The Effect of Differentiated Instruction of Sixth Grade Students' English Reading Achievement and Learning Interest
| Autor: | LO, CHIEH-FANG, 羅捷方 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 This research aims to investigate whether differentiated instruction is helpful for 6th grade English as a foreign language learners to improve their English reading achievement and learning interest. Two 6th grade classes, 25 students each, from Taoyuan City took part in this quasi-experimental study. One class, served as the experimental group, was taught with differentiated instruction, and the other, the control group, was taught with conventional teaching method. The experimental instruction lasted for eight weeks, two times a week. An “English Reading Comprehension Test” was administered before and after the intervention. Both groups of students also filled out an “English Learning Interest Questionnaire” before and after the instruction, while the experimental group filled out an “English Differentiated Instruction Learning Interest Questionnaire” after the intervention. The data was then analyzed with independent-samples t test, paired-sample t test, descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis. The result shows that although the control group had a higher score than the experimental group, there were no significant difference of English reading comprehension in the posttest between the two groups. However, students from the DI group had a significant enhancement in their learning interest than that of the control group. Students gave positive feedback for the differentiated instruction. The major findings of this study state that the grouping should be considered in various dimension in differentiated instruction and the choice of the storybook should be balanced with both students’ mental age and English ability. Using different storybooks for different students is suggested. Adopting QARs in differentiated instruction should take learners’ readiness for such questions into consideration. |
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