| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 101 === The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of Oral Reading Instruction on Taiwanese EFL primary school students’ oral reading fluency. The participants of this study were 55 fourth graders of a primary school in two intact classes in Chia-Yi County, Taiwan. Students in one fourth-grade class, were assigned as the experimental group, and received oral reading instruction in English for 16 weeks two classes per week, while those in the other fourth-grade class, the control group, received regular English instruction.
Pretest-posttest of reading rate, reading accuracy and prosody were administered to evaluate participants’ oral reading fluency before and after the study. The T-test and Analysis of Covariance(ANCOVA) were applied to analyze the test of reading rate, reading accuracy and prosody with and without oral reading instruction after 16-week experiment. Survey and interview were conducted to understand participants’ feedback on the implementation of oral reading instruction.
The results indicated that oral reading instruction was generally effective in helping most of the EFL primary school students improve their oral reading fluency in this study. Moreover, most of the participants in the experiment group also showed positive attitude toward the implementation of oral reading instruction which incorporated oral reading into English classes. The researcher also provided some pedagogical implications and suggestions for English teachers or educators in the study for their references.
Keywords: oral reading, oral reading fluency, reading rate, reading accuracy, prosody, grade level
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