Can Picture books improve the literacy ?New Taipei City Multicultural Picture Books—The Case Of'Southeast Asia Series'

Autor: CHUAN-WEI HSIEH, 謝權威
Rok vydání: 2014
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 102
Recently, multicultural literacy is getting considerable attentions not only from nations of the world but also from people in general. There is general agreement that global vision may be of crucial importance for developing the core competency, especially in the era of knowledge economy. This study focuses on investigating multicultural literacy of fifth graders in elementary school students. The purpose of this study was to improve the multicultural literacy of fifth graders in elementary school students by using “New Taipei City picture books”. In addition to know the grow of student in the teaching experiment, researcher can find the change of their multicultural literacy by quantitative analysis and propose concrete suggestions from the result.This study employed quaised-experimental method of nonequivalent pretest-posttestcontrol group design. Participants were fifth graders in elementary school. The experimental curriculum had lasted for fourteen classes within seven weeks. The experimental tools were“multicultura picture books” and “the multicultural literacy scale”. One-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)was used to analyze the difference score in multicultural literacy scale and researchers can analyzed the result of the teaching deeply by reading reward form.The results of this study were as follows: 1. The multicultural literacy of the students of experimental group was significantly outperformed than the control group. 2. Students in the experimental group responded positively and affirmatively to the experimental curriculum. Based on the conclusion, this study propose concrete suggestions to teacherrs and future researches as a reference for implementing or research the “Multicultural Education”with character in the future.
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