• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.699-710
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• 2007

The study purposes to explore the effects of individual characteristics and home environments of children on their bilingual language aquisition, that is, to examine whether their English language competency is different from their Korean language competency depending on those variables. Thus English or Korean language competency of children who had had early exposure in English learning were studied in terms of child's individual characteristics such as age, gender, exposure period to English, intelligence, and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries, and home environments such as parental age, educational level, income level, their perceived English competency, their perceived significance of English and Korean language, and the frequency of using English at home. 72 children who went to English kindergarten were tested with Peabody Pictures Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) in Korean version and in English version respectively. The results show that child's intelligence and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their Korean language competency. Also child's age, exposure period to English and experiences of visiting English-speaking countries influence their English language competency. Moreover their mother's educational background, father's English fluency, mothers' English fluency, and the frequency of using English at home influence child's English language competency, whereas any variables did not influence child's Korean language competency. Accordingly, child's English and Korean language competencies are related to each other.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.74-89
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• 1995

본 연구는 DSM-IV에 의해 선택적 함구증으로 진단된 23명의 아동들을 대상으로 임상적인 특성(인구학적 특성, 임상경과, 발달력, 성격특성, 가족력, 지능지수, 학업성취도), 치료방법 및 기간, 치료경과등을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1) 대상군의 남녀 비율은 1 : 4.8로 여아에서 높았으며 발병시 평균연령을 3세 4개월, 치료시작의 평균연령은 7세 7개월이었다. 2) 주산기의 문제를 가지고 있었던 아동은 22%였으며 언어발달이 지연되었던 아동은 26%였다. 3세 이전에 주 양육자와의 분리경험이 있던 아동은 26%, 3세 이전에 외상이나 심리적 충격을 입었던 아동은 26%였다. 유뇨증의 병력은 30%에서, 유분증의 병력은 4%에서 있었다. 3) 어머니의 공생적인(symbiotic relationship) 관계에 있는 아동은 61%였고 가정내에서 아버지보다 어머니의 영향력이 우세한 경우는 65%였다. 부모중 정신병리나 알콜/약물중독의 문제를 가지고 있는 경우는 39%였다. 과거력상 신체적인 학대를 받았던 아동은 26%였다. 4) 환아들의 성격특성중 가장 많은 것은 수줍음(100%)이었고 그 다음으로는 불안해 한다(83%), 고집이 세다(83%), 아기 같고 의존적이다(65%), 화를 잘 낸다(52%), 조종하려고 한다(39%) 순으로 많았다. 5) 지능검사를 실시한 16명 아동의 평균 지능지수는 88.3이었고 이중 정신지체의 기준은 IQ 69 이하의 아동이 7명, 70 이상인 아동아 9명이었다. 6) 치료방법중 놀이치료를 받은 아동이 65%로 가장 많았으며 약물치료를 받은 아동은 21%, 행동치료를 받은 아동은 8%, 한 가지 이상의 방법을 복합하여 치료받은 아동은 12%였다. 7) 치료종료시 최우수 평가를 받은 아동은 8.6% 였고 우수의 평가를 받은 아동은 30.4% 양호의 평가를 받은 아동은 52%, 불량의 평가를 받은 아동은 8.7%였다. 추적도사의 최우수의 평가를 받은 아동은 21.7%였고 우수는 13%, 양호는 21.7%, 불량은 34.8% 였다. 치료성과는 유의미한 상관관계를 보이는 변수는 지능지수로 나타났다. 8) 대상군을 공생형 함구증(symbiotic mutism), 언어공포성 함구증(speech phobic mutism), 반응성 함구증(reactive mutism), 수동-공격성 함구증(passive aggressive mutism)으로 분류하였을때 각각 65%, 8.6%, 12%, 30%였다. 지능지수에 따라 정신지체로 분류된 7명과 정상지능군에 속하는 9명을 비교적 언어발달 및 성격특성, 가족역동, 치료성과 등에서 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2005

This study was carried out to reveal Hangul acquisition processes in Korean-Chinese children who grow in a horizontal bilingual environment. In this experiment Grapheme substitution/deletion tasks and sensible/non-sensible Kulja reading tasks were administered to 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-old Korean-Chinese children growing up in a bilingual environment. Results were that Korean-Chinese children showed similar patterns of Hangul acquisition processes to Korean children but acquired grapheme-phoneme(G-P) correspondence earlier than Korean children. Hangul acquisition rates were 41.7%, 45.7%, 53% and 92.7% at age 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. Both Korean-Chinese and Korean children showed higher sensitivity for the final consonant than for the initial and middle consonants. Correlation between phoneme perception and reading was only significant among 6-year-olds in non-sensible Kulja reading tasks. Training in transforming ideographic Chinese to a phonetic system could effect early acquisition of G-P correspondence in Korean-Chinese children.

