A B S T R A C T
Effects of Integrated Music Activities
on Young Children's Musical Expression Ability
and Musical Attitude
by
Kim, Jin Hee
Major in Early Childhood Education
Graduate School of Education
Seoul National University of Education
Super...
A B S T R A C T
Effects of Integrated Music Activities
on Young Children's Musical Expression Ability
and Musical Attitude
by
Kim, Jin Hee
Major in Early Childhood Education
Graduate School of Education
Seoul National University of Education
Supervised by Professor : Kim, Chang Bok
The purpose of this study is examine the influence of Integrated Music Activity Experience on the Children's Musical Expression Ability and Musical Attitude. The following research questions were developed for the purpose of this study:
Question 1. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Musical Expression Ability?
1-1. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Singing?
1-2. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Playing an instrument?
1-3. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Expressing your body?
1-4. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Make Music?
Question 2. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Musical Attitude?
2-1. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Quest?
2-2. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's Expression?
2-3. How do Integrated Music Activity Experience affect Children's reflexion?
The participants of this study were a total of 50 five-years old children(25 children. from A kindergarten and 25 children from B kindergarten) in S city,
Seoul. The children from A kindergarten were assigned to an experimental group and the children from B kindergarten were assigned to a comparison group.
The experimental group carried out integrated music activity experience, and the comparison group engaged in a musical activities by Nuri curriculum in music. The experiment was performed in 16 sessions between September 5th to November 2th, 2 times a week, for 8 weeks.
In this study, to measure the musical expressive ability of young children, John W. Lorton and Bertha L. Wallet revised 89 questions in 89 areas of listening, singing, instrument handling, rhythm, Kim Kwangja (2004) used the musical expression ability test tool.
This is a musical expression ability measurement test tool composed of 20 items including song expressive ability ability 5 items, musical instrument expressive ability - ability 5 question, body expressing ability ability 5 question, music making expression ability ability 5 question. This test tool was designed to listen to the directive instructed by the teacher and to check the evaluation form of the observer who observed the reaction when the infant reacts.
In order to measure musical attitudes, Ahn Jae-shin and Han Ae-hyang (1999) measured the musical attitudes of children by using items related to musical attitude change in the content elements of emotion, expression(2006), which was revised and supplemented by the teacher 's observation checklist for the curriculum by Jung Hye-young (2006). This is a musical attitude measurement test tool composed of 5 search items, 15 expressions, and 8 appreciation items. Pre - test and post - test were administered to the infants of both groups before and after the experiment.
The data collected through this study were used for statistical analysis of SPSS V 20.0 to verify the effects of the experiment. The results of the pre - test of the experimental group and the comparative group were verified by the independent sample t and the post - test result was verified by the independent sample t because the homogeneity was secured between the two groups.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows :
First, the integrated musical activity experience showed the significant difference between the experimental group and the comparative group after analyzing the pre - test of musical expression ability and musical attitude of young children.
Second, after analyzing the post test results of musical expression ability and attitude by comparing two groups, it was found that experimental group was improved than comparative group.
Third, as a result of analyzing the sub - factors of musical expression ability such as singing, playing musical instruments, expressing body and making music, the experimental group and the comparison group showed significant difference and improved.
Fourth, as a result of analyzing the sub - factors such as search, expression, and impression pre - test, the experimental group and the comparative group showed significant differences.
As a result of this study, it can be seen that the integrated musical activity experience has an effect on musical expression ability and musical attitude of young children.
Therefore, in order to improve musical expression ability and musical attitude of young children, it is necessary to actively utilize integrated musical activity program related to this and to actively perform integrated music activities
Keywords : Integrated Music Activity Experience, Musical Attitude,
Musical Expression Ability,
* A thesis submitted to the committee of the Graduate School of Seoul National University of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of education in August 2018.