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The main purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of the picture-story- guided activities for children towards the language comprehension ability of children. Meanwhile, the study analyzes the effects of different family backgrounds towards the language comprehension ability of children, and furthermore investigates the effects of story teaching towards the reading act of children. The study adopted experimental research approach. It took 60 children, including 30 boys and 30 girls studying at the third year of the kindergarten attached to a primary school of Kaohsiung County, as the targets. They were divided into experimental group and control group. Experimental group was “intervened by teachers” to carry out story teaching, whereas control group carried out “self-reading” of the story books collected by the story book room of the kindergarten. Each of the two groups had two story teaching classes every week, and each class lasted for 30 minutes. There was a total of ten weeks’ story teaching. The study took "self-edited language comprehension test" and "Peabody picture vocabulary test-revised" as the main research tools. The testees received pre-tests of the research tools one week before experimental teaching, and received post-tests within one week after completion of exprimental teaching. Having carried out data processing and statistal analyses by SPSS 8.0, the study had got the following results:
1.Regarding the variable of family backgroud, the children's language comprehension ability is only affected by the mother's education level. The language comprehension ability of different children were not obviously different because of the different sex of children, different orders among their fathers, or different occupations of their parents. However, as the education levels of their mothers were different, there existed obvious differencs of the language comprehension abilities of different children. Therefore, the children's language comprehension ability is only affected by the mother's education level. The higher the mother's education level, the better the children's language comprehension ability. 2.Picture-story-guided activities may affect the language comprehension ability of children. Although the children were grouped in two different groups, the two groups's results of the pre-test of "self-edited language comprehension test" had not reached the expected difference. But the two groups' results in the post-tests of "Peabody picture vocabulary test-revised" were obviously different. Therefore, after the teachers intervened in guided reading in the experimenttal group, the children only had got better results in "Peabody picture vocabulary test-revised" than the self-reading children of control group. The study shows that the teachers' story-guided teaching activities can promote the children's language learning interest an ability. Therefore, picture-story-guided activities can affect the children's language comprehension ability. 3.Story teaching does not increase the children's reading acts. After the teachers had intervened the guided reading for the children of experimental group, the number of times for the children to enter the language area for reading was was not more than those self-readin children of control group. Therefore, story teaching does not increase the children's reading acts. Although the number of children's reading acts had not been obviouly increased, however, having observed the reading situation of children, their reading and learning qualities had been obviouly improved. In the future the researcher can make studies on the aspect of children's reading quality. Focusing on the above results of the study, the researcher makes discussion and gives some suggestions, whcih can be a reference for the children's parents, the kingdergartion teachers and the researchers of the future.
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