Using meaningful verbal learning to improve achievement of Chinese reading course for fifth-grade primary school students

Sun Qianyue

Achievement of Chinese reading

Meaningful verbal learning

Primary school students

Curriculum and Instruction

The purposes of this research were 1) To improve achievement of Chinese
reading course using meaningful verbal learning and 2) To compare student’s
achievement of Chinese reading course between before and after the implementation base on meaningful verbal learning. The sample group were 30 fifth-grade primary school students with 1 class from Yantai Oriental Foreign Language Experimental School, Shandong City, China, those who obtained through the cluster random sampling. The research instruments involved 1) lesson plans according to the meaningful verbal learning theoryand 2) Chinese reading test. The data was statistically analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples.
The results were found that:
1) The improvement achievement of Chinese reading course using meaningful
verbal learning, the researcher developed 3 lesson plans base on meaningful verbal learning by studied the documents and research related from many researchers then synthesized into 5 steps: 1) Attention 2) Transformation3) Evaluation 4) Application and 5) Summary. After students have learned according to the lesson plans: 1) Short story,
2) Narrative, and 3) Ancient poetry base on meaningful verbal learning theory. The result showed that, students’ achievement of Chinese reading course the average score after learning was 21.90 which was higher than the average score before learning was 15.17.

2)The comparison of students' achievement of Chinese reading score before
and after the implementation base on meaningful verbal learning of primary school students. The results showed overall that, students’ achievement of Chinese reading course after learning higher than before learning statistically significant at the level .01.

Keywords: Achievement of Chinese reading, Meaningful verbal learning,
Primary school students

Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University. Office of Academic Resources and Information Technology

Supaporn Srihamee

Jittawisut Wimuttipanya

2023

2024-11-28

2024-11-28

2024-11-28

thesis

application/pdf

TH 372.45 S957U 2023

eng

Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University

Master of Education

Degree of Master

Curriculum and Instruction

Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University