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研究生: 盧筱玲
Hsiao-ling Lu
論文名稱: 故事文法教學對台灣高中生看圖說故事觀感及能力影響之行動研究
An Action Research on the Effects of Story Grammar Instruction on Taiwanese Students’ Perceptions and Ability of Telling Picture-based Stories
指導教授: 常紹如
Chang, Shau-Ju
學位類別: 碩士
Master
系所名稱: 英語學系
Department of English
論文出版年: 2010
畢業學年度: 98
語文別: 英文
論文頁數: 163
中文關鍵詞: 故事文法看圖說故事
英文關鍵詞: story grammar, picture-based storytelling
論文種類: 學術論文
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  • 本行動研究目的在探討故事文法教學對台灣高中生看圖說故事觀感及能力之影響。其重點在探討:(1)故事文法教學是否能增進學生用英文看圖說故事的能力,(2)學生對於故事文法教學的觀感以及教師該如何做才能有效的應用故事文法教學來訓練英語演講比賽的參賽者,及(3)故事文法教學如何影響學生對看圖說故事的態度。共有七位金門高中高一學生參與這項歷時五週的研究。在此過程中,學生們完成前測看圖說故事觀感問卷調查、看圖說故事前測、故事文法教學、看圖說故事後測、後測看圖說故事觀感問卷調查及一對一訪談,並就學生之前後測差異做質和量的分析。本研究主要發現如下:
    (1)故事文法教學能幫助學生說出較長的故事、增加故事要素的質和量、以及增進看圖說故事時的流暢度。
    (2)學生在前後測中所認為看圖說故事最困難的部分改變了。在前測時為內容之擬定,而後測時則為單字不足。
    (3)要幫助學生從看簡單的圖說出一個故事過渡到看複雜的圖說出一個故事,最好的方就是給學生較多的示範。
    (4)故事文法教學除了讓學生相信自我看圖說故事能力有所增進外,並能減低學生看圖說故事時之焦慮,提升其看圖說故事之自信,及增進其參與看圖說故事活動之興趣。

    This action research aims to investigate the effects of the story grammar instruction on Taiwanese students’ perception and ability of telling English picture-based stories. The focus of the study is to examine: (1) How the story grammar instruction functions to improve students’ ability to tell a story based on a picture in English, (2) how students react to the story grammar instruction and what the teacher can do to make it more effective to apply the story grammar instruction to training participants in a speech contest, and (3) how the story grammar instruction affects students’ attitude toward picture-based storytelling. Seven freshmen in National Kinmen Senior High School participated in the study, which lasted for 5 weeks. During the study the participants completed a pre-instruction questionnaire, took a picture-based storytelling pretest, underwent the story grammar instruction, took a picture-based storytelling posttest, responded to the same questionnaire and received an individual interview after completing the instruction. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively, mainly by comparing the participants’ storytelling performance and perceptions before and after the story grammar instruction. Major findings of the study are as follows:
    (1)The explicit story grammar instruction helped students tell longer stories, increase the number and enhance the quality of the story elements, and improve their fluency in the picture-based storytelling performance,
    (2)The most difficult aspect students considered about picture-based storytelling before and after the story grammar instruction changed. Before the instruction, the most difficult aspect was “content,” but after the story grammar instruction it was “vocabulary,”
    (3)To help students transit from finding telling a story from a simple picture to telling a story from a complicated picture, the most effective method was to give students more modeling, and
    (4)The story grammar instruction helped improve students’ self-perceived ability, reduce their apprehension, enhance their confidence and increase their interest in telling a story from a picture.

    CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background and Purpose of the Study 1 1.2 Research Questions 4 1.3 Significance of the Study 6 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Teaching of Storytelling 8 2.1.1 Importance and advantages of learning storytelling 8 2.1.2 Explicit vs. implicit teaching 9 2.2 Story Grammar 10 2.2.1 Definition of story grammar 11 2.2.2 Elements of a story 11 2.2.3 Benefits of learning story grammar 15 2.2.3.1 Reading ability 17 2.2.3.2 Writing ability 20 2.2.4 Teaching of story grammar 24 2.3 Picture Description 25 2.4 Summary 28 CAHPTER THREE: METHDOLOGY 3.1 Participants 30 3.2 Design and Procedure 31 3.2.1 Definition and purpose of action research 31 3.2.2 Process of action research 32 3.2.3 Research design and procedure 34 3.3 Story Grammar Instruction 40 3.3.1 Instructor’s introduction of story grammar 41 3.3.2 Instructor’s modeling story grammar from stories 41 3.3.3 Participants’ story grammar practice from stories 43 3.3.4 Instructor’s modeling storytelling from pictures 44 3.3.5 Participants’ storytelling from pictures 45 3.4 Data Types 47 3.4.1 Picture-based storytelling performance 47 3.4.2 Questionnaire 48 3.4.3 Group feedback 49 3.4.4 Teaching log 50 3.4.5 Individual interviews 50 3.5 Data Analysis 51 3.5.1 Quantitative analysis 52 3.5.2 Qualitatively analysis 55 CAHPTER FOUR: RESEACH PROCESS AND REFLECTIONS 4.1 Story Grammar from Narratives 56 4.1.1 Instructional process- week 1 56 4.1.2 Results of the group interview and my observation-week1 58 4.1.3 Reflections and modification of the practice- week1 58 4.2 Story Grammar from Simple Pictures 59 4.2.1 Instructional process- week 2 59 4.2.2 Results of the group interview and my observation- week 2 60 4.2.3 Reflections and modification of the practice- week 2 63 4.2.4 Instructional process- week 3 65 4.2.5 Results of the group interview and my observation- week 3 67 4.2.6 Reflections and modification of the practice- week 3 70 4.3 Story Grammar from Complicated Pictures 72 4.3.1 Instructional process- week 4 73 4.3.2 Results of the group interview and my observation- week 4 74 4.3.3 Reflections and modification of the practice- week 4 77 4.3.4 Instructional process- week 5 79 4.3.5 Results of the group interview and my observation- week 5 80 4.3.6 Reflections of the practice- week 5 84 4.4 Summary 86 CAHPTER FIVE: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 5.1 Effects of Story Grammar Instruction on Students’ Picture-based Storytelling Performance 94 5.1.1 Story grammar instruction and story length 95 5.1.2 Story grammar instruction and content of story elements 96 5.1.3 Story grammar instruction and speech fluency 99 5.2 Students’ Perceptions of Picture-based Storytelling 103 5.2.1 Most difficult aspect and story elements in telling a picture-based story 104 5.2.2 Self-perceived ability in picture-based storytelling 107 5.2.3 Apprehension in picture-based storytelling 109 5.2.4 Confidence in picture-based storytelling 110 5.2.5 Interest in picture-based storytelling 112 CAHPTER SIX: CONCLUSION 6.1 Summary of the Study 114 6.2 Suggestions for Future Studies 117 REFERENCES 121 APPENDIX Appendix A1: Pictures for Pretest Picture-based Storytelling 128 Appendix A2: Pictures for Modeling and Practicing Picture-based Storytelling 129 Appendix A3: Pictures for Posttest Picture-based Storytelling 133 Appendix B: 英語故事文法教學問卷調查表 134 Appendix C: Questions for Individual Interview 136 Appendix D: Stories for Modeling Story Grammar 137 Appendix E: Instructor’s Modeling Story Grammar from Stories 143 Appendix F: A Scale for Scoring the Inclusion and Quality of the Parts of a Story 146 Appendix G: The Blank Format of Story Grammar Form 149 Appendix H: Stories for Practicing Story Grammar 150 Appendix I: The Story Grammar of the Selected Pictures…155 Appendix J: Samples of Students’ Pretest and Posttest Storytelling Performance 160 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Different Viewpoints of Story Elements 14 Table 2The Summary of the Story Grammar Instruction 46 Table 3 The Corresponding Pairs and the Issues Addressed 49 Table 4 Instructional Process in Week 1 57 Table 5 Instructional Process in Week 2 59 Table 6 Instructional Process in Week 3 65 Table 7 The List of Conjunctional Adverbs 66 Table 8 Instructional Process in Week 4 73 Table 9 Instructional Process in Week 5 79 Table 10 The Problems Students Encountered and Modifications I Incorporated into Each Phase of the Instructional Process 86 Table 11 The Story Elements Mentioned in Each Practice 89 Table 12 Word Count in the Pre- and Posttest Storytelling 95 Table 13 The Score of Story Elements in the Pre- and Posttest Storytelling 97 Table 14 The Raw Speech Rate in the Pre- and Posttest Storytelling 99 Table 15 The Pruned Speech Rate in the Pre- and Posttest Storytelling 101 Table 16 Extended Pauses in the Pre- and Posttest Storytelling 102 Table 17 The Most Difficult Aspect in Telling Picture-based Stories 105 Table 18 The Most Difficult Story Elements in Telling Picture-based Stories 106 Table 19 The Mean Score of Self-perceived Ability in Telling Picture-based Stories 108 Table 20 The Mean Score of Apprehension in Telling Picture-based Stories 110 Table 21 The Mean Score of Confidence in Telling Picture-based Stories 111 Table 22 The Mean Score of Interest in Telling Picture-based Stories 112

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