동화중심 사회적 능력 증진 프로그램이 다문화 가정 유아의 사회적 기술과 또래놀이 상호작용에 미치는 효과

Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Children of Multi-cultural Families: Effects of Fairy-Tale Activities on Their Social Skills and Peer Plays

As a means to improve the social skills and interactive peer plays of young children from multi-cultural families, this study, first, developed a social competence enhancement program focusing on fairy tales and, then, applied it to the children. The program was implemented twice a week to four target children with the multi-cultural background who attended the private S Kindergarten located in Changwon. Pre- and post-social skills and interactive peer play scores were measured, compared, and analyzed. In addition, behavioral changes in the children during the program were also analyzed. The results were as follows: (1) the social competence enhancement program could predict the improvement of the social skills in multi-cultural family children; (2) the program, also, could predict the promotion of their interactive peer plays. Conclusively, the social competence enhancement program improves the social skills and interactive peer plays of the young children from multi-cultural families.