| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 英語學系 === 104 === Abstract
This study aims to explore teenagers’ reading reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels
and to apply children’s literature to English teaching for EFL students in a junior high school
classroom setting in central Taiwan.
The study consists of six chapters. Chapter One includes five sections, which are motivation
and background, purpose and significance of the study, major research questions, literature
review, and organization of the study. The literature review section explores the benefits of
children’s literature and the use of it in EFL classroom, and investigates content-based instruction
and its application to language teaching. The three models proposed by Carter and Long (1991) are
also employed in this study. The criteria of choosing appropriate children’s literature and the
suitability of Gulliver's Travels as teaching material is also analyzed.
In Chapter Two, the biography of Jonathan Swift and a brief illustration of Gulliver's Travels
are first presented. In the brief examination of Gulliver's Travels section, the first voyage to Lilliput,
the second voyage to Brobdingnag, the third voyage to Laputa and other Islands, and the fourth
voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms are illustrated. Finally, the last section of this chapter
discusses the elements of satire in Gulliver's Travels.
Chapter Three examines the feature and value of various literary passages and language
elements in Gulliver's Travels. Consideration of their application to teaching is also presented. In
Chapter Four, the details of the main study are presented, including the participants, the instruments,
the data collection procedures, and the teaching procedures.
In Chapter Five, comparative analysis of the responses in students’ pre-instructional and
post-instructional questionnaires is included. Then, the results of the pre-test and the post-test for
the comprehension of the reading texts are also presented.
Finally, Chapter Six concludes the findings of this teaching experiment. In this final section,
major findings of the study, recommendations and pedagogical implications, limitations of the study,
and suggestions for further studies are discussed.
Key words: children's literature, satire, Gulliver's Travels
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