Summary: | 碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 資訊工程學系碩士在職專班 === 103 === The aim of this study is to find out the reading problems of under-achieving students and the ways to improve their reading skills. Besides, it also aims to find out how would book reading and e-book reading fit to low grade students.
To achieve the goal, this study will also combine the online testing system on “Changhua County Reading Web” with iBooks Author reading test from the Apple Company to establish the E-book and electronic reading tests. And also we try to find out the students’ reading problems through the interviews.
With the findings, analysis, and discussion of this study, we summarize the following conclusions:
I. To present the result difference between traditional book reading teaching and e-book reading teaching
i. E-book reading teaching is more effective than the traditional reading teaching.
ii. Not all of the students like the outstanding light and sound effect from E-books.
II. The reading problems from under-achievement students
i. Frequent problems: skipping words, skipping lines, unable to read a complete sentence.
ii. Low literacy rate in general, hence the students can only read simpler words or sentences
iii. Students show low ability in Reading Comprehension, they are only able to answer right about the questions which are focus on and retrieve explicitly stated information and the questions which are made straightforward inferences.
III. The strategy of reading remedial teaching
i. Attract students’ attention by using e books, electronic or on line reading tests to proceed reading teaching. Furthermore, give the students the opportunity to think over and over again.
ii. 2. To help students find out the meaning in the contents by using the questioning method.
IV. The points of design the reading test for low-grade students
i. The reading test should be implemented in the pre-test, the formal test should be tested after the inappropriate questions are corrected.
ii. The length of questions and answers should not be too long.
iii. Multiple choice questions are the most appropriate.
iv. The written tests are based on the low levels questions; the oral tests are based on the high levels questions.
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