A Study of the Impact of Summarization Strategy Instruction on the Reading Comprehension and Problem-Solving Ability of the Fifth-grade Students

• Main Authors: Jun-Xian Lin, 林俊賢
• Other Authors: Tung-Chung Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10871002075116414607

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 教育學系教育研究所 === 102 === Summarization is an important reading comprehension strategy frequently used by good readers. Summarization is the key ability to comprehension and memorization of texts, which helps readers grasp the summary of the text before infer learning and then the theme, based on the content. The inference of the theme is the key to building core and successful reading comprehension. Nonetheless, the comparison of two reading assessments (PISA, PIRLS) shows that our junior high school students have demonstrated relatively lower ability in reading comprehension and that there is still a great room for improvement. This is a result of our literary education which emphasizes more on the basic levels such as words, phrases and sentence for language teaching, while the teachers rarely instruct students with higher-level reading strategies. Moreover, reading is one problem-solving process while narrative style is a type of