The students who underwent multisensory instruction are able to make sense of things in various ways through different sense organs. The range of vocabularies used by these students turned out to be above average. 4. The amount of sentences and words written by these students has increased significantly as well. 5. In the field of multisensory instruction, methods that emphasize expressing sentiments through writing are more effective for the students of the 2nd grade.