摘要：Joint attention,language development,and the relationship between these two variables were compared in infants from multi-cultural and Korean families. Joint attention was observed in both the Early Social Communication Scale (ESCS) and in infant-mother free play. Language development was evaluated by means of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory-Korean. There were no group differences in initiating and responding to joint attention in ESCS. However,in infant-mother free play,joint attention episodes were less and shorter in duration with infants from multi-cultural families than in Korean infants. The size of both the expressive and receptive vocabulary was also smaller in infants from multi-cultural families than in Korean infants. In terms of Korean infants,mean duration of joint attention episodes in free play showed a significant positive correlation with the size of the expressive vocabulary and initiating joint attention in ESCS also showed a significant positive correlation with the size of receptive vocabulary. However,none of the measures of joint attention indicated a significant relationship with the size of either expressive or receptive vocabulary in infants from multi-cultural families.
关键词：infants from multi-cultural families;joint attention;Language development;Early Social Communication Scale;infant-mother free play;M-B CDI-K
其他关键词：다문화 가정 유아;함께 주의하기;언어발달;초기 사회적 의사소통 척도;유아-어머니 자유놀이;한국판 멕아더-베이츠 의사소통발달검사
