Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of story retelling to parents for young children's listening ability and story comprehension ability. The participants were 32 young children, age of 5, in two different classes of two public kindergarten located in Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do. The experimental group are composed of 16 young children, age of 5(7 boys, 9 girls), in the Kindergarten located in Elementary School “G”. The control group are made up of 16 young children, age of 5(8 boys, 8 girls), in the Kindergarten located in Elementary School “D”. As for a research tool, this study used listening test tool developed by Nam-Mi, Jeong by referring “SVT : Sentence Verification Teachting” concepted by Royre(1979) and evaluated by Yoon-Young, Choi. To measure young children's story comprehension ability, this study utilized dynamic assesment tool devised by Kyoung-Chul, Kim & Mi-Young, Kim, which has two sub-categories as repeated speaking & listening comprehension ability. To identify the effects of listening and story comprehension abilities of young children, this study calculated pre & post test results of &quot;Average and Standard deviation&quot; between experimental group and control group. In addition to this data, T-test on increment was utilized to ensure the data by subtracting the pre-test scores from post-test results.The results of this study are as follows: Story retelling to parents using listening picture books lead to statistically significant differences in young children's listening ability and story comprehension ability (p<.001). It suggests the story retelling to parents using listen picture books have positive effects on the young children's listening ability and story comprehension ability.

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