The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of lyric change activity on children's vocabulary and creativity.
The research questions were:
1) Is there difference on the amount of vocabulary between the group of children who sing songs with...
The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of lyric change activity on children's vocabulary and creativity.
The research questions were:
1) Is there difference on the amount of vocabulary between the group of children who sing songs with lyrics they changed and the group of children who sing songs with the original lyrics?
2) Is there a difference between creativity of the group of children who sing songs with lyrics they changed and the group of children who sing songs with the original lyrics?
The research was conducted with 40 children (20 4-year-olds and 20 5-year-olds) at J Kindergarten in Daegu, Korea from January 3 to March 11, 2005.
「Vocabulary Development Test - a subcategory of YSRT」 by Lee, Yeon-seob (1981) and 「Comprehensive Test on Children's Creative Thinking」by Jeon, Kyung-won (2000) were used to measure the amount of vocabulary and creativity of these children. The analysis of covariance(ANCOVA) was conducted on the collected data to find out if the experiment group and comparison group showed differences in the amount of vocabulary and creativity.
The results of the research were as follows:
First, the experimental group showed statistically significant increase in their vocabulary score than the comparison group.
Second, the experimental group showed statistically significant increase in their fluency, imagination and creativity scores than the comparison group.
Based on the research, the study concludes as follows:
First, the activity of lyric change affects children's scope of vocabulary development.
Second, the activity of lyric translation affects children's overall fluency, imagination and creativity positively.