TV광고를 활용한 마인드맵 프로그램이 정신지체아동의 어휘력에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Mind map strategy may be one language teaching method to expand thought which is related with language development. The children with mental retardation have generally lots of problems in language development. Vocabulary ability is an important developmental stage to learn social language fluently. The purpose of this study was to illustrate the effects of the mind map strategy with TV advertisement to develop vocabulary ability for the children with mental retardation. Two mentally retarded children participated in this study. Twenty four target vocabularies which were selected from TV advertisement were applied for this study. Pre- and post-test were utilized to compare the effects of the mind map strategy with TV advertisement to develop vocabulary ability. The results of this study were that: (a) the mind map strategy with TV advertisement was effective to develop receptive vocabularies for children with mental retardation; and (b) the mind map strategy with TV advertisement was effective to develop expressive vocabularies for children with mental retardation. In the part of speech, this strategy was most influenced to an adjective rather than noun and verb. Therefore, this study concluded that the mind map strategy with TV advertisement was effective to develop receptive and expressive vocabularies for children with mental retardation.