| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 兒童英語教育學系碩士班 === 106 === The study aimed to investigate the impacts of the International Book Club project (IBCP) in iEARN on Taiwanese EFL 5th graders’ English reading comprehension and writing skills. Nineteen 5thgraders at a public school in Taipei City participated in the study for 10 weeks. Data were collected through the pre- and posttests of reading comprehension and writing skills and a feedback questionnaire, which were analyzed by paired-sample t-test and descriptive statistical analysis.
The major findings indicate, firstly, the IBCP in iEARN enhances EFL graders’ reading comprehension significantly and mostly beneficial for the MEP students in understanding vocabulary, sentence patterns, and the content of the story book assigned. Although the HEP and LEP students made progress, their progress did not reach significance difference. As for the overall students’ writing skills, only the aspect of punctuation errors is significantly reduced. The HEP students made significant progress in reducing spelling errors and the MEP students made significant progress in two aspects of reducing punctuation errors and increasing accuracy rate. However, the LEP students did not make significant progress in all aspects of basic English writing skills. Furthermore, the students have expressed very positive attitude toward learning English via IBCP in iEARN, especially to read posts written by their international reading partners as well as to share their writing with their reading partners. Finally, based upon the findings of the study, some suggestions for pedagogical applications and future studies are offered.
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