이 논문의 목적은 예이츠의 「초등학생들 사이에서 Among School Children」, 특히 이 시의 마지막 행 “어떻게 우리가 춤과 춤꾼을 구별할 수 있겠는가”를 메를로-퐁티의 현상학적 지각의 개념을 통해 접근함으로써 또 다른 읽기의 가능성을 탐색하는 것이다. 메를로-퐁티가 내세우는 지각은 절대적 내재성이나 외재성으로 작동하기 보다 세계에 대한 ‘신체적 현존’으로 이해된다. 명징하고 통일된 주관과 지각 대상의 구분을 거부하는 신체적 현존을 통한 경험은 세계와 대상을 끊임없이 ‘태동하는 상태’에 있는 것으로 파악한다. 예이츠 시의 핵심을 지속적인 자기갱신과 변화로 정의하면서, 변화에 대한 개방성을 특징으로 하는 예이츠 시가 어떻게 메를로 퐁티의 현상학적 지각 개념을 통해 잘 포착될 수 있는지 살펴본다.

The study aims to examine whether teaching English through multiple intelligences can suggest one of the solutions for underachievers to facilitate their English learning and restore their learning attitudes. To explore this, the study investigated two research questions: (a) What are the effects of English instruction using multiple intelligences and stories on underachievers’ reading abilities? and (b) How English instruction using multiple intelligences and stories influences on their learning attitudes? The participants of the study were seven fifth-grade underachievers in one elementary school in Seoul. They were first tested what their strong intelligences are and engaged in customized activities based on their multiple intelligences test results during the experiment English classes. The data collected include the read-aloud test, the reading comprehension test, the affective test, students’ learning log and the interview of students and teachers, and these were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the study showed that English instruction using multiple intelligences and stories had statistical significance in increasing underachievers’ reading abilities and changing their learning attitudes positively. This study is valuable in that it strongly calls for the need to consider multiple intelligences and provide customized activities for underachievers to facilitate their English learning and restore their learning attitudes.

This study investigated the effects of different gloss locations in extensive reading readers on English reading abilities of elementary students. It examined four groups of sixth graders in an elementary school and an extensive reading class was conducted over sixteen weeks. The four groups were given graded readers with four different types of glosses, such as non-gloss, marginal gloss, footnote gloss, and endnote gloss. To verify the effects of this experiment, pre- and post-reading ability test for the cognitive domain and pre- and post-questionnaire for the affective domain were administered to see if there were any achievement in reading ability and affective domain. The findings were as follows: (1) The four groups showed improvement in the reading ability tests. This result indicates that extensive reading was effective in improving students' reading ability; (2) The footnote gloss group showed the greatest change. This result indicates that footnote glosses influenced the most in improving students' reading ability; (3) All the groups showed positive results in the affective domain including attitude, self-confidence, interest, expectation, and value. In conclusion, extensive reading made a positive effect on all four groups and footnote glosses proved to be the most effective in both cognitive and affective domain.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between prosody and reading comprehension of elementary school students in Korea. To achieve the purpose of the study, 114 fifth and sixth graders were selected from three schools of Seoul city and Gyeonggi province, and their prosody, word recognition and comprehension were assessed. In order to measure their prosody, students were asked to read a reading text orally for one minute, and the teacher checked their reading rate, decoding accuracy, and prosody. Students’ prosody was measured through Clay and Imlach’s (1971) method. The results of this study showed that while most students gained higher score in word recognition and reading rate, their prosodic features was found comparatively weak. It also revealed a correlation between the three sub-categories of prosody and reading comprehension. Based on the results of this study, it could be concluded that prosodic reading features of Korean EFL students have co-relations with comprehension, even if their prosodic feature is weak. Finally some ideas for enhancing prosody in L2 students’ reading instruction were suggested.

The purpose of present study was to explore the reading fluency of elemenatary school students in Korea. To achieve the purpose of this study, 150 sixth grade students were selected from two schools of Gyeonggi province and their reading fluency was evaluated. Assessment of reading fluency was administered as follows: students were asked to read orally a reading text for one minute, which was developed for this study and the teacher checked their reading performance according to assessment criteria developed by Zutell and Rasinski (1991). Reading fluency dealt with four subcategories: decoding accuracy, reading rate per a minute (WCPM), expression, and comprehension. Mean score at each subcategory and its aspect were analyzed, expression element were compared between the lower and higher group, and finally co-relation between reading fluency and comprehension were examined. The results showed that while most students gained higher score in decoding accuracy or reading rate, their expression was lower. Among four sub-categories of expression, i.e. expression and volume, phrasing, smoothness, and reading rate, score of expression and volume was the lowest. Most students read text with little expression or enthusiasm in their voice. On the basis of the result, some ideas for teaching fluency were suggested.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of different types of practice on badminton skill in elementary school student during practice with observation learning, repeated reading and mixed practice combining observation learning and repeated reading. Methods: Thirty-six 5th grade male elementary students participated and were randomly assigned into four different groups; control, observation learning(OL), repeated reading(RR), and mixed model(MD). Before performing the striking skill, they observed the badminton expert’s performance three times in real time. They were asked to peform high clear striking as a badminton skill 20 times at pre-test, practice, retention(RT) and delayed retention(DR). During intervention, control group watched video clips not related badminton, OL was asked to watch the video containing the expert performance in saggital view, RR was required to read the customized reading material, and MD watched the expert’s video and read the reading material. Results: There was significant difference in performance score between pre-test, RT, DR in MD. Conclusion: The current results suggest that MD seems more effective practice to learn badminton skill for male elementary school student.

본 연구는 읽기기술 향상 프로그램이 초등학생의 자기 주도적 학습능력과 학업성취도에 미치는 효과를 검증하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 읽기기술에 대한 선행 연구결과와 학습기술 검사에 포함된 읽기기술 구성요소를 검토하여 공통요소를 토대로 5개의 읽기기술 구성요소를 선정하였다. 이러한 구성요소를 바탕으로 효과적인 읽기기술을 습득하기 위해 읽기의 6단계를 설정하여 초등학교 고학년의 자기 주도적 학습능력과 학업성취도 향상을 위한 11회기의 읽기기술 향상 프로그램을 구안하였다. 본 연구의 가설검증을 위해 초등학교 5학년 2개 학급을 임의로 선정하여 한 학급을 실험집단에, 다른 학급을 통제집단에 28명씩 배치하고 실험집단의 학생에게 프로그램을 실시하였다. 검사 도구는 김명철, 정태근(2001)이 초등학교 고학년 학생들에게 맞게 제작한 자기 주도적 학습능력 검사를 사용하였다. 자료처리는 다변량 공분산분석(MANCOVA)을 통해 통계적 분석을 했으며 양적 결과에 대한 해석을 보완하기 위하여 회기별 경험 보고서와 상담일지를 통한 상담자 관찰내용을 분석하였다. 그 결과 읽기기술 향상 프로그램은 초등학생의 자기 주도적 학습능력과 학업성취도 향상에 효과가 있었다.