The present study was designed to designed to investigte the effects of motoric imagery in presclool children`s loaming. The materials consisted of twenty sentences. The subjects of this study were forty-eight children randomy extracted from theree classes of kindergarten in Daegu.
The experimental groups formed 2×2 factorial design with imagery method (motoric or visual), presentation methods(verb lists or adjective lists) as the factors. The subjects learned sentence under either enacted instructions or visualized instructions of each sentence.
In the visualixation condition, subjects were instructed to form visual images each sentence immediately after it was spoken by the experiment. In the enactment condition, subjects were told to act out immediately each sentence after they repeated the sentence. The children were tested for immediate recall and for delayed recall three minutes.
The conclusions drawn form the study are as fellows :
1. There was a significant difference between the visual imagery and method imagery method of instruction on the retention of the sentences, bet for delayed fecall visual imagery was found to be more forgetable than motoric imagery.
2. Motoric processing proved to facilite sentence recall more than the visual processing.
3. There was significant difference between the verb lists and adjective lists on reation of the sentences,
4. The interaction between the imagery methods and representation methods were found to be significant.