Action Research of the Effectiveness of Integrating Comics into English Reading Instruction

• Main Authors: Yin, Hsuan-Ping, 殷漩玶
• Other Authors: Tsai, Shiao-Feng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92158634628104459096

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 105 === The purpose of the action research was to use comics as teaching materials in English reading instruction and adopt some reading strategies and story grammar to guide the seventh graders in the researcher’s school to read. Then the researcher used the action research to investigate the effectiveness of the students’ reading comprehension ability in English and the change of the reading motivation in English. The researcher collected both qualitative and quantitative information from 26 seventh-grade students in junior high school. The instruction conducted for one month, five sessions per week. The researcher collected qualitative and quantitative data through Motivations for Reading Questionnaire, reading comprehension tests, story map worksheets designed by the researcher, classroom observations, and the researcher’s reflections. The results of this study were summarized as following: 1. Integrating comics into English reading instruction can promote seventh-grade students’ reading motivation in English. 2. Integrating comics into English reading instruction can promote seventh-grade students’ reading comprehension ability in English.