2020, Vol.10, No.1

Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.5

pISSN : 2234-7534
https://journal.kci.go.kr/gcl

This study aims to examine how late-talkers who are known to lack expressive vocabulary apply taxonomic assumptions at various semantic category levels. The participants were 20 late-talkers between 25 and 35 months in age and 26 general peers. At the basic semantic level and the superordinate semantic level, to observes taxonomic assumptions, we examined which stimulus was selected based on the presence or absence of a novel word among two stimuli (thematic and taxonomic). Late-talkers were found to be limited in using taxonomic assumptions at both the basic semantic level and the superordinate semantic level, regardless of the presence of novel words. On the other hand, in the case of general children, when the novel word was presented in the superordinate semantic level, the taxonomic stimulus was significantly higher than the wordless condition, so that the taxonomic assumption was applied. Based on these results, late-talkers were found to have limited use of taxonomic assumptions in vocabulary acquisition with regard to their peers, especially at the basic level compared to the superordinate semantic level.

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between parents’facilitative communication perceived by children and children’s normative behavior, and to examine the mediating effect of sensitivity in the relationship between these two variables. The subjects of this study were 229 children aged 5 years old who were enrolled at 12 early childhood educational institutions in G city. For this study, data were collected and analyzed through a questionnaire survey of 24 classroom teachers these children. Results showed that, first, the parents’facilitative communication perceived by children has a significant effect on children’s normative behavior. Second, there is a significant mediating effect on the influence of children’s sensitivity between parent's facilitative communication perceived by children and children’s normative behavior. It is thought that by increasing level of parents’facilitative communication as perceived by children, as well as sensitivity, may serve as a basis to suggest ways to promote the children’s normative behavior.

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among language ability, cool executive function, self-regulation on music ability for young children. The subjects of this study were 185 whose mean age was 59.87 months. The measurement instruments ‘The Primary Measure of Music Audiation(PMMA)’, ‘Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test(REVT)’, ‘Stroop-like Day-Night Task’, and ‘Self-Regulation Rating Scales for Young Children’ were used to collect data, which was analyzed using t-tests and stepwise regression analysis. Results showed positive correlations among language ability, cool executive function, self regulation and music ability for young children. Additionally, language ability was found to be a significant predictive variable for impact on children's music ability and cool executive function was a further predictive variable. Also, analysis by sub-area showed expressive language ability, a sub-area of language ability, to be a significant predictive variable, with transition, a sub-area of cool executive function as additional predictive variables.