[PDF][PDF] Brain Tendency vs. Teaching Evaluation: Are There Necessarily Any Correlations?

YY Wen, PCF Tsengb - The Proceedings of the 2008 Foreign …, 2008 - researchgate.net
YY Wen, PCF Tsengb
The Proceedings of the 2008 Foreign Languages and Literature Teaching …, 2008researchgate.net
Neurolinguists tend to believe that people with a right-brain tendency may find it easier to
receive instructions with images. Dr. Tsailing Liang even argued in her book The Seven
Mistakes in English Education that more than 70% of the students she interviewed belong to
the right-brain category and, therefore, have a hard time receiving print education in Taiwan.
The researchers wonder whether an alternative teaching method pervaded with images can
raise students' satisfaction. To see students' brain inclinations, questionnaires are given to …
Abstract
Neurolinguists tend to believe that people with a right-brain tendency may find it easier to receive instructions with images. Dr. Tsailing Liang even argued in her book The Seven Mistakes in English Education that more than 70% of the students she interviewed belong to the right-brain category and, therefore, have a hard time receiving print education in Taiwan. The researchers wonder whether an alternative teaching method pervaded with images can raise students’ satisfaction. To see students’ brain inclinations, questionnaires are given to four classes of English majors taking the required course A General Introduction to Western Literature, which is taught with multimedia files that abound in paintings, in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages of National Formosa University. And the results are placed in relation to their teacher evaluation scores at the end of the Fall Semester in 2007 Academic Year. To the researchers’ astonishment, what is said by Dr. Tsailing Liang to have been the most dominant group, students with the right brain tendency did not take up as high percentage in the first writer’s classes as Liang’s students did. Students with right brain tendency took up forty percent of the total amount of students. Nearly one third of students stand in the grey zone in between right and left brain tendencies. Despite their varied brain inclinations, students’ evaluation of the teacher’s instructions reflects high level of satisfaction unanimously. With this study, the researchers are proposing another way of teaching by means of multimedia which can be one among other factors that contribute to the high scores of teaching evaluation heedless of their brain tendencies.
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