國小學童英語音素能力的電腦化訓練環境

Abstract

综合國外許多研究與現行教學發現，音素覺識學習是台灣學童比較缺乏的訓練，本研究目的旨在設計輔助國小學生音素覺識能力之CAI教學軟體，並進行實証性研究，以檢測學童使用此教學軟體後其音素覺識能力提昇之成效。依據音素覺識相關教學理論以及遊戲化學習軟體設計原則實作一音素覺識遊戲化學習軟體，內容包含：音素辨識、音素切割、音素組合三大技能的教學與操作練習。 研究以81位國小一年級學童為實驗對象，實驗組使用CAI軟體進行學習，控制組採用傳統的課堂教學方式。結果顯示，就整體而言，使用此軟體與傳統課堂教學方式在音素覺識能力之促進效果沒有顯著差異，但於音素切割能力部分，CAI軟體教學則有顯著成效，此外，學生對於使用此軟體學習，持正向態度，並且也可以提升他們對英語的學習動機。

ABSTRACT Comparing the foreign teaching and research, we can find out that students in Taiwan lack for the training of phonemic awareness. The purpose of this research is to design a game-based learning software to help elementary school students improving their skills of phonemic awareness. And the design of the software focus much on how to make students to recognize phonemes, segment phonemes and blend phonemes. The subjects were 81 first-graders. Some students use the CAI software learning and the others are taught by the teacher. The results of the research show that the learning effect of the students using the CAI software has no significant difference. Nevertheless, the CAI software can help the students improving their skill of the phonemic segmentation. Furthermore, the students’ attitudes toward the CAI software are positive. The CAI software also can motivates students to learn English,