An Action Inquiry to Improving Taiwanese EFL Students' Reading Habits

改善台灣EFL學生的閱讀習慣之行動研究

史穎君(Ying-Chun Shih)

《北商學報》 17期 (2010/01) Pp. 91-104

https://doi.org/10.29871/JNTCB.201001.0006

摘要

行動研究重視自我省思，特別強調改變－人的想法先改變，再改變環境。本研究旨在以行動研究，發現問題，証實問題之存在，提出對策以求改善，並評量其結果。參與者為台灣北部一所商業技術學院應用外語科五專部四年級的二十位學生，研究工具為網路問卷和線上訪談。
本研究進行的步驟為：開始階段－藉由研究者的觀察，發現問題；初步調查階段－藉由問卷和訪談，証實該問題之存在；實施對策階段－進行廣泛閱讀三個月，以培養其閱讀習慣；評量結果階段－以訪談方式評量其結果。
本研究發現，受試者喜愛廣泛閱讀；並了解“英文讀得越多，英文閱讀能力越好”。雖然其中一位受試者在進行廣泛閱讀時，遇到一些困難；整體而言，參與者願意繼續英文廣泛閱讀的習慣。

關鍵字

行動研究 ； 自我省思 ； 廣泛閱讀 ； 閱讀習慣

並列摘要

Action research is a form of collective inquiry involving self-reflective concepts that participants in social situations undertake to improve the following: (1) the rationale and justice of their own social or educational practices; (2) the participants' understanding of these practices within the situations in which they carry out these practices. As a result of highlighting change, people change. This creates a new reformed situation.
The purpose of this study is to work with a small group of students in a business college in northern Taiwan, in order to foster their reading habits. This study contains the following steps: initiation, preliminary investigation, intervention, and evaluation. The approaches involved entail carrying out a student email questionnaire and online interviews.
Overall, the results of this action inquiry were very encouraging. The evidences show that the participants enjoy extensive reading, and are well aware that the more they read the better readers they will become.
Within this study, one of the participants encountered a little difficulty whilst reading extensively. However, the overall willingness to keep this reading habit was favoured unanimously within the selected group of students.

並列關鍵字

action research ； self-reflect ； extensive reading ； reading habit