| dc.description.abstract | This study explored the relationship between family environment, personal factors, word properties of the Chinese language textbook and the learning effect of words of the second graders. These words were taken from the first and second year’s Chinese language textbooks where word properties including word frequency, times of appearance and word categories were considered. Almost all these words are nouns and verbs, and the word that appears once is the most.
We recruited 173 grade 2 students from eastern part and western part of Taiwan and measured their character size, word recognition and semantic knowledge of words in the textbook. We also used questionnaire to collect students’ family environment (location, parents’ education, shared-reading frequency ) and personal factors (character size, extracurricular reading frequency, borrowing book’s frequency ).In general, the average of passing rate was around 90% for both word recognition and sematic knowledge. In word recognition, all of the word properties did not explain the variance of difference, but word category was significant in explaining sematic knowledge variance. The lowest passing rate occurred when the word was low frequency, one time appearance, and verb. Character size is the most important factor predicting word learning in textbooks, followed by frequency of extracurricular reading and borrowing books.
On the whole, the vocabulary learning effect of the second grade students in the textbooks of elementary school is very good. It may be that these vocabularies are too simple for the lower grade students. Therefore, it is recommended to conduct a follow-up study on the elementary school middle grades to check the current textbooks. Whether the difficulty of the vocabulary is too simple, causing the amount of extracurricular reading to continue to affect future reading performance.
Keywords:
words in textbooks, word category, words’ frequency, word’s appearance, family environment, personal factors, the learning effect of words. | en_US |