A Study of Children’s Summarization Process

• Main Authors: Hung-Hui Chen, 陳弘輝
• Other Authors: Yuhtsuen Tzeng，Chi-Shun Lien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65511358503053795109

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 課程研究所 === 101 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the summarization process of elementary school students with different reading comprehension ability across different grade levels. Subjects were recruited 34 sixth graders and 34 third graders from an elementary school in Chia-Yi. Three-way mixed design ANOVA was used to analyse the data. The findings were as follows: 1. Summarization performance, there was no interaction among ages, reading, and abilities. However there were significant main effects of ages, reading abilities, and sub summarize processing. 2. In term of grade level, sixth graders performed better than third graders on the summarization measure. 3. High-ability students outperformed less-ability students on the summarization measure. 4. For the process of summarization, there were different patterns on summarization performance when children read different versions of texts. That is, children constructed better summary when they read “deletion” version of text than “generalization” version and “construction” version of text. The findings were discussed and some implications were made for further education.