選擇適用的教學法在語言教學的執行與課程設計中扮演著重要的角色，教學
法的運用往往會影響學生的學習動機、成效及課堂表現。相對於成人學習者，兒
童在學習第二外語往往都不是出於主動，其習得的過程亦與成人不同。因此，在
操作兒童第二語言教學時，如何選擇適用於兒童學習的教學法也就相對重要。
本文主要探討如何將 TPRS(Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and
Storytelling)模式的教學運用兒童華語課堂中。TPRS 教學法之創始人 Ray(1997)
為西語教師，在其西語課堂中使用 TPRS 教學法獲得了極大的成功。然而，從大
部分與 TPRS 教學法相關文獻或研究中可發現， TPRS 教學運用於二語課堂之研
究多為西語、法語或英語等表音文字語言的學習，較少使用於華語這類表意文字
語言學習課堂中。另外，目前 TPRS 教學法相關研究大多針對成人或年紀較長之
學習者，鮮少針對兒童進行相關的教學研究。
因此，本文探討近幾年對 TPRS 的各項研究與教學原則，設計相關課程，並
施行於小學華語課堂中。研究為期九個星期，進行實驗的學校為紐西蘭兩所公立
小學。實驗過程將學生分為兩組，一組融入 TPRS 教學法於華語課程中，另一組
則使用傳統的語言教學法。在進行九星期課程的過程中，以行動研究方式，不斷
地省思、修正教學施行方式。並在九星期課程結束後，以問卷方式調查當地學生
及觀課教師對於 TPRS 應用於課堂之想法。
本研究發現，TPRS 教學法的故事單詞教學，的確可提升學生的學習興趣。
另外，在比較傳統教學組與 TPRS 教學組學生之學習表現時發現， TPRS 組學生
之學習表現正確率明顯地大於傳統語言教學組。然而，本研究亦發現運用 TPRS
教學法運用於兒童華語教學的一些問題，如一直使用 TPRS 之制式方法進行教學，
學生注意力很快就會分散。因此在實驗過程中，筆者必須不斷地進行修正，並以
遊戲融合 TPRS 教學模式，藉以提高學生的學習興趣。

Use of teaching methods plays an important role in second language acquisition, which influences not only students’ performance in classroom, but also their motivation towards learning and their achievement. In addition, different ages of learners perceive the effectiveness of teaching methods differently. The ways of young learners process a language are usually passive and different from adult’s learning process. As a result, how to choose right and appropriate teaching methods is crucial for a language teacher to succeed in a second language classroom.
This action research centers on how to adapt TPRS instruction to children Chinese language classroom. It involved two groups of students and took nine weeks to administer. One of the groups been taught in TPRS approach and the other was in a more traditional way. The collected data include surveys done by teachers and students to get more ideas of how they feel about the TPRS language classes or the traditional language classes, as well as students’ worksheets.
The findings show that using TPRS approach increases kids’ interests in learning Chinese. After comparing the students’ performance of the worksheets, the TPRS group conspicuously outperform the traditional group. However, the study discovers that the students will still lose their interests little by little when the class was taught only in TPRS. Therefore, integrating TPRS with other interesting activities would serve an ideal way to help enhance kids’ interests and learn Chinese effectively.

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