마인드 맵 학습 전략이 학습장애아동의 어휘력에 미치는 효과

Abstract

The purpose of this was to compare the development of concept and meaning vocabularies for children with learning disabilities after applying mind map strategy. Two children with learning disabilities were participated for this study. The effects of the mind map learning strategy program to the enhancement of the vocabulary power of the children with learning disabilities are as follows. Firstly, it expanded the concept and meaning vocabulary of the children of learning disabilities by enlarging and directing the target vocabularies to branches and detailed branches according to the language domains. Secondly, it expanded vocabularies by stimulating the association power of the children with learning disabilities, and the order of numeral expansion of the vocabularies by the parts of speeches were noun, adjective and verb, while the order of percentage expansion of the vocabularies were adjective, noun and verb. Therefore, this study concluded that mind map learning strategy program is effective to make language life related to the real lives of children with learning disabilities and to have them experience more vocabularies.