An Action Research on Story Follow-up Writing Strategies to Improve Students' Writing Attitude: A Case of Writing Instruction at Grade Eight

• Main Authors: LIN, PEI-YI, 林佩儀
• Other Authors: CHEN, HUI-FEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/726g3f

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育學系教育創新與評鑑碩士班 === 104 === This study aims to explore the design strategies, development processes, possible obstacles and solutions to a story follow-up writing. By understanding the changes of students before and after a story follow-up writing, this study would provide a learning process to researcher. The action research approach was adopted and 28 eight-grade students were participated for this study. The subject was follow-up writing with four units of worksheet. The quantitative data were collected and analyzed through students’ writing attitude scale. Meanwhile, the qualitative data were collected and analyzed through interviews with the participants, interviews with the collaborative researchers, teacher reflection notes and students’ feedbacks. The analyses of these data revealed the results as below: 1. By using kinds of stories would correspondent with students who have each reading hobbies and would improve students’ writing motivation. 2. “Telling stories, follow-up writing and comparing” is a very helpful course that could improve students’ writing attitude. 3. The researcher gained the teaching growth and enhanced the professional capacity from the action research. The researcher makes the following recommendations for teachers based on the findings: 1. Choose a story, which is closed to life. 2. Teacher could tell the story orally, which would make students interested in writing. 3. Increase the class numbers of follow-up writing course. 4. Focus on the skill shift after course. 5. The positive feedback from teacher help students improve the writing attitude 6. Provide students an opportunity to assess their writing to each other. 7. Seek research partners and organize a teaching team to design more perfect course. The suggestions for future researchers are listed as follows: 1. Increase the difficulty level of follow-up writing. 2. Explore the changes of writing skill of students on follow-up writing.