| The general consensus of educators of Chinese narrative poetry is that students lack interest in learning classic poetry. Students seem unappreciative of the importance of morals found in the poetry and seem unable to relate these morals to their personal life experiences. One of the reasons students lack the motivation to learn Chinese narrative poetry may be due to the most commonly applied method for teaching poetry, the expository approach. Possibly as a result of using this method of instruction, students lose their concern for the importance of the poetic morals behind the narrative poems.; The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of a varied sequence of two delivery methods---expository and multimedia---applied in the teaching of Chinese narrative poetry.; Its intent is to generate a more effective instructional framework for the teaching of Chinese narrative poems. The study's intent is not to decide which method (expository and multimedia) is better in teaching Chinese narrative poems.; This research concentrates mainly on testing the effects of teaching Chinese narrative poems through different sequence of the two models in hopes of generating more interest in Chinese narrative poems' teaching and learning. In this study, a specified narrative poem, "Mulan Shih", will be taught with a selected multimedia product as well as traditional printed material.; This study provides a theoretical framework for teaching a Chinese literature curriculum. This type of study introduces a new approach to Chinese literature teaching. It is significant in Chinese education in that this study will be extending the perspective of Chinese literature instructions.; The findings add support to the hypothesis that Chinese literature teaching can be supported by multimedia technology which encourages interactions between instructors and students. Alternately using multimedia and expository provides an effective approach for teaching Chinese narrative poems. |
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