THE AREAS OF LANGUAGE - CRITICAL ANALYSIS

To determine the degree of linguistic maturity of a child, a series of areas that are usually formally tested in the assessment of language were analyzed. Specifically, an individual test of the assessment of l anguage was applied to a sample of 203 children of Granada (Spain) ran ging in age from 2.6 to 6.6 years. This test consists of six areas: co mprehension, memory, fluency, vocabulary, knowledge, and judgement and intelligence. A factorial analysis of the data was carried out to che ck the classification of the above-mentioned areas. It is found that i n the three following factors the analyzed variables get saturated: 'l earned behaviors', 'behaviors which are being learned' and 'memory'.