한국어-프랑스어 이중언어 아동의 동사 표현 양상과 다양성

Aspects of Verbal Expression and Its Diversity in Korean-French Bilingual Children: With special reference to action naming task

In this research, a total of 34 children (48 to 60 months old) belonging to 2 groups (Korean monolinguals, Korean-French bilinguals) were compared and their responses were analyzed during an action naming task based on video-clips, called APPROX to explore the verbal lexicon acquisition and their expressive diversity. Two groups differed significantly in rates of used lexicon, valid responses, referent verbs, error patterns and valid verbs’ uses. Especially, on the expressive diversity, monolingual group exceeded bilingual; on the responses’ validity, the best performance was achieved by bilingual children whose language of instruction differed from the language of testing. Thus, executive control outcomes for bilingual children are general but performance on verbal task is specific to factors in the bilingual experience.