Using Sentence Pattern Combination Game to Improve Sixth Graders’ Ability of English Sentence Structures

• Main Authors: Po-Cheng Hung, 洪柏政
• Other Authors: Chaoli Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85556709665961210508

碩士 === 文藻外語大學 === 外語文教事業發展研究所 === 104 === In order to help the sixth graders understand the basic sentence structures and help students learn sentence structures via a joyful, exciting, and intense teaching game, the researcher designed the Sentence Pattern Combination Game. This game was designed based on five basic sentence patterns. The students learned the sentence structures and knew how to disassemble the basic structures of the sentences through playing the Sentence Pattern Combination Game. The researcher selected one class of 32 6th graders from a public school in northern Taiwan as the participants. The study lasted for four weeks, with 3 forty-minute classes per week. This study was employed a single group research design. Before the program, students were asked to take the pre-test about the structures of the English sentences. During the intervention, students followed the game rules to learn five basic sentence pattern structures. After the program, students were asked take the posttest about the sentence structures of all five basic sentence patterns to make sure the learning outcome. The data collection involved the pretest and posttest of the program. The test contents were about 1) recognizing sentence components and 2) analyzing English sentence structures. After collecting the data, the data were analyzed by a paired sample t-test.