Early Literacy Profile of Kindergarten Children: Ankara Sample
ANKARA UNIVERSITESI EGITIM BILIMLERI FAKULTESI OZEL EGITIM DERGISI-ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, cilt.18, sa.1, ss.61-87, 2017 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2017
- Doi Numarası: 10.21565/ozelegitimdergisi.299868
- Dergi Adı: ANKARA UNIVERSITESI EGITIM BILIMLERI FAKULTESI OZEL EGITIM DERGISI-ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.61-87
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Early literacy, kindergarten children, vocabulary knowledge, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, listening comprehension, PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, EMERGENT LITERACY, PRESCHOOL-CHILDREN, PHONEMIC AWARENESS, WORD RECOGNITION, ORAL LANGUAGE, LETTER NAMES, ENVIRONMENT, VOCABULARY, SKILLS
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study aimed to make an early literacy profile of kindergarten children educated in Ankara. Participants were 403 kindergarten children selected from several schools located in neighborhoods of different socioeconomic statuses in Ankara. The early literacy skills of children were tested with seven sub-tests (Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Category Naming, Function Knowledge, Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, and Listening Comprehension) of Test of Early Literacy (TEL). All the testing sessions were carried out in a quiet room located on the school grounds of the tested participants, individually. All the gathered data were analyzed into two steps. Firstly, the descriptive statistics of children's early literacy scores, then the distribution of these scores in each sub-test were analyzed separately. Findings from the present study indeed point that children were only close to the expected level in the vocabulary knowledge field but in all other fields, they were below than this level. All these findings are discussed with reference to the existing curriculum and the educational activities used in kindergartens.