A Study on the Contributions of Second Language Education to Language Development in Pre-school Period

In this study, Turkish language processing skills of the 6 ages children attending preschool education in Turkish and a in secondary language were investigated. The study was conducted between 6 years old 100 children attending SHCEK and Ministry of National Education private pre-schools located in Izmır province and kinder gardens and the parents of all children were also given a questionnaire to obtain personal information concerning the family. In the study, Language Processing Test was used to gather the data. Language Processing Test has seven sub-tests. In analysing the data, One-Way Anova, t test techniques were used and 0.05 value was taken as significant. The findings show the difference between children attending preschool education only in Turkish and in a second language. There is no significant difference in Language Processing Skills of the 6 year old preschool children attending education in Turkish and in a second language in terms of their father education status, mother's job status and number of sister/brother. There is a significant difference in favour of 6 year old children attending education in second language in “Naming”, “Defining the function”, “Similarity”, “Difference” and “Features” subtests and overall.