The research of choral reading strategies in enhancing the abilities of secondary students in modern Chinese poetry appreciation = Ji ti lang du dui ti sheng zhong xue sheng xin shi xin shang neng li de yan jiu

Abstract

Hong Kong's curriculum neglects the importance of modern Chinese poetry appreciation. Students have fewer opportunities to be exposed to the poetry in the formal curriculum. Therefore, students are not familiar with the characteristics of the poetry and have no interest to appreciate poetry. I believe Choral Reading is the most effective way to enhance the abilities of secondary students in Modern Chinese poetry appreciation with limited lesson time. Unfortunately, many schools just regard Choral Reading as a form of performing arts, but ignoring it can actually be used as a method of language teaching.

Because of that, this study is an action research which aims to investigate the effectiveness of Choral Reading in enhancing the abilities and interests of secondary students in Modern Chinese poetry appreciation as well as to reflect the feasibility of Choral Reading as a teaching method. This research will use triangulation method to examine the research results in different ways.

The research findings showed that reading can particularly enhance students 'collective perception and imagination, but it failed to effectively enhance students' ability in comprehension and evaluation. In addition, after having the lesson of Choral Reading, students' interest in reading Modern Chinese poetry greatly enhanced. Finally, I found that Choral reading with multiple teaching ways can enhance students' learning motivation and interest.

香港的新詩欣賞教學備受忽視，學生較少機會在正規課程接觸新詩，難以對新詩有足夠的理解，從而提升其對新詩的興趣。筆者認為在有限的課時下，集體朗讀是最有效提升學生新詩欣賞能力的方法，可惜現在很多學校都會視之為藝術表演的一種形式，卻忽略這其實是可以作為語文教學的一種方法。

因此，是次研究是一項行動研究，旨在探討集體朗讀對提升新詩欣賞能力和興趣的成效，並從中反思集體朗讀作為教學方法的可行性。本研究會運用三角測量法，多方面去檢視研究成效。

研究結果發現集體朗讀能特別提升學生的感知能力和想像力，但就未能有效提升學生理解和評價方面的能力。此外，經過集體朗讀課後，學生對於閱讀新詩的興趣大大提升。最後，筆者發現集體朗讀配合多元的教學模式提升學生的學習動機和興趣。