| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 99 === The pilot study aims to explore young children‘s spontaneous responses to a sad-ending story, Tadpole’s Promise. Fifteen participants (eight females and seven males) aged eight to ten, chosen through the random sampling method, were recruited in this study. Two major instruments were adopted in this study: storytelling, and group-interview. All 15 participants’ responses toward the story and their interpretations were transcribed and analyzed for their understanding and attitude.
There were three major findings from this study. First, young children have a stereo-typical expectation that every story should end with a good ending. Second, although love issues are not included in the elementary school education in Taiwan, young participants have a positive expectation toward love and marriage, and have a basic-clear understanding about the social patterns of falling in love and getting married. Third, different voices from two single-parent children prove that young children’s concepts were influenced greatly by their parents’ marital status and the public media.
It is suggested that teachers could incorporate reader-response theory into a student-centered storytelling program and utilized post-modern stories to challenge students’ critical thinking. Further, the students’ creative responses can be elicited so to improve readers’ engagement in reading.
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