The purpose of this study was to examine whether the experience of listening to nursery tale was effective for young children's verbal, numerical and everyday life learning, among learning readiness toward elementary shool.
For attaining the purpose,...
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the experience of listening to nursery tale was effective for young children's verbal, numerical and everyday life learning, among learning readiness toward elementary shool.
For attaining the purpose, the following research questions were posed:
The experience of listening to nursery tale is effective for enhancing young children's learning readiness.
1. The experience of listening to nursery tale has an affirmative effect on verbal life area.
2. The experience of listening to nursery tale has an affirmative effect on numerical life area.
3. The experience of listening to nursery tale has an affirmative effect on everyday life area.
The subjects in this study were the five-year old 62 boy and girl young children who were attending A Kindergarten in the small city of P. The half of them were selected as an experiment group, and the other half was selected as a control group.
The test instrument used in this study was Learning Readiness Inventory, a nationwide standardized 『Kyemong Learning Readiness Inventory』 by Kyemong Children's Research Institute in Seoul in 1993. This test was composed of 40 items three areas: verbal, numerical and everyday life areas.
After the pretest was conducted over the two groups, the experiment group listened to 32 nursery tales 16 times for 8 weeks, twice a week. Then posttest was conducted over the two groups, and the collected data were analyzed with SPSS program and ANCOVA in order to test the hypothesis.
The findings of this study were as follows:
First, the experience of listening to nursery tale was actully effective for the verbal learning of the young children. Namely, the young children improved in listening comprehension, reading comprehension, writing skill and speaking skill, by listening to nursery tales. Therefore, the experience of listening to nursery tale seemed to have an affirmative effect on verbal learning.
Second, the experience of listening to nursery tale was effective for the young children's numerical learning. The young children acquired, by listening to nursery tale, better concept of classification, order, space and mathematical principle. So, the experience of listening to nursery tale seemed to have an affirmative effect on numerical learning.
Third, the experience of listening to nursery tale was effective for the everyday life learning. The young children had more knowledge of life by listening to nursery tale and this experience seemed to have an affirmative effect on everyday life learning. But it wasn't expected to exert a good effect on living habit. According to the findings of this study, it could be concluded that the experience of listening to nursery tale had a positive effect on young children's learning readiness of everyday life.
The above mentioned findings of this study suggested that the experience of listening to nursery tale gave an impact on young children's verbal, numerical and everyday life learning readiness for learning activity in elementary school.