실과 교과서 기술 영역의 내용 진술에 사용된 기술 용어의 진술 특성 및 학생 집단의 인식도

Character of Description and Degree of Cognition of Students on Technological Terms Written in Practical Arts Textbooks of Elementary School

This study was conducted to investigate the number of technological terms and the degree of cognition of elementary school students on technological terms in Practical Arts textbooks of elementary school. The results of this study are as followings: First, the total number of technological terms in elementary Practical Arts textbooks is 103 in 5th grade and 61 in 6th grade. It comes to 6.4 per page in 5th grade and 4.4 per page in 6th grade. Second, the number of object shape-related technological terms is 93 in 5th grade and 56 in 6th grade. Theses mean 90% in 5th grade and 92% in 6th grade of total number. Third, the number of technological terms according to the type of terminology is 56(54%) in Korean or Chinese language, 32(31.4%) in English, 15(14.6%) in the mixed korean and english. Fourth, the number of technological terms with low degree of cognition of elementary school students is 55(53.45) in 5th grade, 18(29.5%) in 6th grade. That of 5th grade comes to 3.1 times compared with that of 6th grade. But the number of technological terms with high degree of cognition of elementary school students is 26 in 5th grade, 14 in 6th grade Fifth, the number of technological terms with statistic difference in degree of cognition between the gender is 10 in male group, 2 in female group of 5th grade. And that is 1 in male group, 11 in female in 6th grade.