THE ABILITY OF KINDERGARTNERS IN LEARNING 10 DEFINE WORDS (A CASE STUDY OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS)
Young children are sensitive to changes and should be accustomed to knowing new things including schooling. Kindergarten functions as the young children mental and physic anticipation before attending the formal schooling. No need to say that as part of language development. all children learn to de...
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| Summary: | Young children are sensitive to changes and should be accustomed to knowing new things including schooling. Kindergarten functions as the young children mental and physic anticipation before attending the formal schooling. No need to say that as part of language development. all children learn to define words consciously or not. Those children learn to define words to get the same point of understanding, so they become active members of families, peer groups and societies. Children's maturity in defining words increases as they grow older. Gradually, definitions become more sophisticated. Based on maturity input theory, I do a research on kindergartners' ability to define words. One of the factors that influences a child's ability to define words is the age growth. A child's maturity in learning to define words increases with age. which is partly caused by the cognitive development. The older a child is. the more complete word definition he gives. Moreover, vocabulary is so dependent upon experiential background, dialect, culture, and other social variables |
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