英文摘要 |
This study attempted to identify the problems encountered by teachers when they integrated reciprocal teaching into the design of instruction on juvenile fictions and when they taught reading instruction, as well as teachers' countermeasures for the problems, students' academic performance and reactions. Using action research method, this study observed an elementary school's fifth graders taught by the researcher with emphasis on juvenile fictions. Moreover, this study integrated the reading strategies required by reciprocal teaching, namely, prediction, clarification, question, and summary, into an 18-hour readinginstruction class. During the action research process, teachers' observations and reflection journals, students' interviews and their work sheets were gathered for review, analysis, and summarization. Conclusions were made accordingly. Findings are summarized as follows: 1. When the reading strategies required by reciprocal teaching are integrated into the reading instruction on juvenile fictions, the design of instruction is feasible. 2. Teachers may adopt model teaching method as well as thinking aloud method, thus encouraging students to make use of context comparison. By doing so, teachers can guide students to raise questions using 6W, identify the important concepts of the stories, analyze the ingredients of juvenile fictions, and overcome the problems encountered by the teachers when they use reciprocal teaching. 3. To facilitate the dialogues and discussions required by reciprocal teaching, teachers may initiate incentives and resort to the peers' efforts, motivating students to read the book until the last page with patience. 4. 76% of students were able to predict meaningfully based on the titles and pictures of articles; 82% of students were able to solve their questions using various methods when they were reading juvenile fictions; 72% of students knew how to identify the key points of articles using 6W; and 47% of students were able to analyze the ingredients of juvenile fictions and thereby comprehended the full text. 5. Students felt that prediction was the easiest strategy and summary was the hardest strategy. Students used question strategy the most, and found that summary strategy was the best tool to help them comprehend the full context. 6. In general, students believed that they had improved their reading comprehension after they read juvenile fictions. Last but not least, recommendations are presented based on the findings stated above for future researchers. |