The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two contrasting approaches of storybook reading on verbal expressive abilities according to children's information processing styles.
For sampling the subjects of this study, Korean version of...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two contrasting approaches of storybook reading on verbal expressive abilities according to children's information processing styles.
For sampling the subjects of this study, Korean version of the K-ABC Intelligent Test(Moon, Soo-Back, et al, 1997) was administered as pre-test for 126 children aged 4-6 who were attending D kindergarten in Daegu city.
For the study according to children's information processing styles, 20 children of sequential processing subjects and 20 children of simultaneous processing subjects were sampled randomly based on their average age and intelligence.
And the two groups were divided into 4 test groups (each group with 10 children) by the experimental approach and the analytic approach.
The procedures of the research design were divided into three parts.
First part of the research design was pre-test which was reading two times of the storybook reading.
Second part of the research design was 10 sessions of experimental treatment which was reading with experimental and analytic storybook read.
Third part of the research design was post-test which was express verbally with new story.
For making story test, story length was analyzed into words, sentences, and described-words which was used the story.
For analyzing the quality of story, Morrow's measuring instruments which used in the 'Retelling story after listening'(1990), which is modified by Chae, Jong-Ok(1995), is used for this research.
ANCOVA procedures were utilized to analyze the data.
Followings are the results of this study;
Firstly, in case of story length and quality, the children group of simultaneous processing got higher grades than those of the children group of sequential processing. Therefore the simultaneous group were superior than the others in all.
Secondly, in case of story length and quality, the children group of experimental approach got higher grades than those of the group of analytic approach.
Thirdly, for the interactive effects between information processing styles and approach methods on storybook reading, there was statistically significant interactive effect in all the described-words and the quality of story, and there was not statistically differences in all the words and sentences which is the lower elements of story length.