Enhancing English Oral Proficiency of Remedial Elementary School Students through Jazz Chants

• Main Authors: Yang, Chin-Chin, 楊錦勤
• Other Authors: 吳舜文
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18169429275551155434

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 創造力發展碩士在職專班 === 104 === Abstract The case study aimed to investigate the influence of Jazz Chants instruction on the 6th grade underachievers’ English oral speaking performance and their learning attitude. The seven subjects from an elementary school in Taipei were applying for the remedial program with 20 sessions in five days during the winter break, plus 6 reviewing sessions three weeks later. The subjects were underachievers in the bracket of late 25% of the whole grade. Some are even from the vulnerable households fitting the remedial program of Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in this study. The quantified instruments included the pretest, the post-test of both English oral speaking and learning attitude questionnaire. A delay test for English oral speaking was followed three weeks later. All data were collected from the tests and questionnaires to analyze quantitatively through descriptive statistics. The qualitative instruments including teaching reflection and classroom observation through videotaping, worksheets and interviews were conducted to examine the subjects’ experience and improvement of oral speaking and learning attitude to English learning in the Jazz Chants instruction. The results showed that the seven subjects progressed 36% averagely in the correctness percentage of words in oral speaking test ； 20% in the correctness percentage of sentences. The questionnaires of English learning attitude also showed the seven subjects improved averagely in every dimension to Engllish learning: 10% in learning confidence, 19% in learning interest and 8% in learning behavior. The qualitative data indicated that the seven subjects developed a positive attitude to the adoption of Jazz Chants instruction in English remedial lessons. Finally suggestions were offered for future research of applying Jazz Chants instruction in the elementary school students’ remedial programs. Keywords: Jazz Chants, underachiever, English oral proficiency, English learning attitude iv