摘要：The purpose of this study was to investigate whether preschoolers' peer interaction type and level differ depending on pair compositon and task type. Preschoolers' peer interaction type and level were compared among three kinds of pair compositions(with a younger peer,with a same-age peer,and with an older peer) as well as between two types of tasks(tasks involving real objects,and tasks involving pictures). Subjects were seventy-eight four-year-old children recruited from six child-care centers in Scoul and Gyeonggi Province. The preschoolers were randomly assigned to one of the three kinds of pair compositions. Interaction processes of the pairs were recorded by a video camera,and the scenes were transcribed for content analyses. The transcribed peer interactions were coded according to the categories that the researcher had generated. Statistical methods used for the data analysis were frequencies,percentiles,means,standard deviations,repeated measures ANOVA,paired t-tests,one-way ANOVA. Major findings of this study were as follows : There were significant differences preschoolers' in interaction type depending on the pair compositions and the types of tasks. The preschoolers paired with the older peer used abstract collaborative explanations more frequently than in two other types of pair composition. The preschoolers paired with the younger peer used explanations without collaboration and parallel behaviors more frequently than in two other types of pair composition..
