| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 工業管理學系 === 105 === With the advent of globalization, English communication skills have become more and more significant. The overall proficiency of English in a country determines its competitiveness and visibility around the world. Therefore, English education is surely a key point in our compulsory education. After the implementation of 12-year compulsory education, the Ministry of Education keeps emphasizing the slogan - “No child left behind”; however, the bimodal distribution is still present in every classroom. In terms of this issue, an effective method of identifying low achievers in advance is necessary in order to reduce the Enlgish learning gap by remedial teaching.
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors which affect junior high school students’ English achievements, and to build a predictive improving model by discriminant analysis. This study is based on a group of grade nine junior high school students. According to domestic and foreign literature reviews, we sort out nine variables which afftect students' English learning achievements. They are students’ English learning periods after school, weekly reading time, parental education, parenting methods, genders, the frequency of cellphone use, the strategy of vocabulary learning, immigrant students and interactions with teachers. After analyzing the nine factors, this study uses the result to develop a scale to be the standard of predicting students’ English academic achievement. The finding of this study shows that both weekly reading time and the strategy of vocabulary learning are the highest predictive variables. After verification, the results of discriminant analysis reaches the reliability and accuracy of one hundred percent.
With one establishment of an early-warning model, we expect it to help teachers predict potential low achievers and provide them with remedial teaching in advance. According to the results, this study provides suggestions not only to the educational administration, educators and parents, but also the follow-up studies.
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