威廉斯(F.E. Williams)創造思考教學策略對國小造句教學影響之研究－以台中縣鐵山國小四年誠班爲例

Abstract

Sentence-making practices appear in Mandarin workbook of each lesson in the existing elementary school textbooks. In comparison to vocabulary and phrase practice, such condition gives rise to the difficulty of sentence-making practice for students. In such context, most students' eager desire to finish their homework thus sees their perfunctory learning attitude of copying textbook. In view of this phenomenon, how to guide students to write rich-content and novel sentences will be the key to improve language teaching, an urgent issue that researchers have eager desire to solve.Teaching for Creative Thinking by F.E. Williams offers researchers one brand new method of teaching thinking. By virtue of six thinking methods in teaching strategies, contradiction, variation method, examples of habit, tolerance for ambiguity, intuitive expression and creative listening skill, this study aims to delve into if Teaching for Creative Thinking will significantly enhance elementary students' ability in total number of words in sentence making, word choice, use of punctuation marks and sentence-making quotient.The research subjects are the fourth-graders guided by the researcher. Adopting the pre-post test in single subject research method in this study, this research brings four findings: Teaching for Creative Thinking by F.E. Williams shows significance difference in total number of words in sentence making, but students' ability in word choice, use of punctuation marks and sentence-making quotient.This research will be great benefit to teachers to offer more effective sentence-making strategies and further eliminate the strategies which will not benefit to sentence-making teaching, in the hope of facilitating teachers' sentence-making teaching and leading students to a happy learning.