The purpose of this research is to examine how effects of story-making activities on young children's language expression and drawing representation abilities.
The research questions determined above are as follows.
1. What are the effects of young ch...
The purpose of this research is to examine how effects of story-making activities on young children's language expression and drawing representation abilities.
The research questions determined above are as follows.
1. What are the effects of young children's language expression through story-making activities?
2. What are the effects of young children's drawing representation ability through story-making activities?
The subjects in this study were 40 young children who were enrolled in two different multi-age classes of H kindergarten in C province. The mean age of subjects was 68.50 months. The experimental and control groups were similar in terms of residential area, educational level of parents and living standard. When pre-test was conducted to see if they were equivalent or not, there was no significant gap in language expression and drawing representation abilities between the two groups, which signified that both groups were equivalent.
After reading story to the experimental group, that group had a discussion in small group and then made story-making activities based on the story. The control group listened to story and then was engaged in regular follow-up activities in small group. The instrument used to assess their language expressiveness by Jang Young-Ae(1981)'s Language Expressive- ness Test, 'Language Competence Inventory' of and Chi Sung-Ae(2001)'s Drawing Represnetation Rating Scale was empolyed. The eight segments of this scale was put to use, except one about connection between representation and lagnuage.
Date of pre-test and post-test was analysised by t-test for kwnowing effects of the experiment.
Frist, the experimental group that participated in the story-making activities by using fair tales scored significantly better in language expressiveness than the control group that took part in the typical story activities. And the former scored significantly higher than the latter in the number of words, sentence, consistency of contents and creative expression, which were all the sub-areas of verbal expressiveness. Those findings illustrated that the story-making activities through story-making had a better effect on boosting the verbal expressiveness of the young children than the typical story-making activities.
Second, the experimental group that performed story making by using story-making scored significantly better in drawing representation than the control group that fulfilled the typical story-making activities. Besides, the former excelled the latter in combination of basic diagram and line, use of diverse colors, harmony of construction, forms, theme-related representation and creative representation, which were the subareas of drawing representation skills. Those findings suggested that the story-making activities based on story-making were more effective in enhancing the representation skills of the young children than the typical story-making activities.
In conclusion, story-making activities were conducive to improving young children language expressiveness and drawing representation abilities. In the future, a variety of story-making activities are expected to be applied to language and art education in early childhood school.