| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 兒童英語教育學系碩士班 === 99 === Abstract
This 14-week experimental study aimed to investigate the effects of small-group shared reading on Taiwanese fifth graders’ English reading ability and English learning attitude. Two groups consisting of 64 fifth graders in Taipei County participated in this study and randomly assigned as the control group and the experimental group respectively. The former received whole-class reading instruction and the latter received small-group shared reading instruction during the last 20 minutes in each class. Research data were collected through diverse instruments, such as English reading ability pre-/posttests, English learning attitude scale and interview and then calculated and analyzed with descriptive statistics, independent-samples t test and paired-samples t test.
The results of this study indicated that the experimental group improved significantly after the experimental study and performed much significant better than the control group in their vocabulary ability and sentence comprehension ability. However, there was no significant difference in the reading comprehension of short articles. In addition, experimental group improved their learning attitude significantly, especially in the aspects of cognitive, behavioral and affective components. Furthermore, the experimental group gained significant higher scores in the English learning attitude posttest than the control group, which was fully supported with the data collected via interviews.
The results further suggested that small-group shared reading method was more effective teaching strategy than the whole-class reading in improving fifth graders’ vocabulary ability and their sentence comprehension ability as well as their English learning attitude.
Finally, based upon the research results, some suggestions were offered for teachers who are interested in implementing small-group shared reading instruction in their classroom teaching and for educators who might conduct advanced studies related to small-group shared reading instruction.
Key words: small-group shared reading, graded readers,
English reading ability, English reading attitude
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