The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wordless picture book story making on kindergartner's narrative competence.
Subjects were 20 girls and 20 boys kindergartners selected randomly in one kindergarten. And they were assigned ra...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wordless picture book story making on kindergartner's narrative competence.
Subjects were 20 girls and 20 boys kindergartners selected randomly in one kindergarten. And they were assigned randomly in one experimental and one control group. The experimental group children were required to make story on five wordless picture books during five sessions. That is, each children made one story about each page and one story about whole book.
In the experiments a mixed, between-subjects, within-subjects, design was used. Two between-subjects factors were story making (experimental group vs. control group) and gender of children (female vs. male). One within-subjects factors was testing time (pretest vs. posttest). The criterion variables were scores of local narrative competence and global narrative competence. Local and global narrative competence corresponded to microcomprehension and macrocomprehension text according to text comprehension theory of van Dijk and Kintsch.
Main findings of the study were as follows:
First, story making on wordless picture book improved global narrative competence in kindergartners. These improvement was not significantly different between girls and boys. These effects were due to comprehension of overall structure of story.
Second, both local and global narrative competence were facilitated more after than before the intervention for experimental group.