The purpose of this study is to find the effects of brainstorming in story discussion activities on young children's self concepts and language abilities.
For this purpose, the following study questions were established.
Study question 1.
Are there an...
The purpose of this study is to find the effects of brainstorming in story discussion activities on young children's self concepts and language abilities.
For this purpose, the following study questions were established.
Study question 1.
Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's self concepts?
1-1. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's physical self-concepts?
1-2. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's social self-concepts?
1-3. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's emotional self-concepts?
1-4. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's cognitive self-concepts?
Study question 2.
Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's language abilities?
2-1. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's common sense abilities?
2-2. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's comprehension abilities?
2-3. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's vocabulary abilities?
2-4. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's commonness abilities?
2-5. Are there any effects of brainstorming on young children's sentence abilities?
The subjects of this research were 40 young children who attended H kindergarten in Gwang-ju. The 20 children of the experimental group were allowed to have brainstorming in story discussion activities and the 20 children of the comparative group had teacher-lead story time as ordinary. The process was composed of preliminary study, pre-investigation, experimental treatments of 5 weeks, and post-investigation in order. The period of experiment was 5 weeks from Aug. 9 to Sep. 10, 2004 with total 15 times, three times a week, for 30 minutes. The measuring tool for children's self concepts were the Self-concept Assessment by Lee, Hyun-kyung(2004) and the measuring tool for children's language abilities was the language ability assessment of the K-WPPSI(Korean-Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence). To examine the effects of brainstorming in story discussion activities on young children's self concepts and language abilities, this study used SPSS/PC 10.0 program and the results were analyzed with T-test.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows.
First, the young children in the experimental group which had brainstorming made a statistically significant difference in children's self concept.
Second, the young children in the experimental group which had brainstorming made a statistically significant difference in such lower factors, physical, social, emotional, cognitive self-concepts.
Third, the young children in the experimental group which had brainstorming made a statistically significant difference in children's self language abilities.
Fourth, the young children in the experimental group which had brainstorming made a statistically significant difference in such lower factors, common sense, comprehension, vocabulary, commonness, sentence abilities.
In conclusion, it is found that brainstorming in story discussion activities has influence on children's self concepts and language abilities. This suggests brainstorming can be effective teaching-learning methods for children's self concepts and language abilities.