초등학교 언어 영재 아동과 일반 아동의 언어적 창의성 발달에 관한 연구 = A Study for Developmental Differences of Verbal Creativity of the Verbally Gifted and the Regular Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study explored to find developmental differences of verbal creativity of the verbally gifted and regular students. Thus, two questions were investigated. First, as the grades of the verbally gifted and regular students go up, is divergent thinking of them developed? Second, as the grades of the verbally gifted and regular students go up, is convergent thinking of them developed? Original participants in this study consisted of 720 students(grade of 2nd, 4th and 6th) who were draw from three elementary schools in Busan, Korea. Finally, the 120 students, including 60 the verbally gifted and 60 regular students, were selected through IQ, verbal fluency grades, and teachers` nomination. Then, 120 students` writing were analyzed into divergent thinking and convergent thinking. The results of this study were as follow: According to the result of two-way ANOVA analysis, the higher grade in the verbally gifted and the regular, the more significant improvement is in divergent thinking and convergent thinking. But there were significant differences in verbal creativity between 2nd grade and 6th grade, and between 4th grade and 6th grade in post hoc results, whereas there were no differences of divergent and convergent thinking between 2nd grade and 4th grade. And the verbally gifted showed the higher level of verbal creativity in writing than the regular.