大学教育推广至社区民众藉由节庆活动提升仁德乡居民英日语基本沟通.pdf

力 葉 玲 瑩 玲 沈靖 理念精神流 郷行 郷 力識 行 了 識 行 參來見 度數 度連 參 E更 益 21 Extending University Education to Community Folks:A Study of Festival Teaching Activities in Rende Township to Promote Folks’ Japanese and English Competence Chen-Yao Yeh, Yu-Ling Chang, Ching-Ying Chen, Ling-Jung Huang, Dih-Jih Wu, Pei-Pin Huang, Jessica H.C. Shen, Hsiu-Huei Chiu, Cheng-Tzn Chiang, Chiung-Yu Tang Abstract This study attempts to strengthen the folks’ foreign language communication skills and to promote the interaction between the University and its surrounding community. With the perspectives of lifelong learning and community service, a series of festival teaching activities is designed in Rende township. They are Japanese Carp-Flag Festival, Chinese Dragon-Boat Festival, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. These activities are held in the classroom of Da Jia elementary school on four weekends. The lesson plans emphasize cooperative tasks among children and their parents. The atmosphere of festivals is created by the ways of situational arrangement and games playing to lead learners in the awareness of each festival’s culture as well as its key vocabularies. By the comparison of the pre-activity and post-activity tests, the analysis of questionnaires and the observation in the classes, the study, first of all, finds that the learners’ post-test grades are higher than pre-test grades. Second, the learners appreciate to get awareness of different cultures. That is more satisfying than the parts of learning vocabulary and practicing ordinary conversation. The participants enjoy the procedure of the activities and the interaction with the instruct