This study was aimed at evaluating and comparing a culturally diverse environment group and the control group of Korean children in terms of language characteristics and the correlation of related variables. Forty-seven children and their mothers serv...
This study was aimed at evaluating and comparing a culturally diverse environment group and the control group of Korean children in terms of language characteristics and the correlation of related variables. Forty-seven children and their mothers served as an experimental group. The mothers had diverse cultural backgrounds from countries such as the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, etc. The majority of them came from the Philippines and Japan.
To evaluate speech and language abilities of children and their mothers, four examination tools (Preschool Language Scale, Picture Vocabulary Test, and Naming test), and questionnaires were used. Performances were analyzed by the "t" test procedure and the Pearson correlation coefficient.
The results were as follows;
First, there were statistically significant differences of speech and language performances between the culturally diverse environment group and the control group, but there were no significant differences in picture vocabulary comprehension between the two groups.
Second, in relation to the different countries mothers came from, the children with mothers from Japan showed statistically higher performances than children whose mothers came from the Philippines in terms of ages, but there were no significant differences in percentiles.
Third, language characteristics of the children with the culturally diverse family environment showed a high correlation to children's verbal and non verbal intelligence, their mother's Korean language abilities, the extent of educational experiences of children such as kindergarten, and parent's marriage periods.
The results of the study suggest that language characteristics of the children in the culturally diverse family environment are different, but analysis of the results also require the other various factors to be considered together.
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