Influence of pre-school education on child's language development: A case study in Morigaon, Assam, India

The early years are considered to be the most impressionable and formative period in a child's life. The period of life that stretches from around 3–6 years is a period of momentous significance. Childhood foundations play a great role in the way an individual would adjust to life later on. It has been held that the first few years of life are critical years for language development. Formal schooling starts from primary education. But entering to the formal schooling without any preparation will lead towards wastage and stagnation in subsequent levels of education. It is a common fact that language plays a very important role in the life of a human being. Language makes a man a perfect human being. Infact it can be said that the efficiency of a human being is measured on the basis of the linguistic ability of the same. As such the investigator tried to find out the influence of Pre-school Education on child's Language Development, where the study area has been selected as Morigaon District, Assam, India.