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The study of Integrating Creative thinking into Fourth Graders' Integrated Reading and Composition Program

The aim of this study is to develop the ¡§integration of creative thinking into the proposal of teaching reading and composition for grade 4 students¡¨ and discuss the impact of this teaching proposal on students¡¦ creative thinking skill, tendency and writing capability. Through case study, a grade-4 dance class from an elementary school in Tainan City was taken as research sample. Among the target students, 20 of them are female. After conducting the teaching proposal for 17 weeks, the teaching strategy was adjusted according to the program implementation, teacher¡¦s introspection and students¡¦ performance in class. In addition, both quantitative and qualitative analyses were used to analyze the program teaching effect. The pre-test and post-test scores of the ¡§creative thinking activity test¡¨, ¡§creative thinking tendency scale¡¨ and ¡§creative writing evaluation scale¡¨ were taken as the standard for evaluation. Besides, the qualitative data were used to analyze the students¡¦ learning results of creative thinking, students¡¦ written works, learning survey-questionnaires and the overall reaction of teachers¡¦ observation and introspection. The result and discussion of research are as following: (1) The integration of creative thinking into the proposal of teaching composition and reading for grade 4 students can improve the elementary students¡¦ creative thinking skill and writing capability. (2) The integration of creative thinking into the proposal of teaching composition and reading for grade 4 students can improve the elementary students¡¦ creative thinking tendency. (3) The design of the integrative teaching composition and writing can improve the elementary students¡¦ expression and the learning quality of creative thinking. (4) The appropriate team work can improve the elementary students¡¦ learning effect. In conclusion, this study proposed the proposal and implementation for future integration of creative thinking into teaching composition and reading and research direction based on the research results.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1023111-215217
Date23 October 2011
CreatorsLiu, Ting-yu
ContributorsSuh-Siang Zhong, Ming-Charng Jeng, Shu-Ching Yang, Pei-I Chou
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1023111-215217
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