碩士 / 國立嘉義大學 / 國民教育研究所 / 90 / A study on the multi-media application in English co-operative learning of 5th graders at elementary schools
By Sam Huang
Graduate School of Citizen Education , NCYU
Abstract
This essay is about the application of the multi-media technique on cooperative learning in 5th graders’ English teaching, mainly focused on how students’ listening & speaking comprehension and their attitude could be effected. My approach is based on the so-called “quasi-experimental “ method which has been built upon the empirical evidence and information practical for testing. The other qualitative documents are “Classroom Diary”, “Investigative Interviews”, “Observative Records” which are applied for assistative and further exploration. Then it comes to my findings and some proposals aimed to improve English teaching at elementary levels. My targets are those 5th grade students at two elementary schools at Yun-Lin County. These students are divided and branded into two groups: One is the Experimental Group and the other is the Controlled Group. Members in the Controlled Group learn English with the help of multi-media equipment and in cooperative pattern. Others learn English in the older, traditional way. The teaching material used in 5th grade English classroom was developed by the School of Educational Technology of NCYU. Here are some conclusions that I have reached in my research:
1. Achievement in communicative comprehension of listening and speaking competence: the outcome of my experiment comes as this: Students in the Experimental Group performed better than those in the Controlled Group.
2. Manners and Consequence of Acquisition: Based on questionnaires issued to the participants: It seems that
(1) About the “interests” and/or “motives” towards English learning: There’s no significant variance ( gap, difference) between these two groups.
(2) In the way of “Confidence”, students in the Experimental Group got higher scores than those of the Controlled Group did.
A study largely applied with the multi-media technique in English teaching at elementary school shows the result that there existed no significance of differention between these two groups in the field of “ the experiencing conceptuation of learning English.”
3. The level of acceptance by both the instructors and the students towards the application of multi-media cooperative learning is, positive.
4. The researcher analyzed, combined all the essential information available and got convinced that the so-called “ A Multi-media Co-operative Instruction” method worked effectively in both curricula design and teaching implementation at elementary schools. However, it takes both sufficient/adequate skills and elaborately set-up environment to undergo the effective English teaching in elementary schools under the contemporary circumstance. Teachers have to possess more competent qualification in order to meet multi-dimensional challenge.
At last, according to my research outcome, here are some proposals for the design of teaching material, methodologies and further study in the field of applied educational technology in teaching/learning a foreign language.
Key words:
Remote elementary school
Multi-media application in English teaching
Cooperative learning
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/090NCYU1576029 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Sam Huang, 黃世烟 |
| Contributors | 鐘樹椽 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 132 |
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