The Study of Nursery Rhyme Teaching to Develop Children’s Rhyme The The Study of Nursery Rhyme Teaching to Develop Children’s Rhyme Awareness

• Main Authors: Liu Shu-chen, 劉淑甄
• Other Authors: Sharon Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83503308706585096633

碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 兒童英語教育研究所 === 94 === ABSTRACT Nursery rhymes bring out the multi-value instruction and effective learning. The present study aims to use nursery rhymes- the meaningful and interesting teaching material- to improve children’s rhyme awareness and make English learning more effective. It was designed to examine the effects of nursery rhymes instruction. The participants who were selected in this study were sixty-seven EFL third-graders from two different classes at Hu-dong Elementary School in Changhua County, Taiwan. They were divided into two groups within their own classes, one was for nursery rhymes instruction, and the other one was for story-telling instruction. There were twenty-minute lessons for each group every week, and the experiment periods lasted for twelve weeks. The results are as follows: 1. Nursery rhymes instruction improves children’s rhyme awareness significantly. 2. Sufficient teaching is an import factor to make nursery rhymes instruction to have the impact. 3. The effects of rhyme awareness improving generalizes to non-teaching target rhymes. Based on the results, the study made some suggestions to publishers, English teachers, and further researches. Keywords: Nursery Rhymes, Rhyme Awareness