• 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.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.103-117
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• 2015

Family environment plays a significant role in adolescent development. Multicultural adolescents in Korea are brought up in a distinctive family environment, where they get to experience two different cultures within their families. Thus, it is important to examine how internal characteristics of the family environment in multicultural families and interactions between family members influence adolescents. The aim of the current study was to examine structural relationships among Southeast Asian mothers' and Korean fathers' bilingual socialization, adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture, and mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction. Specifically, the following two questions were addressed in this study: 1) Does bilingual socialization of each parent affect adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture? 2) Does children's attitude toward mothers' native culture affect mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction? To answer these questions, the survey data from the '2012 Nationwide Survey of Multicultural Families' was analysed, using SEM. The sample consisted of 318 multicultural adolescents (aged 9-17) living with Korean fathers and immigrant mothers from Southeast Asia. The main findings were as follows. First, Korean fathers' bilingual socialization had a positive effect on immigrant mothers' bilingual socialization. The path from Korean fathers' bilingual socialization to adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture was significantly mediated by immigrant mothers' bilingual socialization. Second, adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture had a positive effect on mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction. Results suggest that Korean fathers' bilingual socialization is an important factor for bilingual socialization of multicultural adolescents. It is also worth noting that each parent's bilingual socialization helps multicultural adolescents to form a positive identity as a member of multicultural families.

• 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.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.365-388
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 다문화가정 어머니의 한국어 의사소통 능력과 이중언어문화 노출정도가 어머니의 양육참여 활동에는 어떠한 영향을 미치며, 이는 궁극적으로 아동의 발달산물에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 경기도 거주 결혼이주여성 459명과 그들의 초등학교 5-6학년 자녀 459명을 쌍체수집한 경기교육복지패널 1차년도(2011) 자료를 원자료로 하여 공변량구조분석을 수행했다. 분석결과 어머니의 한국어 구사가 원활하고, 자녀가 어머니 나라의 문화와 언어에 보다 많이 노출되었을 때 어머니의 양육참여가 보다 적극적으로 이루어지고, 이는 궁극적으로 아동의 발달산물에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 다문화가정 어머니를 대상으로 한 한국어지원서비스가 단순히 취업이나 한국사회 적응에서 필요한 기술일 뿐 아니라 양육참여에도 매우 중요함을 보여주었다. 또한 이중언어 문화환경이 더 이상 다문화가정 자녀들의 적응에 위험요소가 아니며 오히려 발달에 간접적으로 기여하는 자원으로 간주할 필요가 있음을 시사한다.

• 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.

• 한국학교수학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.61-82
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• 2015

다문화권 학생인 중국인 국제학생 자오밍의 대학 수학수업에서 학습의 방해요소가 무엇인지 그리고 그 방해요소를 극복하도록 어떻게 도울 수 있는지를 정성적 연구방법을 바탕으로 조사하였다. 예비교사를 위해 2014년 2학기에 개설된 교수 학습을 위한 강좌에서 학습조력자에 의해 자오밍의 활동이 관찰되었고 학습과정의 자료들이 수집되었다. 방해요소로는 한국어 문장이해력 부족, 한국어수학어휘력 부족, 수학개념이해력 부족, 공학도구충실도의 부족으로 나타났고, 이를 극복하기 위해서 이중언어 효과, 자기주도적 시각화표상활동, 반복활동, 조별활동을 통해 학습의 성취가 이루어졌다. 이러한 자오밍의 학습의 성취는 학습조력자의 역할에 의해 가능했다고 볼 수 있는데 일반적으로 대학에서 영어가 기본적으로 제공되고 있지만 자국어로 학습할 수 있는 이중언어강화 환경구성이 매우 중요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.41-56
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• 2007

This paper, drawing on various secondary sources related to bilingualism and bilingual education, proposes a semi-CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) model as an initial option for Korea's ELT instruction at a primary level, with a subsequent application to a secondary level in mind. It is reported that the current pedagogy focused on early English education and communicative language teaching does not meet the needs of students' EFL proficiency. The main reasons for this are considered to lie in the social and educational environment which impedes EFL students' meaningful and authentic communication in target language. Thus, by exploring a conceptual approach to such a problem, this paper suggests a paradigm of integrating content and language for a reasonable solution.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.181-195
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• 2004

The purpose of the study was to explore the degree of children's access to media and the relationship between the use of media and language development of Korean-Chinese bilingual children in Yanji, China. Questionnaires were answered by 258 4th graders and their parents. The results showed that the children had an access to a variety of media. The children's use of language(Korean/ Chinese) differed to the type of media： they had more access to Korean language in the use of newspapers/magazines, books, and radio, and to Chinese language in the use of computer. They had comparatively a balanced access to Korean/chinese language in the use of TV. Stepwise regression analyses revealed that the children's access to Chinese language in the use of media, proficiency of a parent's Chinese language, and a parent's affection were related to proficiency of the children's Chinese language. Implications are derived from the use of media in development of bilingualism.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지역사회생활과학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 자료집
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• pp.210-211
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• 2005

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2010

The present study aims to investigate neural activations according to the level of code switching in English proficient bilinguals and to find the relationship between the performance of language switching and proficiency level using ERPs (event-related potentials). First, when comparing high-proficient (HP) with low-proficient (LP) bilingual performance in a native language environment, the activation level of N2 was observed to be higher in the HP group than in the LP group, but only under two conditions: 1) the language switching (between-language) condition known as indexing attention of code switching and 2) the inhibition of current language for L1. Another effect of N400 can be shown in both groups only in the language non-switching (within-language) condition. This effect suggests that both groups completed the semantic acceptability task well in their native language environment without the burden of language switching, irrespective of high or low performance. The latencies of N400 are only about 100ms earlier in the HP group than in the LP group. This difference can be interpreted as facilitation of the given task. These results suggest that HP showed the differential activation in inhibitory system for L1 in switching condition of L1-to-L2 to be contrary to inactivation of inhibitory system for the LP group. Despite the absence of an N400 effect at the given task in both groups, differential latencies between the peaks were attributed to the differences of efficiency in semantic processing.