Article

The Effect of Activities based on a Literature Approach in a Connection with a Regional Public Library and Family for Young Children

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서혜전

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pp. 23~42 / 2013 Vol.20 No.2

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether activities based on a literature approach in connection with a regional public library and family with young children are effective or not on determining young children's reading motivation and language abilities. Forty-three 5 years old were selected for this study. The participants were divided into two groups, an experimental group of 21 and a control group of 22 young children respectively. The experimental group of parents participated in parent education over the course of 14 weeks and the experiment over 12 weeks with their young child. The experimental group of children had opportunities to participate in an activity based on a literature approach with their parents at home. The control group of young children participated in a children's story telling program in the library. There were no differences between the pre-test scores of two groups. According to the results of this study, it was found that the difference of overall reading motivation and language ability scores between the experimental group and the control group was statistically significant. This result indicates that activities based on a literature approach in connection with a regional public library and a family which promotes the improvement of young children's reading motivation and language ability were indeed significant.

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