The Effects of Media Intervention of the Swimming teaching Cognitive and motor Skill Achievement of Junior High School Students.

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of media intervention of swimming teaching on the cognitive and motor skill Achievement of junior high school students. There were 90 junior high school students who had never learned swimming before were recruited as the subjects. They were randomly assigned to 3 different teaching groups, including the traditional group, media group and tradition-media group. Except the same 35 minutes of breaststroke practice and guidance by teacher of each session, the students of traditional group had received 10 minutes breaststroke swimming skill instruction and demonstration initially; the media group received 10 minutes media swimming film teaching; and the tradition-media group received 5 minutes concentrated instruction and demonstration and 5 minutes media film teaching. The teaching program lasted for 4 weeks, 2 sessions each week and 45 minutes for each session. All the subjects were received the cognitive performance and skill performance test before and after the 4 weeks swimming teaching. All the collected data were analyzed with dependent t test and ANOCOVA. The results were as followed: 1, The cognitive performance of all the 3 different groups were significantly improved (P<.05).2, The breaststroke skill performance of all the 3 different groups were significantly improved (P<.05).3, The cognitive performance of the tradition-media group after 4 weeks of swimming teaching was significantly better than that of the tradition group and the media group (P<.05).4, The breaststroke skill performance of the tradition-media group after 4 weeks of swimming teaching was significantly better than the tradition group and the media group (P<.05).All the three different teaching methods can improve the cognitive performance and breaststroke skill after 4 weeks of teaching. However, the combination of tradition and media swimming teaching showed the best effects.