REFLECT

Based on the readings you made and the previous activities that you have done.

1. What significant ideas or concepts have you learned about action research?

I learned that action research is a valuable tool for educators, as it helps identify and address problems in the classroom, leading to improved teaching processes and enhanced student learning outcomes. 

2. Have you realized that there is a need to be an action researcher as a future teacher? Yes / No . If yes, complete the sentence below. 

I realized that in order to improve classroom practices and enhance the quality of teaching, it is essential to conduct action research. This allows teachers to find appropriate and effective solutions to the challenges they and their students encounter. 

Work on my Artifacts

Your artifacts will be an Abstract of a completed action research.

An Action Research on Improvement of Reading Comprehension of CET4

Jian-ping Luo

ABSTRACT

This action research is aiming at improvement of reading comprehension of College English teaching and learning, which is a major time-consuming course with low efficiency in colleges and universities in China. The research subjects were 134 first-year college students of science, engineering and liberal arts, who were from either developed provinces or developing ones. The reading materials used for this research were from passages of reading comprehension of CET4 of each year. This action research went through two stages, at the first of which it focused on improvement by skills-based teaching, but with not much improvements obviously, and at the second of which, after a deep analysis, it combined with text-based teaching and introduced linguistic and schematic knowledge, and finally achieved a good improvement of reading ability with the result showing significant difference, compared with that of the first stage.