• 재활치료과학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.67-78
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• 2019

목적 : 본 연구에서는 말소리장애 아동과 일반 아동을 대상으로 어휘인출 시 단순 손동작(hand tapping)을 반복하게 하는 것이 조음정확도와 유창성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 알아보았다. 손동작을 반복하면서 어휘를 산출하는 것은 주의를 분산시키는 이중과제에 해당하기 때문에, 주의력 저하가 보고된 말소리장애 아동의 경우 일반 아동과 다른 행동 양상을 보이는지를 파악하고자 하였다. 연구방법 : 4, 5, 6세의 말소리장애 아동 15명과 일반 아동 15명이 본 연구에 참여하였다. 조음복잡성이 높은 어휘와 낮은 어휘를 각각 15개씩, 총 30개를 선정하여, 이에 대한 대면이름대기 과제를 실시하였다. 첫 번째 실험조건에서는 단순 손동작을 반복하지 않고, 두 번째 실험조건에서는 손바닥으로 책상을 두드리면서 그림 이름을 말하도록 하였다. 대상자의 반응에 대해 자음정확도, 비유창성 정도, 정확성 변화와 유창성 변화의 상관관계를 측정하여, 두 실험조건에 따른 두 집단 간 수행력을 비교하였다. 결과 : 첫째, 말소리장애 집단과 일반 집단 모두 손동작 반복 과제와 손동작 비반복 과제 간 자음정확도에는 유의한 차이가 없었다. 둘째, 일반 집단은 손동작 반복 과제에서 비유창성이 유의하게 증가하였으나, 말소리장애 집단은 차이가 없었다. 셋째 손동작 반복에 따른 자음정확도 변화와 비유창성 변화는 일반집단의 경우 유의한 양의 상관관계가 있었으나 말소리장애 집단은 아무런 상관을 보이지 않았다. 결론 : 본 연구에서 주의력 분산을 위해 사용한 단순 손동작 반복은 결과적으로 집단에 따라 대상자의 목표행동에 방해가 될 수도, 혹은 그 반대로 도움이 될 수도 있었다. 어휘인출에 대한 손동작 반복의 영향이 두 집단 간 다른 양상으로 나타난 만큼 이에 대한 심층적 논의가 필요할 것이다.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.543-556
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• 2021

This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence multicultural adolescents' proficiency in their mother's native language, or their immigrant mother's native language. A hierarchical regression analysis was performed on data from the survey answered by 1,028 multicultural adolescents aged 15 years old and whose mothers were from foreign countries for the 6th Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study(MAPS) conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) in 2016. The main results are as follows. First, multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency was generally low and significant differences were observed according to their gender, parents' educational level, household income, and mother's native country. More specifically, a higher proficiency in minority language was found for girls than boys, adolescents with a higher parental educational level, adolescents with a higher income, and adolescents whose mothers were from Japan or China, compared with those from the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam. Second, a significant positive correlation was observed between multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency and 1) foreign culture acceptance, 2) parent's educational support, and 3) the use of the minority language at home. Third, foreign culture acceptance, parents' educational support, and the use of the minority language at home were predictors of multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency. The study is meaningful in that it examined multicultural adolescents' minority language proficiency, elucidating their bilingual development, whereas previous studies have only focused on their proficiency in Korean, which is the majority language.

