Integrating Picture Books into Geometric Construction Lessons for Eighth Graders with Learning Disabilities: A Case Study

• Main Authors: LIN,JO-HUAN, 林若桓
• Other Authors: TENG,CHIA-EN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r646kg

碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所在職專班 === 106 === The twelve-year curriculum guideline in Taiwan emphasizes the cultivation of core competencies, which should have been carried out in real-life situations. However, the researcher found that most teachers are used to employing highly-structured direct methods in teaching, rather than helping students learn through reflecting on their everyday experiences. Picture books convey stories with clear storylines and pictures, which provide students vivid scenario to learn the main idea without difficulties. The researcher, therefore, attempted to take picture books as a way to help students with learning disabilities learn geometric construction concepts and skills. The purpose of the study was to explore the effects of integrating picture books into geometric construction lessons for eighth graders with learning disabilities. The topics of point, line, angle, perpendicularity, bisection, symmetry, and geometric construction were included. A single-subject research was conducted, and A-B-A withdrawal design was applied. Three eighth graders were involved in the study. The 12-hour experimental lessons went through baseline, intervention, and reversal phases. Visual analysis and c-statistics were used to analyze data. It was found that 1.Integrating picture books into geometric construction lessons brought immediate effect; 2.Integrating picture books into geometric construction lessons brought maintaining effect; 3.Picture books were effective for building up geometric concepts, helpful for transferring the concepts learned in the picture books into geometric lessons, and effective for improving learning motivation and lessening learning anxiety. It was also found that picture books were good for building up knowledge, enhancing learning transfer, and improving students’ learning motivation.