1,物語の学習過程における言語化経験が,物語の記憶と理解に対してどのような効果を及ぼすかを検討するために,5才児を被験者として実験を行った。2,物語を学習する時に,教示によって,一文毎に声に出して復唱する条件(外言群),同じく心の中で復唱する条件(内言群),ただ聞き取るだけの条件・(統制群)を設け,後続の3つの課題,すなわち,自由再生課題,質問応答課題,予測課題の成績を比較した。3,得られた結果について,課題別に,仮説との関連と統計的結果を整理し,TABLE12に示した。

The purpose of the present experiment is to examine the effects of external and ihternal verbalization on memofy and comprehension of a story among pre-school children. 51 five-year-old children were divided into 3 homogeneous groups (17 Ss each) on the basis of the score of "sentences" in the WPPSI. A short story was presented to all Ss three times. The first and the last presentations were the same for all Ss. The second presentation was as follows. For the external speech condition, each sentence of the story was first presented singly, and the S had to repeat the sentence aloud. For the internal speech condition, each sentence was first presented singly, and S was instructed to repeat the sentence in his mind without speaking out. For the control"condition, each sentence was merely presented with a pause of the same length as for the above two groups.