딕토글로스(dictogloss)를 통한 초등 6학년 학습자의 의문문 습득 양상

The sixth graders’ acquisition of question forms through dictogloss

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of dictogloss on elicited question formation. Three research questions were framed. Firstly, does dictogloss make any difference when we elicit questions? Secondly, how does dictogloss influence the acquisition of question forms according to sixth graders’ proficiency? Thirdly, which question forms are effectively acquired through dictogloss? The children in question are 50 sixth graders from two classes in an elementary school located in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea. One class was designated as an experimental group and the other as a control one. Eight texts from storybooks or English textbooks were given to the participants in the experimental group for 15~20 minutes each week over the eight week period, where dictogloss was conducted in one group. This study is designed as both a pretest and a post-test for non-equivalent groups. The participants’ error types were analyzed based on the result of both their pre-test and post-test. The main results of this study are as follows. Firstly, it is more effective in the acquisition of question forms to conduct dictogloss as the means to reconstruct the text which they were provided. Particularly, the results of the post-test showed that the experimental group had more statistically significant difference than the control one. Secondly, there is a significant improvement in the production of question forms in the intermediate and lower proficiency groups due to dictogloss. Thirdly, wh-subjective questions and wh-adverbial questions are affected by dictogloss. Based on these findings, this study suggests the following. Over all, it is an effective way to teach sixth graders the English question forms through dictogloss. Secondly, dictogloss is one method to attract learners’ attention about the language forms when teachers present a new text or a song(chant) from textbooks to young learners.