토의학습과 유아의 언어능력

Discussion Method in Learning and Young Children's Language Abilities

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effect which the discussion method in learning has on young children's language abilities, and to offer fundamental data for the development of language teaching model to improve young children's language abilities. The subjects were 44 children in public kindergarten of C elementary school in Choeng-won. Chung-buk area, whose average age was 66 months. There were two groups. Half or them were assigned to experimental group, in which the subjects took parts in the discussion for improving the language abilities. The other half of them were assigned to were control group. The results of this study were as follows. First, the young children with discussion method in learning were competent in vocabulary abilities than their counterparts. Second, the young children with discussion method in learning were competent in sentence comprehension abilities than their counterparts. Third, the young children with discussion method in learning was not competent in abilities than their counterparts. Fourth, no sex difference was found in discussion method in learning according to their sex. The results of this study indicate that the discussion activities for fairly tales improve the young children's language abilities, that is, their vocabulary abilities and sentence comprehension abilities. Also, it can be concluded that discussion method in learning has equivalent effect regardless of sex.