The Effects of English Picture Books of Teaching on Word Recognition and Reading Attitude of Second Graders

• Main Authors: CHIU, MEI-HUA, 邱美華
• Other Authors: LI, SHIN-LIANG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5b9f9y

碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所在職專班 === 106 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of English picture books of teaching on word recognition and reading attitude of second graders. The study was adopted a nonequivalent groups of quasi-experimental design with the pretest and post-test. The participants were 51 students from two classes at an elementary school in Taichung City, including the experimental group of 26 students and the control group of 25 students. The experimental group carried on the experiment of teaching by integrating picture books into English curriculum design for ten weeks, while the control group received general English teaching activities. In order to explore the differences between the two groups, they took the pretest and posttest on English word recognition and reading attitude scale before and after the experiment. The data from the pre-test and post-test was analyzed with Mann-Whitney Test. The research results indicated that English picture books of teaching did not have the overall effect on improving English word recognition and reading attitude of the students. However, it had a significant effect on the word recognition by listening to the sound, and it did not have significant impact on reading attitude of emotion, cognition and attention. Finally, based on the research results, the researcher would provide some suggestions to integrate English picture books into English curriculum design, English teachers, educational administrative institutions, and further researchers.