Aptitudes y aprendizajes desde la esfera psicolingüística en niños y niñas de Inicial 2 del Centro de Educación Inicial Luis Cordero, mediante el Test ITPA. Cuenca 2018

Abstract

Learning is a progressive change by which an individual acquires and internalizes knowledge during the first years of life through the relation with the environment. However, what happens when a child does not achieve an appropriated learning for the age? We are in the necessity of evaluate what necessary learning skills are failing and determine whether or not there is a delay in these areas. General objective To determine the skills and learning level from the psycholinguistic point of view in boys and girls from pre-school level 2 of the Luis Cordero Early Education Centre, through the ITPA test. Methodology This is a prospective descriptive study, in which assessments were carried out on children who attended Pre-school Luis Cordero, using the ITPA test, Cuenca 2018 school year. The results obtained were related to the variables described in statistical tables of percentages. The software used for analysis and tabulation was SPSS 23.0, original version and Microsoft for frequency and percentage statistics. Results The sample was composed of 99 participants, among boys and girls. As a result, 42.4% of the population showed a psycholinguistic age appropriate for their chronological age, 41.3% showed a psycholinguistic age below their chronological age and only 16.3% showed a psycholinguistic age above their chronological age, with the psycholinguistic age of 4 years 0 months to 4 years 11 months predominating in the study population, represented by 49.5%.