THE SITUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COHERENT SPEECH OF 5-6 YEAR OLD CHILDREN AT PRESCHOOLS IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE

Abstract

Coherent speech is a form of mental activity that determines a child's level of language and intellectual development. The development of coherent speech has an important impact on the formation of a child's personality and socialization ability, and it largely determines success in the early school years. Therefore, the development of coherent speech is the central task of the speech development process for preschool children. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the level of coherent speech development of 5-6-year-old preschool children. The study used the document research method to synthesize articles and scientific works related to the research problem, and at the same time using qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods to collect, process and evaluate the results of the development of coherent speech of 132 preschool children 5-6 years old at preschools in Thai Nguyen province. Survey results show that, while speech coherence was good in some children, it was medium and low in most children who participated in the survey. This result contributes to providing useful information in building a measure of coherent speech development for 5-6 year old preschool children.