Pre-school Child Language Ability From Other Friend

In pre-school children, language skills is important because it will be an advanced foundation to understand the next lesson. Recent research suggests that grouping children according to ability should be avoided, because children with low language skills will most falling further behind.

Preschoolers learn a lot from his friends the same as learning from his teacher, especially when learning the language. A recent study found that children with low language skills tend to be increasingly difficult to improve language skills when placed in a class of children with language skills are equally low. But it did not happen when children are placed in classes that average language skills.

Research has been published in the journal Child Development 338 people looked at children in 48 different preschool classes and test the skills of grammar, vocabulary, and ability to discuss what is happening in a picture book. The children were tested in the fall and spring to provide a picture of improvement in learning ability for school.

Children with poor language skills are not improved or deteriorated when placed with other children of low language skills. Their language ability also did not improve when placed in classes with children of higher ability. Children who have high language ability is not compromised when there are children with low language skills in the classroom.

Teacher quality does not seem to have any effect in this study. the researchers suggested that the interaction between the children or teacher expectations of students who are more into play.

In both cases, the results showed that grouping students according to achievement or ability at an early age is not the proper way to help improve their skills. Letting children help each other is a better way.

Many preschool programs in the United States that are targeted to poor children. Unfortunately, these children show a slow development of language skills.

"If we really want to help children lift themselves out of poverty, and use the preschool as a way to make that happen, we need to reconsider how we provide education. Classrooms that combine students from different backgrounds is the best way to provide the necessary impetus to poor students, "said Laura Justice, researchers from Ohio State University.