Wayne Tan, Dr. Shi-Chang Tseng & Dr. Den-chuan Tsai,
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
The researcher took a great opportunity of an English teaching experimental program in junior high schools- " Survey, Question, Read, Review, Review, and Recite as well as Student's Team Achievement Division (SQ4R & STAD)” which was undertaken through six-month processes of a newly designed English Improvement Teaching Project by a group of junior high school teachers under the supervision of university faculty members in Taiwan. This action research, employing qualitative approaches of grounded-theory implementation, emphasized on the following research purposes: 1. to identify the effective approaches implementing the SQ4R and STAD strategies to English teaching in junior high schools; 2. to insight understand the realistic needs of English teachers in junior high schools while undertaking pioneering pedagogical experiments; 3. to explore the effects of this innovative English teaching improvement project, SQ4R and STAD, on high school students’ learning achievement; and 4. to reflect the collaboration approaches between university faculty experts and high school teachers for on-the-spot teaching for junior high students. This action study obtained the following conclusions: 1. The SQ4R and STAD model seems effective for English teaching for junior high school students as long as the teaching leaders clarifies the teaching guides and action plans of six steps in English teaching activities; 2. This pioneering teaching model provides English teachers consistently observe and understand young students’ learning achievement and difficulties; the on-the-spot teachers can adjust their teaching contents and strategies to reach the best effectiveness with immediate feedbacks. 3. Students’ effective learning highly relies on sufficient reading materials and textbooks in this innovative model; these supplementary reading materials, collaborating with computer-aided instruction, assist young students to understand and transfer into their comprehension; 4. This innovative teaching approach makes junior high students’ learning effective due to advanced communication devices, tablet PCs, which provide both teachers and students with sufficient and speedy supportive teaching materials.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.LLLD.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Iran-Ahwaz.