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The main purpose of this action research is to investigate the enhancement of learning interest and the ability of homophone recognition by teaching strategies on homophone to 23 second-graders. The progress and improvements in the process of this study are also discussed.
All of the homophonic characters used in this study were picked from lesson 1 to lesson 11 in Chinese textbook Book Four. The homophonic characters were connected with words learned in Book One to Book Three. In order to establish the basic concept and meaning of the characters, every words were taught by different strategies to help students to acquire the ability of recognition and application. The results and discussions are summarized as follows.
(1) This study improves students’ learning efficiency of homophone recognition. Etymology teaching enhances students to make connection between character patterns and literal meanings. Radical-group-text teaching helps students to understand literal meaning from words and phrases in the articles. Stem-Deriving Instruction emphasizes the concept of radicals. Students’ acquired the applications of homophonic characters through the teaching of three strategies.
(2) This study enhances t studeants’ interests in learning Chinese characters.
(3) This study promotes the teachers’professional abilities.
Keywords: Etymology teaching, Radical-group-text, Stem-Deriving Instruction, homophone, Teaching Strategies
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