Korean J Child Stud. 2001; 22(2): 301-313.

The Relationship between Children`s Literacy and Writing with a Computer

유아의 문식성과 컴퓨터로 쓰기와의 관계에 대한 연구

양연임,김영실

Yeon Yim Yang,Young Sil Kim

This study explored the linkage between literacy and writing with a computer in three-to five-year-old children. The 57 subjects were closely observed as they produced written language forms using the word processing program, Araeha Hangul. Stages of writing with a computer were developed to assess the children`s computer-writing. While writing with a computer, children invented letters, words, and sentences in an experimental and playful way. Children`s writing with computer improved with age. There was a positive correlation between writing with a computer and writing with a pencil. In this way, computer writing was found to be part of written language development.