Improving Peer Communication in Young Children

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dc.contributor.authorExler, Shoshana
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-13T15:21:35Z
dc.date.available2017-05-13T15:21:35Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-12
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effects a brief series of lessons teaching communication skills would have on preschool children’s ability to communicate with one another. This study utilized a one-group pre-test, post-test design. Expressive and receptive communication skills were assessed before and after the lessons using a game in which participants were required to describe familiar objects and listen to the descriptions to draw and guess what they were. Participants were twelve Caucasian preschool children between the ages of four and six years old who attended an orthodox Jewish day school. The null hypothesis was retained as the results indicated that there was no statistically significant increase in the children’s ability to communicate with one another after receiving explicit communication training. Recommendations for future research include using alternative assessments which omit the drawing aspect of the task used in this study, having a longer time to teach communication skills, and using a larger and more diverse sample in the experimental design in order to control for the effect of age and other demographic variables on the outcomes of the lessons.en_US
dc.format.extent36 pagesen_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2JW0K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3918
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
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dc.rightsPublic Domain Mark 1.0*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/*
dc.subjectPreschoolen_US
dc.subjectPeer communicationen_US
dc.subjectSocial skillsen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate).
dc.titleImproving Peer Communication in Young Childrenen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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