동화 기반 다시 이야기하기를 통한 음성 발화 중심의 초등영어 지도

Developing oral production skills for Korean primary EFL learners through retelling stories

The purposes of this study were to explore the process of implementing retelling based on storybooks in a Korean primary EFL setting, and to investigate the development of children's speaking skills and aspects of their English speaking. The participants of this study were instructed to read and retell stories. The following research questions were proposed: 1) How do children develop their English text understanding and speaking skills through retelling? 2) What are the notable aspects of children's English speaking based on retelling storybooks? The data collected in this study were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results of this study were as follows: First, the children showed deeper understanding of a text by analyzing the structure of the text and then developed English speaking skills through retelling. Second, the children exhibited various aspects of English speaking when they retold stories such as restating the ideas or events of the story in their own words, adopting some techniques when summarizing stories, and showing different aspects of retelling according to the characteristics or types of stories. Based on the results, suggestions for future studies were provided.