Impact of ECE on Social Competencies and Language Learning

Early childhood education (ECE) addresses holistic development of thechildren brings positive experiences and enhances academic and socialcompetencies. In Pakistan, ECE program was started in last two decadeswith limited budget. Recent educational policies and projects havefocused ECE by developing rooms, play facilities and leaning kits,learning material and Teachers training etc. This casual comparativestudy compared the public ECE and Public non ECE students in socialdevelopment and language learning. Sample of 300 students from publicECE and public non ECE institutions was selected for studying level ofsocial competency and 500 for measuring academic achievement inEnglish and Urdu language by two stage stratified random samplingtechnique. To compare mean social competencies scores and languageachievement scores of public ECE and public non ECE students, t-testwas used. The study found that students studying in public ECEinstitutions are better in social competencies and language learning thanthat of students in public non ECE schools.