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The Associations between Early Maternal Language Use and School Readiness among Young Children of Asian and Hispanic Immigrant Mothers in the United States

아시아계와 남미계 미국인 이민자 엄마의 언어 사용과 학령 전 아동의 학교준비도 사이의 관계

  • 이래혁 (순천향대학교 향설나눔대학)
  • Received : 2018.08.23
  • Accepted : 2018.11.08
  • Published : 2018.11.28
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Abstract

This study examined how early maternal language use was associated with school readiness at kindergarten entry among children of Asian or Hispanic immigrant mothers in the United States. Using a nationally representative sample from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B; $N{\approx}1,500$), this study estimates multivariate regression models to address each research question. This study finds generally advantages of maternal use of English and bilingualism for children's expressive language in both Asian and Hispanic groups and for children's pro-social behavior in the Asian group. It also finds that longer residency in the U.S. is associated with higher levels of approaches to learning for children of bilingual Asian mothers and lower levels of behavior problems for children of bilingual Hispanic mothers. Based on the findings, social work implications for the healthy development of young children of immigrants were discussed.

본 연구는 아시아계와 남미계 미국인 이민자 엄마의 언어 사용과 학령 전 아동의 학교준비도 사이의 관계를 규명하려는 목적으로 수행되었다. 미국 교육부에서 구축한 전국적 대표성을 지니는 출생 코호트 자료에서 이민자 엄마의 자녀 약 1,500명을 대상으로 중다회귀분석 방법을 활용하여 분석을 수행한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 아시아계와 남미계 집단 모두에게서 이민자 엄마가 모국어를 사용하는 경우보다 영어만 사용하거나 영어와 모국어를 함께 사용하는 경우에 자녀의 표현적 언어 발달에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 아시아계 이민자 엄마가 모국어를 사용하는 경우보다 영어만 사용하거나 영어와 모국어를 함께 사용하는 경우 자녀의 친사회적 행동에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 셋째, 영어와 모국어를 함께 사용하는 이민자 엄마의 미국 내 거주기간이 길수록 자녀의 학습 접근과 행동 발달에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과를 토대로 이민자 가정의 학령 전 아동의 발달을 도울 수 있는 개입 방안에 대해서 논의하였다.

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Table 1. Maternal Language Use and Cognitive Development among Children of Asian and Hispanic Immigrant Mothers

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Table 2. Maternal Language Use and Socio-emotional Development among Children of Asian and Hispanic Immigrant Mothers

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