• 한국어교육
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.165-196
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• 2018

This study examined the language acquisition of children from Chinese families in Korea under the bilingual background of Korean and Chinese, focusing on pronunciation and vocabulary. First, in the analysis of pronunciation acquisition, children correctly realized the lenition, aspirated sound, glottalization, palatalization, nasalization, and liquidization while the realization of pronunciation rules for unfamiliar words was low. There were also errors caused when the application principles of pronunciation were not accurately understood or they were not partially acquired. Second, in the analysis of vocabulary acquisition, the acquisition of receptive vocabulary was in the order of verb, noun, and adjective while they clearly understood vocabulary used in the actual relationships with school, family, and peers. In the acquisition of productive vocabulary, they showed the 'meaning-centered principle' of learning the meaning of vocabulary first and then learning its form afterwards. The amount of study and exposure to Korean language had effects on the improvement of vocabulary. Even though this study focused on the errors and characteristics in the acquisition process of Korean pronunciation and vocabulary for children from Chinese families in Korea, it could not clearly find out which one would have greater effects on the acquisition of Korean language. However, lots of exchanges and experiences with surrounding environment and peer group had great effects on the language acquisition and language acquisition transfer of children.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.78-83
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• 2007

The purpose of present study was to investigate the characteristics of disfluency between the Korean-English bilingual and Korean monolingual children, matched by their chronological age with the bilingual children. Twenty-eight children, 14 bilingual children and 14 monolingual children participated in this study. The experimental tasks consisted of the play situation and the task situation. The conclusion is (a) The score of total disfluency of the bilingual was significantly higher than that of the monolingual. The score of normal disfluency of the bilingual was significantly higher than that of the monolingual. The most frequent type is Interjection in both groups. All shows higher score in the task situation than the play situation. The bilingual children have quantitative and qualitative differences in disfluency score and types from the monolingual. (b) The bilingual were divided into two groups such as 6 Korean-dominant bilingual and 8 English-dominant bilingual. All shows more disfluency in their non-dominant language. The most frequent type is Interjection in both groups. (c) The higher the chronological age and the expressive language test score is, the lower the disfluency score is. The earlier the exposure age to the 2nd language is, the higher the disfluency score is. There is no correlation between resident month at foreign country and the disfluency.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2006

This study investigated whether there are differences between Korean-English bilingual and Korean monolingual children on phonological awareness skills. Participants were 11 Korean-English bilingual children and 12 Korean monolingual children. The children's ages ranged between 6 and 7 years. The results were as follows. First, the bilingual children significantly outperformed monolingual children on overall phonological awareness tasks. The bilinguals performed significantly higher than monolinguals on all three types of phonological awareness tasks (segmentation, deletion, and blending). Second, there was a significant difference between the groups with respect to phonological units of the tasks. The bilinguals performed significantly better than monolinguals on the phonemic unit tasks, but two groups did not differ significantly on syllabic unit tasks. There was an interaction effect between unit size(syllables and phonemes) and group (bilinguals and monolinguals). Third, there were correlations for both bilingual and monolingual children between overall phonological awareness skills and word recognition skills.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2007

The aim of this study was to investigate the pitch and formant characteristics of vowels produced by monolingual and bilingual children. We collected sustained phonation of single vowels, /a/, /i/, /u/, from children aged 6 through 10 and compared their acoustic characteristics, fo, F1, F2. Results showed a significant difference between the groups in fo and F1 in the sustained phonation /a/, but not in F2. In the sustained phonation /i/, F2 revealed a significant difference but fo and F1 showed no significant difference. The F2 showed a significant difference in the sustained phonation /u/, but fo and F1 revealed no significant difference between the groups. It is needed to study further on the acoustic characteristics of bilingual children so that we can make a proper language intervention strategy for them.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.73-87
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• 2007

The aim of this study was to examine the articulation characteristics of preschool children in the bilingual or monolingual environment. Subjects included 23 children of 4 to 6 years old in the bilingual environment, and 19 children of monolingual environment. Their speech was evaluated in terms of articulation correctness and intelligibility by the author and a speech therapist. Results showed as the following: First, there were some significant differences between bilingual and monolingual children in the percentage of consonants correctly articulated. But there was no significant difference between their language environment or ages in the percentage of vowels correctly articulated. Second, there were some significant differences between the bilingual and monolingual children in the intelligibility of word articulation. Also, there were some significant differences between the two language groups in the sentence intelligibility. There was a high positive correlation between the word and sentence intelligibility.