동시확장활동이 유아의 어휘력 및 언어표현력에 미치는 효과 = The Effects of Various Extended Poetry Activities on Children' s Language Development

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of various extensions of poetry activities on the development of children`s vocabulary and language expression. Subjects were forty eight children who attended D and M public kindergartens located in K-eup, Chungbuk, Korea. The children were randomly placed in two groups, an experimental group and a control group. The instruments used were Vocabulary Test for 3 to 6 Years Old(Kweon, 1981) and Language Ability Test for Young Children (Chung, 1981). The procedure of the study proceeded the pre-test, treatment I for 8-weeks, post-test I, treatments II for 8-weeks and post-test II. Following the poetry activities, the children in the experimental group engaged in various follow-up poetry activities such as rewriting, dramatics and composition experiences while the children in the control group engaged in no follow-up activity after poetry activities. The collected data was analyzed by ANOVA-repeated measure using a split plot design. The results indicate that: (a) there was a significant difference in vocabulary in use scores between the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group children showed more gains in vocabulary improvement as compared to the children in the control group and the gains were the most after the first 8-weeks treatments. (b) there was no significant difference in phonetic expression scores between two groups. (c) there was a significant difference in language expression ability scores between two groups. The experimental group children showed more gains that the control group and those gains increased to a greater degree than did those of the control group. Moreover, the experimental group`s gains were still in evidence at the end of the semester.