The purpose of this study is to recognize the difference between verbal responses and nonverbal responses of 5-year-old Young children in the twin texts reading situation of informational picturebooks and narrative picturebooks.
According to this obj...
The purpose of this study is to recognize the difference between verbal responses and nonverbal responses of 5-year-old Young children in the twin texts reading situation of informational picturebooks and narrative picturebooks.
According to this objective, research questions were set as follows.
1. Is there a difference on Young children's responses (verbal response, nonverbal response) about informational picturebooks between the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the twin texts reading situation of narrative picturebooks andinformational picturebooks?
1-1. Is there a difference on Young children's verbal responses about informational picturebooks between the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the twin texts reading situation of narrative picturebooks and informational picturebooks?
1-2. Is there a difference on Young children's nonverbal responses about informational picturebooks between the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the twin texts reading situation of narrative picturebooks and informational picturebooks?
The target of this study was 28 kindergarten pupils who are 5-year-old in S kindergarten located in Kunsan city. For this study, I divided the Young children into 7 subgroups by 4 and read them 3 sets (6 books) of picture books paired with 3 informational picturebooks, informational picturebooks and narrative picturebooks. Subgroup reading situation was recorded by a digital camera and only response on informational picturebooks in both the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the twin texts reading situation was imprinted. To analyze the responses of the infants, I used it by categorizing them into verbal response and nonverbal response, referring to the studies of Sin, Hyeon-sook (1999), Kim, Hyeon-hui (2000), Sim, Hyang-boon (2007). The imprinted data based on analysis criteria were classified into verbal and nonverbal response and frequency and percentage were calculated. Also, to identify the difference between the two situations, Paired Samples T Test was conducted by using SPSS 12.0 statistics program.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, in the twin texts reading situation, the Young children showed approximately 3 times higher verbal responses than the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the difference was statistically significant. Second, in the verbal response, both the twin texts reading situation and the reading situation of informational picturebooks have the highest informational response. Third, in the twin texts reading situation and the reading situation of informational picturebooks, if we look at the difference in the responses by sub-item of verbal response, to explain and to ask in informational response and reasoning response in heuristic response and matching response in personal response and imaginary response in imaginative response showed significant differences. Fourth, assessment response in verbal response was showed at 0.4% and 0.2% respectively in the twin texts reading situation and the reading situation of informational picturebooks. Through this, it turned out that Young children hardly think likes and dislikes on the animals appearing in informational picturebooks. Fifth, in the twin texts reading situation, the Young children showed approximately 3 times higher nonverbal responses than the reading situation of informational picturebooks and the difference was statistically significant. They showed the highest response in 'picture' in the reading situation of informational picturebooks and 'event' in the twin texts reading situation. This study shows that when using informational picturebooks as teaching media, a strategy pairing up informational picturebooks and narrative picturebooks around a specific topic can increase concentration of Young children on informational picturebooks and broaden the width of interactions. This can be used as a material for teachers to develop educational programs based on informational picturebooks in the field of early childhood education.