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A Study on Language Characteristics of Children according to ages in Culturally Diverse Family Environments

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2009, 10(3), pp.265-281
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

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1남부대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was aimed at comparing language characteristics of children from culturally diverse families according to age groups(before 60 months and after 60 months). For this study, 47 children from multicultural environment were participated. The majority of them came from the Philippines and Japan. To evaluate language abilities of the children, two standardized tests (Preschool Receptive-Expressive Language Scale and Picture Vocabulary Test) were used. Performances were analyzed by the “t” test procedure. The results of this study were as follows; There were statistically significant differences between the two age groups in receptive language age, expressive language age and combined language age, but there were significant differences between the two age groups in receptive vocabulary abilities. The older age one shows less performance than the youngers.

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