A Pre-service Teacher’s Journey on Orchid Island: Integrating Tourism into English Teaching to Yami Children

• Main Authors: SHIH, TING-YU, 施亭伃
• Other Authors: RAU, DER-HWA VICTORIA
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/322xjy

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 語言學研究所 === 105 === This research is a qualitative research study, documenting the learning process and feedback of a Tourism English course on Orchid Island I taught as a pre-service teacher. There were three stages of this research: “pre-stage”, “middle-stage” and “late-stage”, based on a framework of action research (Tsai, 2000). At the beginning, I discovered that there was a problem in English class on Orchid Island: how to provide an English course which students would be interested in and also would meet the Curriculum Guidelines. In order to resolve this problem, I designed a tourism English course for the Yami (Tao) students based on the students’ outgoing, creative, and music-oriented characteristics observed in their English classes. Secondly, the tourism-and-music-oriented course was designed and taughtin the middle stage. At last, the feedback from both the local English teacher and the students of this course were discussed. Overall, the action research was both empowering to the students and self-empowered to the researcher but how to put the tourism-and-music-oriented course design into the regular curriculum would be another challenge.