다문화가정 아동이 비다문화 가정 아동에 비해 음운인식, 낱말재인에서 낮은 수행력을 보인다는 여러 연구결과는 이 두 가지 요소와 관련 있는 읽기유창성뿐만 아니라 읽기이해에서도 문제가 나타날 수 있음을 시사한다. 따라서 본 연구는 초등 1.2학년 다문화가정 아동과 비다문화가정 아동집단의 읽기속도와 읽기 오류빈도 및 읽기오류유형 분석을 통해 읽기유창성 특성을 파악하고자 한다. 연구 대상은 강원도 내 초등학교 1,2학년에 재학중인 다문화가정 아동 22명과 비다문화가정 아동 22명이며 언어, 지적능력, 사회•정서, 행동, 다른 감각기관 등에 문제를 보이지 않는다고 보고된 아동들이다. 읽기유창성 평가를 위해 언어기반읽기평가(KOLRA)의 하위검사인 읽기유창성 검사를 실시하여 읽기속도와 읽기오류빈도, 읽기오류유형을 측정하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 읽기속도에 있어서 문화집단 간 유의한 차이가 있었으며, 상호작용효과도 나타나, 1학년에서 다문화가정 아동들이 비다문화가정 아동에 비해 읽기속도가 느리지만, 2학년에서는 그 차이가 감소하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 읽기오류빈도에서 전체, 내용어, 기능어 읽기오류빈도 모두 문화 집단 간 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 학년 간 유의한 차이가 나타나 학년이 증가할수록 읽기 오류빈도가 감소하면서, 읽기유창성이 증진된다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 셋째, 읽기오류유형은 문화집단에서 다문화 가정 아동들은 비다문화 가정 아동에 비해 대치오류가 많이 나타났고, 1학년이 2학년에 비해 생략오류가 더 많이 나타났다.
Previous studies on the reading abilities of multicultural children have reported that multicultural children have displayed low performance in phonological awareness and word recognition compared to their non multicultural peers. These results do not mean that the problem just stops with phonological awareness and word recognition, but it also implies that these children could face difficulties in reading fluency, which is relevant to the two factors, and could face problems with reading comprehension, which is strongly related to reading fluency. Hence, through an analysis of reading rate, frequencies and types of errors during reading by multicultural first and second grade elementary school students, this research aims to identify the characteristic of reading fluency.A total of 44 students, 22 multicultural students and 22 non-multicultural students who are in their first and second grade of an elementary school in Gangwondo were selected for this study. They were reported to have displayed no problems in language, intellectual capability, social•emotional behavior, nor sensory organs. A reading fluency test, a sub-test of KOLRA, was conducted in order to measure reading rate, frequency of reading errors, and type of reading errors in order to evaluate reading fluency.The results of the research are as follows. First, there was a significant difference between cultural groups for reading rate, and an interactional effect, with multicultural children reading slower then non-cultural children in the first grade, while the difference was reduced among the second grade. Second, there was no significant difference between both culture groups in terms of overall, content word, and function word reading error frequency, but there was such a difference between grades. It can be seen that with reading error frequency reducing as the grade advances, the reading fluency increases. Third, in terms of types of reading errors, multicultural children showed more substitution errors than non-multicultural students. And first grade students showed more ommission errors than their second grade counterparts.