Teaching English E-books to A Third Grade Elementary School Class: A Case Study

碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to investigate whether teaching English by using e-book would influence students’ learning motivation and learning attitudes, and students’ react to the e-book instruction. The participants were 26 third-grade elementary school stud...

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Main Authors: Yu-ching Lee, 李昱慶
Other Authors: Tsu-fu Wang
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73919445031164473616
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Summary:碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to investigate whether teaching English by using e-book would influence students’ learning motivation and learning attitudes, and students’ react to the e-book instruction. The participants were 26 third-grade elementary school students in Yunln County. This study used case study as the method, collecting 25 participants’ data through questionnaires, 6 interview data, and some teacher’s logs. The questions addressed by this study are: (1) Do third-grade elementary school students have a high degree of motivation on e-book teaching? (2)How does third-grade elementary school students’ learning attitudes on e-book instruction? (3)How do the students react to the e-book instruction? The findings of this study are summed up as follows. First, students have positive learning motivation via English e-book teaching. Second, students are generally inclined to the teaching of English e-books. Third, English teaching e-book is applicable. Finally, according to the result, there are some suggestions for educators and future researchers: First, English teachers should establish multiple e-teaching environments. Second, English teachers should design games suitable to the course conducted by the class. Third, English teachers should be familiar with educational software of e-books. Fourth, English teachers should give advice to e-books developers and publishers. Fifth, the future researcher should use different methods, tools, hardware, materials, and curriculum design for future study.