| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
English has been an important subject in Taiwan. Students spend so much time on
memorizing vocabulary and phrases, but they get still get low grades. Days has past, they
sit in the class doing more and more test papers. They are bored with English.
Due to this reason, I come across to change the teaching method in my class. Professor
Chen’s IDC theory and concept of “Future Class” gave me the idea to build a class based
on the concepts of “interest, creation and habit.” Students and the parents use the structure
of “Tomorrow Reading” to implent MSSR and be a storyteller after they read stories.
Students’ acedemic performance is averaage. They are city students who are smart and
curious about everything. From seventh grade to nineth grade, I follow the steps of
“Tomorrow Reading”, from MSSR to introduce books and talk about books in the seventh
grade. In the eighth grade, Theme-based reading which are given based on different
competencies of each student. All books are categorized according to the LEXILE. Lexile
measures reading compencies of each student through reading texts. As to the themebased
reading materials, teachers integrate issues of gender equality, environment, human
rights and human rights into the curriculum. “Write for rights” which held by Amnesty
International to teach them about human right about students, around the society and our
nation. In the ninth grade, students are tired with heavy schoolwork and with little time
reading. After students finished Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior High
School Students, they created their first storybook all by themselves.
The results revealed that students can read various books throughout three years in the
junior high school. They read over almost 400 books in class and above. There are more
in the library. Through reading books and being story tellers, students using reading skills
write book reports. Step by step, they learn from basic memory skills to analytical
strategy to catch the summary of a book. As to Creative writing, they come up with
average 623 words in a passage and with various interesting contents. They are not afraid
of writing stories. Students end up extraordinary test results which are higher than the
average scores of the national students. Students become self-driven learners and the
whole class is full of a harmony atmosphere. Everyone desires to learn with an open
mind and curiosity and they are willing to help others. To sum up, the framework of
reading and writing do help students with the academic performance and promote
intrinsic motivation of learning and interest.
Key words: IDC theory, MSSR, Theme based reading, Creative writing | en_US |