동화 활용 신체놀이가 정신지체아의 어휘력 향상에 미치는 효과

The Effects of the Physical-Expressing Play Based on Children’s Stories on Mentally Retarded Children’s Vocabulary Acquisition

&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of physical-expressing play based on children’s stories on vocabulary acquisition of mentally retarded children by appling the learning method through children&quot;s stories and physical activities in previous researches.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Six children’s story-books, which were chosen according to the child&quot;s mental age, were rewritten to suit for the physical-expressing play, then given to three mentally retarded children with mental ages of four or older to test their expressive vocabulary abilities and comprehensive vocabulary abilities.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A pool of 120 vocabulary words was formed by extracting twenty words from each children’s story. Subsequently, forty words were selected from the pool to perform pre-arranged tests and post-arranged tests.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The program was performed over the period of eleven weeks: two weeks of the pre-arranged tests, six weeks of twice-a-week implementation of the intervention, and last three weeks of post-arranged tests. Test results were converted to percentage scale for comparison.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results of the study are as follows :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;First, although there were some variations among the subjects, application of physical-expressing play based on children’s stories on linguistic education of mentally retarded children had positive effects on improving the performance of children&quot;s comprehensive vocabulary.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Second, although there were some variations among the subjects, application of physical-expressing play based on children&quot;s stories on linguistic education of mentally retarded children had positive effects on improving the performance of children&quot;s expressive vocabulary.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results above support that physical-expressing play based on children’s stories has positive effects on improving mentally retarded children&quot;s vocabulary acquisition.