Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 97 === The purpose of this research was to explore the effects of ten-minutes reading in the morning on elementary school students’ reading motivation and reading behavior. The subjects were fifty-four second grade students from two classes in Taichung County . In the experimental group (composed of twenty-eight students), the students participated ten-minutes reading in the morning at 7:30~7:40 A.M.. In the control group (composed of twenty-six students), the students participated a Tutor Time with non-reading activities. Both of the programs were practiced 10 minutes every morning, five days a week, for consecutive fifteen weeks.
In order to realize the changes of students’ reading motivation and reading behavior , the “Reading Motivation Questionnaire” and ”Reading Behavior Questionnaire” were conducted by the experimental and control groups before and after instruction. One-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the data, with the pre-test used as a covariate to test the hypotheses. “Books Borrowing Record List” was designed to describe the students’ reading behavior. “Family Background Questionnaire” was designed to probe the affections of background to reading motivation and reading behavior. “Reading Feedback Sheet” was used to understand the views of the experimental group students about ten-minutes reading in the morning. The results indicated as follows:
1.Ten-minutes reading in the morning can enhance the second graders’ reading motivation.
2.Ten-minutes reading in the morning positively affects the second graders’ reading behavior.
3.Ten-minutes reading in the morning helps the more reading motivation and behavior of boys than girls.
4.The effect on the different family background, the students’ reading motivation and behavior didn’t have obvious difference.
5.The students’ reading at home didn’t change through the parents’ observation.
6.Ten-minutes reading in the morning increases students’ positively views of reading.
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