RESEARCH ON CHILDREN'S COGNITION DEVELOPMENT CONCERNING READING OF EXPOSITORY TEXT, AND EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING MATERIAL BASED ON THE FOREGOING AT THE TIME OF PRIMARY SCHOOL ENTRY

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Accomplishments as a result of research conducted during years 2001 and 2002 are as follows:1. Survey has been made on strategy of explanation applied in composition of expository text by the university students. Such results were applied as indicators to grasp various phases of cognition development of school children concerning reading-understanding of expository tests.2. A survey has also been made on development structure of expository text material of Japanese language textbooks during the post-War period to the present. As a result, two text material with distinctive features were discovered, concerning inducing school children into expository text material. These two are; "Dobutsu-en (Zoo)", Tokyo Shoseki, 1952~1976, and "Norimono (Vehicles)", Mitsumura Tosho, 1958~1976.3. In search of the actual conditions in guidance over expository texts at the time of primary school entry, following two points were clarified:(1) Cases were rather rare where expository text material at the time of primary school entry are made object of study by the teachers.(2) Teachers do not accept expository text material at the time of primary school entry as "genuine expository texts", but utilize them in guidance of reciting, sentence construction, and induction from picture book to reading material which are substantially sentences.4. Conducted a survey on development structure of expository texts of "kinda Book", a preschool children's magazine. As a result, presence of various stereotypes are noted in the opening part not different from those expository text material used by primary schools. Such fact suggests importance to have the readers participate in the texts when conducting explanations.