Title
A study of students’ IT skills related to their reading ability.
Research Question
Explore students’ habit of using IT in their daily life.
How IT effect reading their reading ability?
Study participants
All primary 4 students in researcher’s school. (60 people)
They are selected because most of them have their own cell phone and they are able to use IT in their daily life. Also, their reading ability is still developing.
Why is this important topic to study?
I choose this topic because as we all know EDB is promoting to use IT to help in learning for these years, but some days ago, I read a news which shown only 24% of primary 4 students meet the basic Chinese reading skill requirement. The reason is students always use informal language to communicate with their friends using MSN or SMS. I just wonder is the technology helping for teaching?
Also, PowerPoint, graphic, animation are mostly used by teacher in their lesson. These IT tools usually don’t have many words but pictures. (a picture means thousand words) The picture definitely should help the students to know the concept of the topic easily, but they read less word and their language skill cannot be improved.
For the reasons above, I am planning for this research project since I believe that IT can help in teaching. The problem is how to use IT in teaching. I would like to find out this question in order to keep education in a correct direction.
How will data be collected and analyzed
I choose Chinese language to be exanimate subject since children are learning Chinese in lesson but they are using Cantonese in technology world. Also, these two languages are so similar. Students are easily to get confuse.
I select two class. Each class will use different teaching tools in their lesson. One will use IT graphic tools and the other use non graphic tools, for example blackboard.
In each class, the students will be separate into groups. One group is good at using informal language all the time, especially when they are using MSN and SMS. The other group can only use formal language.
The data this research will uses are the following:
Chinese term test result.
The speed of typing a Chinese speech.
Students will listen to a speech and they need to use MSN to
type the message in the speech. The time spend will be recorded.
2 comments:
I think that your research topic is too broad and so it will be very complicated, the term IT skill can include many aspects. For a small scale research, the research question should be narrowed down.
"The other group can only use formal language" Does this group mean that the students don't use that informal language nor even msn? But is it difficult to find such participants with the same age group as the peer culture is so strong.
Lo Yin Ling Vickie
I agree to vickie, but this topic is interesting and I want to know the result too!
I think a survey can be done to obtain students IT usage (e.g. time, types of tools used) and result of Chinese exam, to see if there is any correlation between.
(It's sad that I can't copy you project and do it :P)
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