Date of Award:
5-1967
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Child Development
Committee Chair(s)
Don C. Carter
Committee
Don C. Carter
Committee
Carroll Lambert
Committee
Jay Schvaneveldt
Committee
Klara Ingold
Abstract
A research experiment was performed in the Utah State University Child Development Laboratory on a group of pre-school children consisting of ten boys and ten girls between the ages of three and four years in an attempt to discover that teaching method which will best sustain a child's interest while teaching a foreign language in an experimental situation.
The procedure involved the evaluation of three different methods. 1) German conversation in a group utilizing audio-visual aids, 2) Group singing of a German song, and 3) Telling a story in German using a flannel board with illustrations. These three methods were performed three times each over a five-week period.
The results showed that there was not statistically a significant difference. The findings did show, however, that the flannel-board story sustained the interest of the group best, next the singing of a German song and the least effective was conversation in German.
The results did indicate that the interest of the children dropped considerably from the first to the third time that the conversation method was performed. The interest of the children increased considerably from the first to the third time that the singing of a German Bong was performed. The interest of the children appeared to stay about the same over the three times that the flannel-board story was performed.
Femininity and masculinity appear to influence the responses of children to a language-learning situation. That method which will best sustain children's interest in a language-learning situation appears to be dependent on where the children are in their familiarity with the language.
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Recommended Citation
Geddes, Gordon, "Developmental Learning of Concepts of the Pre-School Child" (1967). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2433.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2433
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