패턴이 있는 이야기책이 초등학교 영어 학습부진 학생의 기초 문해력 발달에 미치는 영향

The effects of patterned picture books on the development of elementary underachievers’ literacy in English.

This study aims to examine the effects of patterned picture books on underachieving elementary school students’ early literacy including vocabulary knowledge and reading abilities. A single subject research across three English underachievers was employed and three students between the fifth and the sixth grades in elementary levels participated in the study. During the intervention period, three students studied seven patterned picture books, read English vocabulary and text. The three students’ improvement of memorizing vocabulary and reading English sentences was evaluated in every session. The entire study took eight weeks, three times a week and each session was around 50 minutes on average. The result indicated that all three students in this study improved their English early literacy abilities including vocabulary knowledge and reading abilities. All three students showed positive achievement in their memorizing and reading English vocabularies and text at the end of the intervention sessions.