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Article: Effect of language program on behavior.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Abstract
A quasi-experimental design was used to compare the social adjustment (i.e., behavior) of 21 children who received the Language for Learning program with those of 24 children enrolled in a comparison school. Results indicated that instruction with the Language for Learning program produced both statistically and educationally significant effects on the social adjustment of children.
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The chief instrument of integration and order in human mental life is language (Vygotsky, 1962). Its importance to success in school cannot be overstated. Children with language deficits face an increased likelihood of negative long-term outcomes ...