Influence of Preschool Programme and Language Stimulation Environment on Language Development of Preschoolers

摘要

The study was carried out in rural and urban areas of district Hisar to assess the influence of Preschool Programme and Language Stimulation Environment on language development of preschoolers. A total number of120 preschoolers of age group 4 to 5 years were taken. Two villages, namely, Kaimari and Mangali were taken as rural location and for urban the Hisar city was selected for collection of data, out of which 60 children were from urban and 60 formed rural areas. Reynell Developmental Language Scale (RDLS, 1985) was used to test the language development of children. Self-developed language stimulation environment checklist was used to judge the language stimulation environment of preschools which included availability of material in preschools and teacher interaction with preschoolers. Preschool programme evaluation sheet by Verna Hilderbrand (1981) was used to examine the quality of preschool programme. The results revealed that preschool programme was highly associated with verbal comprehension A (x~2=35.29), verbal comprehension B (x~2=22.46) and expressive language (x2= 17.84) of preschoolers. On the basis of availability of materials in preschools, these were highly associated with verbal comprehension A (x2=30.48*), verbal comprehension B(x~2=24.81*) and expressive language (X~2-17.84) of preschoolers at P<0.05. Teacher interaction was also highly associated with all three components of the language development of preschoolers.