Abstract
We provided a 64-hour Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao (the Chinese Phonetic symbol system) remedial program to 81 1st-grade low achievers in Taitung County during a 16-week period. Based on effective components of teaching and learning in the literature, we prepared participant teachers being familiar with the teaching methods and materials that were developed in advance. The remedial program was administered in small group. Besides a remedial teacher, each class has two teaching assistants. The control group, which was composed of 69 students, received various learning assistances from their schools. The results show that, using IQ and pretest scores as covariates, experiment group outperformed the control group on 7 Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao sub-skill tests, as well as on phonological awareness posttests. After the remedial program, according to the reports of the class teachers and remedial teachers, Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao abilities of 71.6% children in the experiment group were apparently improved; whereas 45.1% children in the experiment group, their Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao abilities caught up with their average peers. A follow-up survey 6-month after the completion of the program shows that the Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao abilities of the experiment group still outperformed their counterparts in the control group. However, the progress in Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao has not transferred to character recognition and reading comprehension.
| Keywords: | Chu-Yin-Fu-Hao ; Chinese phonetic symbol system; remedial program; low achievers |
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