발성사고법을 활용한 고등학생의 비유 생성 과정 분석

In this study, we investigated high school students’ analogy generating processes using the think-aloud method. Twelve high school students in Seoul participated in this study. The students were asked to generate analogies on ionic bonding and were also interviewed after their activities. Their activities and interviews were recorded and videotaped. After classifying the analogy generating processes into the three stages-encoding, exploring sources, and mapping, several process components were identified. The analyses of the results indicated that they checked the target concept given and selected one for a salient attribute among many attributes of the target concept at the stage of encoding. After selecting the salient attribute, they translated the salient attribute that is a scientific term into an everyday term, which is named as ‘extracting salient similarities.’ At the stage of exploring sources, they chose the sources based on salient similarities and chose the final source through circular processes, which included the process components of ‘evaluating the sources’ and ‘discarding the sources.’ At the final stage, they added the attributes to analogs and mapping them to the attributes of the target concept, which is named as ‘mapping shared attributes.’ There were some cases that ‘mapping shared attributes’ appeared after they specified the situation of analogs or assumed new situation, which is named as ‘specifying the situations.’ Some students recognized unshared attributes in their analogs.