The purpose of this study is to analyze classroom activities involving picture book reading about elementary school on young children's perception of elementary school and self-efficacy for elementary school adjustment.
To acquire the purpose of the s...
The purpose of this study is to analyze classroom activities involving picture book reading about elementary school on young children's perception of elementary school and self-efficacy for elementary school adjustment.
To acquire the purpose of the study, study questions were set as follows;
First, What is the effects of classroom activities involving picture books reading about elementary school on young children's perception of elementary school?
Second, What is the effects of classroom activities involving picture book reading bout elementary school on young children's self-efficacy for elementary school adjustment?
The participants of this study were 37 children from A Children Care Center, who were divided into two groups, one was the experimental group 1 including 19 children and another was the experimental group 2 including 18 children.
To measure the children’s perception of elementary school, ‘Children’s Perception of Elementary School Questionnaire’ produced by modifying the reference questionnaires adapted by Min-Jin Kim(2008), Kyung-soon Lee(2006), Yoon-mi Lee(2007b), Kyung-Ja Cho(2005), Dockett & Perry(1999) and Dockett , Perry, & Whitton(2006). To measure children's elementary school adjustment self-efficacy, 'Test Tool for Self-efficacy of The Elementary School Adjustment' was designed by adapting 'Children's self-efficacy test tool' designed by In-ok Jeon(1996).
The experimental treatment had been conducted for 8 weeks from 16th, September to 7th November in 2013. To the experimental group 1, after reading 16 picture books related to elementary school, games and role-playing activities had been implemented as post-reading activities.
To the experimental group 2, only reading the same picture books had been offered. All of the treatment had carried out 2 times in a week during 8 weeks.
To verify the effects of classroom activities involving picture books related to elementary school on young children's perception of elementary school, the data from the pre and post test was analyzed by adopting Chi-Square to examine the differences between two groups. And to verify the effects of classroom activities involving picture books reading related to elementary school on young children's elementary school adjustment self-efficacy, the data from the pre and post test was analyzed by using t-test, with SPSS Statistics 20.0
The results of this research were summarized as follows.
First, after reading picture books related to elementary school, implementing games and role-play activities as post-reading activities was more positive on young children's perception of elementary school study and teacher's perception than only conducting reading the picture books related to elementary school.
Second, after reading the picture books about elementary school, conducting games and role-play activities as post-reading activities was more positive on young children's self-efficacy for elementary school adjustment than only conducting reading the picture books related to elementary school.
In conclusion, the research showed that after reading the picture books related to elementary school, conducting games and role-play activities as post-reading activities affected positive effects on the young children's perception of elementary school and self-efficacy of elementary school adjustment. Therefore, it suggests that after reading the picture books related to elementary school, carrying out games and role-plays as post-reading activities could be available as effective activities for improving the young children's perception of elementary school and self-efficacy of elementary school adjustment.