The Effect of Graphic Character Recognition Instruction On Young Children

• Main Authors: Chu,Ying-Chen, 朱盈臻
• Other Authors: 陳修元
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gs2ubn

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 幼兒教育學系 === 106 === When it comes to the young children education, literacy shall be one of the most significant foundation stones.Unfortunately,in light of the children who prefer to as well as are suitable for learning through games, the existing literacy classes seem to be too dull to enhance the children’s interest and motivation in learning.Aimed at the aforementioned problem,a more interesting teaching method may be a solution to improve the effectiveness of children’s learning while they are first exposed to the literacy instruction. Therefore,this study, by developing the Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method, which combines images with characters meeting the child’s life experience, is tested on 60 middle-school children aged 4 years old who have never been to any literacy classes, as the experimental group,with 30 different graphics characters. By contrast, a control group of children is taught under the ordinary Non-Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method without any image-linked text. In accordance with the comparison of the effectiveness between the experimental group and the control group taking both simple word recognition exam and the 4-blanked word-selecting exam, the results of this study were as follows: 1.Even though the test scores have improved since the children took either the Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method or the Non-Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method, after excluding the covariates, the performance of the experimental group is obviously better than the control group. 2.Apparently, the Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method is more effective than the Non-Graphic Word Recognition Teaching Method while comparing the target word learning ability of 4-year old children who have not been exposed to literacy classes. 3.The combination of the word character, the image and the real photo of such item enables children to link the target words in the process of literacy and helps children recognize the words more efficiently. Based on the conclusion of this study, the researcher proposes some suggestions for reference within the scope of the literacy education of the young children in the near future.