In this study, WSS developmental checklist and nursery maladaptive test were conducted
and applied to 203 multicultural children and non-multicultural children. The children
were 3-5years old and were attending 34 kindergartens located in Gimpo-si and
Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do to investigate the developmental level and status of adaptation to
the nursery in multicultural children. The result shows that there is no difference in the
development of scientific thinking and mathematical thinking while developmental level is
lower in personality, sociality, language, reading and writing area in multicultural children
compared to non-multicultural children. According to age, there is no difference in the
development between 4~5-year-old multicultural children and non-multicultural children
while there is a difference in the development between 3-year-old multicultural and
non-multicultural children. It also shows that there are no significant differences in
nursery adaptation between multicultural children and non-multicultural children.