Phonics-skill Performance of Grade-Six Students in a Remote Area in Taiwan

臺灣偏遠地區國小六年級學生字母拼讀相關能力之研究

王毓瑄(Yu-Hsuan Wang) ； 張芳琪(Fang-Chi Chang)

《南台人文社會學報》 23期 (2020/05) Pp. 83-107

摘要

This report presents the results of a study of four tests examining 30 grade-six students' phonics-skill performance. These four tests of nine sub-tests include naming letters, producing the sounds of letters, blending the letter sounds to say aloud a word, breaking a spoken word into letter sounds and writing down the spelling of the word, etc. After receiving formal English education for at least three and a half years, these participants performed well only in naming letters and repeating after but not in the other sub-tests. Pearson correlation coefficient indicated that most sub-tests are correlated with some sub-tests having higher correlation. The analysis of the participants' oral productions recorded through the test procedure shows that some participants did not recognize some common digraphs (e.g. -ee- in yeek, a pseudoword) and spelling patterns of certain common syllable structures (e.g. -ute in cute), which were instructed in the textbooks.

關鍵字

Taiwan ； elementary school ； EFL ； phonics

並列摘要

本研究調查了台灣偏遠地區30位國小六年級學生的英文字母拼讀能力。研究者以一對一的方式引導這些學生進行4個與英語字母拼讀能力相關的測驗。這4個測驗包含9個次測驗項目，包括說出字母所代表的字母音、結合字母音而說出單字的發音、將一個單字的發音拆解成其組合的字母音、拼字等。這些學生已經學英文至少3年半的時間，然而測驗結果顯示學生只有在「辨認字母」與「聽音後覆誦」這2個測驗表現良好，其他測驗結果不如預期。測驗相關分析顯示大多數的測驗呈正相關。考試過程所錄得的學生口說資料進一步顯示學生對於字母拼讀知識不足。例如，部分學生不知道-ee-合體字母的發音（例如，假字yeek），不知道某些特定音節結構的拼字組型發音（例如，cute中的-ute的發音）。

並列關鍵字

台灣小學 ； 英語 ； 字母拼讀