科技大學學生閱讀指定課外讀本的困難及其對閱讀能力的影響

Technological University Students' Obstacles to Reading a Graded Reader and the Impact of Reading a Graded Reader on Technological University Students' Reading Ability

本研究旨在研究科技大學學生閱讀指定課外讀本的困難及對閱讀能力的影響。本研究藉由問卷及學生的作業，收集質性及量性的資料。研究的結果發現，字彙量的不足、只能理解最常用的字義、及文法知識的不足是學生閱讀指定讀本的三大障礙。形容詞子句、過去分詞、名詞子句是三大影響學生閱讀理解的文法概念。學生較能理解句中含有主詞引導出的形容詞子句的句子，較難理解句中含有受詞引導出的形容詞子句的句子。不能辨識出第一個被挑選出來過去分詞的型態及功能，及第二個被挑選出來過去分詞的型態，似乎與學生理解含有此二過去分詞的句子無密切之關聯，然而，仍有32%的學生無法理解含有此二過去分詞的句子。44%的學生，因無法辨識出被挑選出來以疑問詞'what'為首的名詞子句的型態，而錯誤理解含有此二名詞子句的句子，然而，無法理解第一個名詞子句中的'with'與'it'及第二個名詞子句中的'lookup'與'from'才是44%的學生錯誤理解含有此二名詞子句的句子的主要原因。閱讀指定的課外讀本提昇了學生的字彙的廣度及深度，學生的閱讀能力亦因而有所提昇。

This study aimed at investigating technological university students' obstacles to reading a graded reader and the impact of reading a graded reader on their reading ability. All the data were collected through qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire and the qualitative data were collected through the subjects' assignments. The findings of this study indicated that insufficient vocabulary size, being only able to understand the most common meaning of a word, and insufficient grammatical knowledge were the subjects' three major obstacles to reading. Adjective clauses, past participles, and noun clauses were the top 3 grammatical concepts most affecting the subjects' reading comprehension. The selected sentences containing a relative clause that has an object pronoun were more difficult to understand than those containing a relative clause that has a subject pronoun. Though, being unable to identify either the form or the function of the first selected past participle and unable to identify the function of the second selected past participle were not closely related to the subjects' comprehension of the two selected sentences that contain a past participle, on average, 32% of the subjects still had difficulty understanding the two selected sentences that contain a past participle. Forty-four percent of the subjects who were unable to identify the forms of the two selected noun clauses beginning with "what" were unable to understand each sentence containing one of the two selected noun clauses. However, being unable to understand "with" and "it" in the first noun clause and "look up" and "from" in the second noun clause should be the main reason why 44% of the subjects misinterpreted the sentence containing the first noun clause and the sentence containing the second noun clause. After reading the selected graded reader, the subjects increased their depth of vocabulary knowledge and breadth of vocabulary knowledge and they improved their reading ability.