Impact of ECE on Social Competencies and Language Learning

Abstract

Early childhood education (ECE) addresses holistic development of the
children brings positive experiences and enhances academic and social
competencies. In Pakistan, ECE program was started in last two decades
with limited budget. Recent educational policies and projects have
focused ECE by developing rooms, play facilities and leaning kits,
learning material and Teachers training etc. This casual comparative
study compared the public ECE and Public non ECE students in social
development and language learning. Sample of 300 students from public
ECE and public non ECE institutions was selected for studying level of
social competency and 500 for measuring academic achievement in
English and Urdu language by two stage stratified random sampling
technique. To compare mean social competencies scores and language
achievement scores of public ECE and public non ECE students, t-test
was used. The study found that students studying in public ECE
institutions are better in social competencies and language learning than
that of students in public non ECE schools.