The Effect of Phonics and Story Telling on the improvement of Reading skills for Elementary School Students

Lee, Dong Han; Lee, Se Jong

Article

Journal of English Teaching through Movies and Media 2001;2(2):81-115.
Published online December 30, 2001.

The Effect of Phonics and Story Telling on the improvement of Reading skills for Elementary School Students

Dong Han Lee, Se Jong Lee

Phonics와 Story-Telling이 초등학생의 읽기능력 향상에 미치는 효과

이동한, 이세종

Abstract

This study examines the effects of Phonics and the Story-Telling on reading skills of elementary school learners of English. The subjects are two classes of sixth graders. One group, an experimental group, receives phonics-based lessons as their form of instruction. The other group, a comparison group, receives lessons based on the Story-Telling. Two research questions are posed: 1) What are the differences in the reading skills of the experimental group and the comparison group? 2) Does the level of proficiency make a difference in the rate of the improvement of reading skills? The results show some increases in the improvement of reading skill for the experimental group compared with the comparison group. Moreover, it is found that there is a difference in the improvement of reading skills in the proficiency levels.