거시규칙을 적용한 중학생들의 텍스트 요약 실태 분석

Abstract

Readers recall the content of the text by eliciting the main ideas or summarizing the text in order to comprehend a text inclusively. This is to grasp the macrostructure, the concept that van Dijk suggested. The capability to find out the meaning of the text by applying macrostructure is one of the essential conditions needed to live a desirable language life. It is a school that is demanded to teach or train students focused on the whole of the text, itself and on lager structure in the aspect of meaning. This study is to investigate middle school students' actual level of summarizing or figuring out the text by analyzing the macrorules employed while students read, summarize, and produce a main idea of a variety of texts, a means and a goal of language education. As a result of experimenting the state of middle school students' summarizing process, this study shows that the macrorule found out from most students is nothing but a deletion rule that just reduces the amount of whole text. Even selection rule is often founded because of the lack of students' earnest participation into the task of summarization. Besides, there were few cases that apply generalization rule or construction rule, and what is more, the generalized information is produced by just a common method of the substitution. That explains students' summarizing ability isn't developed enough and they are short on finding out the meaning of text. Lastly, it is the evidence that organized, consistent instruction is required for the purpose of growing students as language users who are equipped with decent reading comprehension capability.