Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)

Profile of Basic Language Skills of Kindergarten Children and Implications for Guidance and Counselling

Authors
Euis Farida Zahra
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Euis Farida Zahra
Available Online November 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icece-16.2017.29How to use a DOI?
Keywords
basic proficiency in kindergarten, guidance and counseling
Abstract

Speaking is one of the basic skills possessed by each individual. In developing speaking skill, it will better if it is done since the children studying in kindergarten. But in fact, the speaking skill often gets a lot of obstacles during its development. Hence, this study aimed at describing the basic proficiency profile of the children the kindergarten and its implications towards Guidance and Counselling. The method used in this research is descriptive method in which samples of this research were kindergarten students, kindergarten teachers, and parents who send their children to one kindergarten in Bandung. The results show that the children have sufficient ability to be able to implement the basic language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The study also found a weakness of the kindergarten teachers who prefer teaching reading, writing, mathematics, and memorization to speaking. The implication in guidance and counselling program on children's development was to facilitate the children with variant methods to improve children's basic language skills. As for teachers, it is suggested to do self-development in order to enrich their knowledge and skills to help and support the development of the basic language skills for children.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
10.2991/icece-16.2017.29
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icece-16.2017.29How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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