Factors that Impact the Development of Early Childhood’s Communication Competence

Main Author: Fauzi, Fauzi
Format: Article PeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2020
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Online Access: http://repository.iainpurwokerto.ac.id/7219/1/Early%20Childhood.pdf
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  • This research aims to obtain empirical information about the influence of vocabulary mastery, sentence mastery, and social intelligence on early childhood communication skills; and to know the variables with the greatest impact on early childhood communication skills. This research uses a quantitative approach, a causal associative type with path analysis techniques. The research was conducted on the children of Raudlatul Athfal (Islamic education institute for early childhood) class B in Banyumas Regency, Central Java Province. Multistage sampling technique obtained 179 children for the research sample. The technique of collecting data used an oral test technique. The collected data was analysed by descriptive analysis technique and inferential analysis technique by using path analysis technique. The empirical findings of this study indicate that (1) vocabulary mastery, sentence mastery, and social intelligence have a direct positive effect on the communication ability of the children of age; (2) Social intelligence has the greatest influence on the ability of communicating in early childhood when compared to the influence of vocabulary mastery and mastery of sentence. This suggests that it will improve the communication ability of early childhood and can be done by trying to improve the three variables. The development of social intelligence can become the basis for the development of early childhood communication skills.