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Preliminary Research about Semantic Relations and Linguistic Features in Middle School Students' Writings about Phase Transitions of Water in Air

대기 중 물의 상태변화에 관한 중학생의 글에서 나타나는 의미관계 및 과학 언어적 특성에 관한 예비연구

  • Jung, Eun-Sook (Department of Earth science Education, College of Education, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Chan-Jong (Department of Earth science Education, College of Education, Seoul National University)
  • 정은숙 (서울대학교 사범대학 지구과학교육과) ;
  • 김찬종 (서울대학교 사범대학 지구과학교육과)
  • Received : 2010.03.10
  • Accepted : 2010.06.10
  • Published : 2010.06.30
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Abstract

Recently, scientific literacy means not only the acquisition of scientific knowledge but also the linguistic ability to participate in a scientific discourse community. Keeping this in mind, this study investigated middle school students' writings about phase transitions of water in air. Sixty seven students at 9th grade (age 15) students participated in this study and wrote two individual short texts. The result of text analysis can be summarized as follows: (1) students had problems with familiar scientific terms such as 'water vapor' and 'steam' as well as unfamiliar ones like 'dew point'. (2) Students described right semantic relations and at the same time wrong ones more in the idea formed from everyday experience than those from school instruction. (3) While students showed action and process centered writing in text about everyday phenomenon, they showed more preference for technical words and nouns in text about school science. This study suggest that students could develop linguistic ability of science from both spontaneous process based on experience and formal and theoretical learning; the former in forming various semantic relations, the latter in technical and abstract aspect of scientific writing.

본 연구는 과학적 소양은 과학적 지식의 획득과 과학적 담화에 참여할 수 있는 언어적 능력을 통하여 길러진다는 전제하에 대기 중의 물의 상태변화에 관한 학생 글에서 나타나는 의미관계와 과학 언어적 특징을 알아보았다. 중학교 3학년 학생 67명이 참여하여 일상생활에서 흔히 경험할 수 있는 현상과 학교과학교육에서 체계적으로 배우는 현상 에 관한 두 개의 서술형 문항에 대한 글을 작성하였다. 연구의 결과 학생들은 '이슬점' 같은 생소한 용어뿐만 아니라 '수증기', '김' 등과 같은 친숙한 용어에 대해서도 잘못된 의미관계를 형성하고 있었고, 학교과학 교육보다 일상의 경험에서 형성된 지식에서 옳은 의미관계와 잘못된 의미관계 모두 더 많이 나타났다. 일상의 과학적 현상에 대해서는 행위와 절차를 중심으로 한 서술 양상이, 학교 교육에 의해 접하게 된 현상에 대해서는 전문용어와 명사구의 사용 양상이 보였다. 본 연구를 통하여 경험에 기초한 자발적 과정은 풍부한 의미관계 형성에, 형식적이고 이론적인 과정은 명사화를 중심으로 한 전문적이고 추상적인 서술의 측면에서 과학적 언어 능력 발달에 기여함을 알 수 있었다.

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