The purpose of this study was to confirm that mutual scribble story making has an effect on the vocabulary of the children having delayed language development.
Objects of this study were 4 preschool children from 5 to 6 years old who had delayed lan...
The purpose of this study was to confirm that mutual scribble story making has an effect on the vocabulary of the children having delayed language development.
Objects of this study were 4 preschool children from 5 to 6 years old who had delayed language development and were regarded as over 1 year delayed at PLS Test but had no sense impediments.
Pre-test, mutual scribble story making, and post-test were conducted and these were implemented twice a week for 13 weeks(total 25 times).
The purpose of the study in detail is;
1. To confirm that mutual scribble story making has an effect on receptive vocabulary of children having delayed language development.
2. To confirm that mutual scribble story making has an effect on expressive vocabulary of children having delayed language development.
Test methods to evaluate receptive vocabulary were Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised and Writing Comprehension Test which were used at pre and post-test and those to evaluate expressive vocabulary were collecting word samples from each session of the free play and analyzing utterances so as to evaluate the variations of Type Token Ratio and length of utterances.
The results of the study were;
1. Mutual scribble story making helped 4 children who had delayed language development improve receptive vocabulary.
Comparing pre-test with post-test, each child(child 1, 2, 3, and 4) showed improvement of 1 year and 2 months, 11 months, 1 year, and 11 months at Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, and 11 months, 11 months, 10 months, and 10 months at Writing Comprehension Test
2. Mutual scribble story making helped 4 children who had delayed language development improve expressive vocabulary. A mean to check improvement of expressive vocabulary was to inspect the effect on Type Token Ratio and mean length of utterances.
The result of analyzing utterances to confirm an effect on Type Token Ratio is in Table 1
As you see in Table 1, Type Token Ratio of each child did gradually increase.
Value of Type Token Ratio in each part of speech(noun, verb, preposition, modifier, and etc) was gradually increased though there were fluctuations in each session.
Analyzing utterances of free time for play, Type Token Ratios of 4 children increased; Child 1-0.23, Child 2-0.14, Child 3-0.19, and Child 4-0.16. Type Token Ratio in each part of speech(noun, verb, preposition, and etc) was also improved.
Checking variations of mean length of utterances in words from the result of analyzing utterance of each session to confirm an effect on mean length of utterances, mean length of utterances in words did increase(Child 1-1.48, Child 2-1.81, Child 3-2.22, and Child 4-2.13) and mean length of utterances in morphemes were also improved(Child 1-1.97, Child 2-2.25, Child 3-2.49, and Child 4-2.39).
Scrutinizing the results of tests, mutual scribble story making did have an effect on improvement of children's vocabulary.