독자의 정의적 영역 발달 = Readers` development in affective domain

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental trends ofelementary students’attitude toward recreational reading and academic reading.Especially, the study examined how children’s grade and reading ability have aninfluence on the development of their recreational reading and academic reading.1534 first-to-sixth elementary schoolers were participated in the study and KoreanElementary Reading Attitude Survey(KERAS) was used for the data collection. Results from the study document a negative trend in elementary students’attitude toward recreational reading as they pass through the elementary grades.After fourth grade, especially, their recreational reading attitude has a tendency tosignificantly drop. Regarding the effect of their reading ability on it, results indicatethat higher reading group as a group possess more positive recreational readingattitude than lower groups at all grade levels. However, such significant differencesamong the groups almost disappeared as they pass the sixth grade.Similarly, results from the study document a negative trend in elementarystudents’attitude toward academic reading as they pass through the elementarygrades. After fourth grade, their academic reading attitude has a tendency tosignificantly decline. Regarding the effect of their reading ability on it, resultsindicate that higher reading group as a group possess more positive academicreading attitude than lower groups at all grade levels. However, such significantdifferences among the groups have almost disappeared as they pass the sixth grade. These results might be attributed to a rapid decrease in reading time and in cognitive and affective satisfaction from reading and a change in readers` reading purpose and in expectation of significant persons to readers. Implication for reading educators seem clear. Early intervention in an effort to preempt reading difficulties and to provide better reading instruction, reading environment, and time to read may curb such attitude decline.