An Action Research Study on Applying Reciprocal Teaching Method to Enhance Junior High School Student’s Reading Comprehension

• Main Authors: Ming-Chien Chiang, 江明倩
• Other Authors: Chia-Cheng Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75606582192155295492

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 課程與教學研究所碩士在職專班 === 104 === The purpose of the study is to discuss students’ application of four reading strategies: predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarizing, and their learning attitude while reciprocal teaching was infused into reading teaching. Then, further discussion was conducting toward the effectiveness of applying reciprocal teaching to enhance junior high school students’ reading comprehension. Action Research was applied as a study method. Participants were 25 junior high school 9th graders from the researcher’s class. The whole teaching session was divided into three parts and lasted for 22 weeks. Data were collected through teaching observation, teacher’s notes, group work sheets, students’ feedback sheets, pre-test and post-test. Based on the data collected, further analysis was made and the results were as following: 1. Friendly “conversation atmosphere” was beneficial to students’ learning. 2. A sound “supporting system” helped students’ learning. 3. Appropriate “teacher’s role changing” was beneficial to get to “learning responsibility transfer”. 4.“Reciprocal Teaching” could enhance junior high school students’ reading comprehension. 5.“Reciprocal Teaching” helped students the most with their ability of “reflection and evaluation”. 6. Different “test types” which could test on different “reading comprehension” should all be emphasized. Following suggestions are provided for future scholars and researchers: 1.The study of infusing “Reciprocal Teaching” into reading shoud start the early the better. 2.Besides the study on Reciprocal Teaching and reading comprehension, future study subject could be more diversified. 3.”Evaluation tools” are waited to be modified for future researchers.