The Research of Combining Science Reading and Newpaper In Education program on the Second Grader’s Reading Motivation

曾炫鈞
國立高雄師範大學工業科技教育研究所研究生

朱耀明
國立高雄師範大學工業科技教育研究所教授

蔡悅宜
嘉義縣民雄鄉福樂國小教師

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to combine Science Reading and Newpaper In Education program on the Second Grader’s Reading Motivation. The subjects were second grades student in chai-yi connty. One class was the experimental group given science Reading with nie program in reading class while the other class was the control group reading by normal science Reading teaching in reading class.
The whole experimental instruction had lasted for twenty classes within ten weeks. ”Reading Motivation Questionnaire” awere used as instrument to collect data. One-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCONA) was used to analyze the difference of score in ”Reading Motivation Questionnaire”.
The results of the study were indicated that:
1.Science Reading into Newspaper In Education program helps to improve the elementary school second grades students reading motivation.
2.Science Reading into Newspaper In Education program helps to improve “ competence and efficacy beliefs” and “ achievement values and goals”, but not on “ social aspects of reading ”.
3.Science Reading into Newspaper In Education program helps to improve “efficacy”,“challenge”,“involvement”,“importance”,but not on “curiosity”, “recognition”, “grades”,“competition”, “social”, “work avoidance”,“compliance”.
4.low-grade is the first stage of national education, students can not to concentrate on learning to read for a long time. Combined through Science Reading into Newspaper In Education program, from interesting newspaper content to guide students through group reading, discussion and peer sharing, driven peer reading, enhance students’ reading motivation; but general science reading more belong to individual students read independently performed individual thinking and learning. Comparison of the two, Science Reading into Newspaper In Education program can be more help to improve the low-grade students’ reading motivation.

Keywords :Science Reading, Newspaper In Education program, Reading Motivation