This study was to explore how effective wordless picture book reading activities were in developing young children's fictional narratives. Subjects for this study were 40 five-year-old children attending two classes of S kindergarten located in Seoul. They comprised the experimental group of 20 children and the control group of 20 children. As the treatment for the experimental group, the researcher applied the wordless picture book reading activities to small groups of five children using active interactions. Twelve sessions had been carried out once or twice a week for nine weeks. Results of this study, it was found that the wordless picture book reading activities positively affected young children's structural development levels of fictional narratives, the emergence of structural components, the use of logically cohesive devices, the number of clauses. This suggests that the wordless picture book reading activities using teacher-child interactions would be one of effective ways of developing young children's fictional narratives.

본 연구의 목적은 글 없는 그림책 읽기 활동이 유아의 가상적 내러티브에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여, 서울시에 있는 S유치원 만 5세 유아 40명으로, 실험․통제집단 각 20명을 선정하였다. 연구방법은 9주 동안 실험집단의 유아들은 5명씩 소그룹으로 구성하여 9주 동안 총 12회의 글 없는 그림책 읽기활동을 실시하였으며, 통제집단은 도서영역에 글 없는 그림책만 비치해 주었다. 연구는 사전검사, 글 없는 그림책 읽기활동, 사후검사 순으로 이루어졌으며, 수집된 자료는 연구문제에 따라 카이검증, t검증의 방법으로 통계분석이 이루어졌다. 연구결과 글 없는 그림책 읽기 활동은 유아의 가상적 내러티브 구조발달 수준, 구성요소, 논리적 응집장치, 문장 수를 증가시키는 데 효과가 있었다. 따라서 유아와 교사간의 상호작용에 의한 글 없는 그림책 읽기 활동은 유아의 가상적 내러티브를 발달시킬 수 있는 효과적인 활동으로 적용될 수 있음을 시사해준다.

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