The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the scaffolded-writing technique on the writing ability of 5-year old children`s mean-expressional and conventional writing ability.
To specify the study, the detailed research problems in ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the scaffolded-writing technique on the writing ability of 5-year old children`s mean-expressional and conventional writing ability.
To specify the study, the detailed research problems in this study were summarized and classified into the following questions.
1. How much does the Scaffolded-writing technique effect on the mean-expressional writing ability of young children?
2. How much does the Scaffolded-writing technique effect on the conventional writing ability of young children?
In this study, 50 5-year old children were selected from the child care center located in Taegu and WaeGwan. The scaffolded writing in this study was executed for the experimental group in 20 minutes and 3 times a week and total 24 times and 8 weeks. Like the same way, the controlled group was also tested by the journal writing in their free choice activities.
The results of this study were as follow. First, there were significant difference in 4 measurements of the mean-expressional writing ability between the experimental group and the controlled group. The correspondence level of pictures, speech and writing, complexity and integration level of writing contents, fluency level of writing, details level of writing have a significant difference in the level of 5%, whereas there was no significant difference in the elaboration and integration level of pictures. Second, there were significant difference in 5 measurements of the conventional writing ability between the experimental group and the controlled group. The characteristics level of graphics, relationship level of sound-symbol, conventional spelling level, word boundary level, punctuation level have a significant differences in the level of 5%.