這項研究的目的是探討作者質疑法（QTA）對台灣國中學生在閱讀動機和閱讀理解方面的影響。作者質疑法是一種教學方式，它邀請讀者與文本對話，自己建立文本涵義，並挑戰作者。該方法是基於作者並非不會犯錯的假設，並使用詢問及閱讀中的討論，以促進文本的涵義建構。
在台灣中部的一所國中裡，兩班共61位八年級學生參加了這項持續七週的研究。其中一個由29位學生組成的班級為實驗組，接受QTA方法學習閱讀五個故事，而其他32位學生為對照組，則接受傳統方法學習相同的五個故事。在教學活動的前一週和後一週，兩組學生皆填寫閱讀動機問卷（MRQ），閱讀一個故事，並進行回想和回應寫作。此外，QTA組另於後測後填寫感知問卷。
量化之測量工具反映出QTA不同的效果。首先在閱讀動機方面，利用前測作為共變量和組別作為獨立變量的ANCOVA分析，在MRQ問卷中所有項目作為一個整體的結果顯示QTA對於閱讀動機並無顯著影響。其次，在回想寫作中，學生的寫作內容被歸類為文本直接回想的單位以及推理位，而在前者部分， QTA並未顯示出其對於學生記憶文本內容的效果。然而，我們間接發現QtA正面作用在學生對於文本的推理上；對照組在前測中表現較實驗組為突出，然而在後測時反而未能有好表現。第三，在回應寫作方面，我們從開放式編碼中發現四種類型的回應：語言上的評論，內容上的評論，基於文本的回應和以讀者為基礎的回應。將每種類型在前後測中所佔的比例予以計算之，結果發現，相較於前測，在後測時，QTA組在以讀者為基礎的回應之比例上有顯著的增加，且在語言上的評論比例則急遽下降，而控制組則未顯示出這些現象。而在內容上的評論和基於文本的回應此兩項回應方面，兩組間並無差異。此外，質性的感知問卷分析反映出大致上學生對於此教學法以及教材皆持正面態度。
這項研究的結果顯示出QTA教學法在台灣的國中閱讀教學方面具有可行性，尤其透過其提升學生推理能力及回應的效果，學生於閱讀時的注意力將從語言解碼轉移至文本涵義之建構。

The aim of this study is to probe the effects of Questioning the Author (QtA) on the reading motivation and reading comprehension of junior high school students in Taiwan. Questioning the Author is a teaching approach which invites readers to have conversations with the text, to build up meanings one their own, and to challenge the author. The approach is formulated based on the assumption that the author is not infallible and thus uses queries and during-reading discussions to facilitate meaning construction.
Sixty-one eighth graders in two classes in a junior high school in central Taiwan participated in this study in seven weeks. One class of twenty-nine students formed the experimental group, who were guided through five stories using QtA approach, while the other, of thirty-two students, formed the control group, who were taught the same five stories using traditional approach. In the pretest and posttest weeks, prior to and after the five-week treatment, students in both groups filled out a Motivations for Reading (MRQ) questionnaire, read one story, and performed a recall and response writing for the story. Additionally, the QtA group responded to a perception questionnaire in the posttest.
The quantitative measures reflected disparate QtA effects. First, for reading motivation, ANCOVA analyses, with pretest as a covariate and group as an independent variable, on the MRQ questionnaire items as a whole showed no significant effect of QtA treatment on reading motivation. Secondly, for written recall, which was coded into units of text retention and units of inference, no significant effect was found for QtA approach in text retention. Nevertheless, positive effect, albeit indirect, was found on the inferences generated in recall; the control group significantly outperformed the experimental group in the pretest yet showed no such excel in the posttest. Thirdly, for response writing, four types of response were emerged from open-coding: comment on language, comment on content, text-based response and reader-based response; for each type of response in the pre- and posttests, a proportion was calculated. It was found that in comparison with pretest, at posttest, QtA group has a remarkable increase in the proportion of reader-based response and a drastic drop in comment on language, which were not revealed by the control group. As for comment on content and text-based response, no such gap was found between groups. In addition, qualitative analysis on perception questionnaire reflected that students in general held a positive attitude toward the approach as well as the materials.
The results of this study suggested the feasibility of QtA approach in supporting the reading instruction at junior high schools in Taiwan, especially via its functions of boosting inference making and response generation, and as such, diverting attention from language decoding to meaning construction.

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