| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of this study was to explore the effects on idea-generation through a combination of extensive reading and freewriting which also meant “Elbow-He learning model”, also meant “amount of reading-writing learning model”. This was done firstly through the design and implementation of an “Elbow-He learning system” that could be used by learners to study through the activities of extensive reading and freewriting. Furthermore, this study was conducted in a classroom of fifth-grade students to additionally investigate the practicality of the system, the influence of the language system on fifth-graders’ writing ideas, writing skill, writing attitude, and reading comprehension, and the effectiveness of the curriculum. Changes in the performance of students learning the language arts by this system were analyzed through classroom observations and one-on-one interviews.
A one-group pretest-posttest design was implemented in this study. Participants were 32 students at an elementary school in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. This study was conducted over twelve different learning sessions, two per week. The experimental design consisted of students participating in extensive reading and freewriting activities on the computer. Each student had their own Aspire One notebook computer, also known as a netbook, to study previously written passages and to share their articles, which were primarily written through the freewriting process.
The main results of two-weeks of pre-training and ten-weeks of language activities, derived from both quantitative and qualitative research data, indicated that:
(1)In the aspect of the writing idea generation, the students’ writing ideas progressively increased over time. The Elbow-He learning model can effectively stimulate the generation of more writing ideas among the students.
(2)In the aspect of the writing skills, the students’ writing skills were not observed to make significant progress.
(3)In the aspect of the writing attitude, after the experiment, students overall held more positive attitudes towards writing through language learning model.
(4)In the aspect of the reading comprehension, the students’ reading comprehension improved significantly.
(5)The questionnaire results indicate that in the aspect of feedback on the curriculum, the students felt that it was very easy to use the “Elbow-He learning system”. They enjoyed using the computer to study many language activities, including extensive reading, freewriting and the sharing of articles.
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