The present study investigates the effects of teaching activity-based integrative reading and writing on the amelioration of written language in the elementary school classroom. This study was conducted during the first semester in 2003. The subjects were 160, 6th year elementary school students. They were divided into two groups, control and experimental. Both the control group and the experimental group were composed of 80 students each. Each group was divided into three levels: high, intermediate, and low, on the basis of a diagnostic evaluation. All the subjects of the experimental group were integratively taught reading and writing of the English alphabet, words, phrases, sentences, and context, according to their level. All the subjects of the control group were discretely taught reading and writing according to their curriculum and level. They were also given a questionnaire of affective and psychomotor domains. Statistical analyses were performed to determine: (a) the difference of the control and experimental groups, (b) the difference between the control and experimental groups, (c) the difference of their level (high, intermediate, and low) of the control and experimental groups on reading and writing in the pre- and post- achievement tests, and (d) the difference of the level of the control and experimental groups on the affective and psychomotor domains such as interest, self-confidence, understanding, participation, and motivation of reading and writing in the pre- and post- achievement tests. The results of this study reveal that significantly higher scores on the written language were obtained in the experimental group. The difference between the control group and the experimental group was not significant at the beginning of the term. However, the difference was significant at the end of the term. It was also found that in the experimental group, interest was improved at the intermediate level. Self-confidence and understanding were improved at the intermediate and low levels, and participation was improved at the low level. It is recommended that researchers and teachers develop integrative materials of reading and writing more widely according to the level.

국내 학문목적 한국어 학습자의 비율이 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 그러나 실질적으로 학문 습득에 필요한 읽기와 쓰기의 중요도에 대한 학습자의 인식수준은 상대적으로 낮다. 그 가운데 특히 한국어 교실 수업에서 이루어지는 쓰기 교수는 문법 항목과 쓰기 전 활동에 치중되어 있어 총체적인 쓰기 학습 방안 마련이 시급하다. 따라서 본고에서는 읽기와 쓰기 학습의 중요성을 환기하고 교실 수업의 한계를 극복하기 위한 자발적인 학습 방안을 마련하고자 다독 후행 활동으로서의 독서일지 쓰기에 주목하였다. 본고는 효과적인 쓰기 학습 방법의 하나로 제안되어 왔던 다독과 다독 후행 활동의 하나인 독서일지 쓰기가 쓰기 능력에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 효과를 검증하고 그 적용 가능성을 모색하는 데에 목적이 있다.