2.2. Participants
Children recruited for this study were from low-income families and attended a public kindergarten in central
Denizli. The consent was obtained from MEB officials and the parents to assess children’s language development
and demographic information. The participants were 46 five-year-olds, enrolled in two different classrooms.
Participant classrooms were randomly placed in the experiment and control group. The control group of this study
included 23 children (% 44 female and %56 male). On average, the children were 65.69 months of age (SD= 3.03),
with an age range from 60.00 to 71.00 months. The experimental group of this study included 22 children (%
41Female and &59 male). On average, the children were 66.75 months of age (SD = 3.29), with an age range from
60.00 to 73.00 months.
2.3. Measures
In order to determine the language development levels of the children “Test of Early Language Development-
Third Edition” (TELD-3), developed by Hresko, Reid ve Hammill (1999) has been used. This test is a normative,
valid and credible measure tool, developed in the United States of America in order to measure the receptive and
expressive oral language skills of the children whose ages ranging from 2 years 0 month and 7 years 11 months. It is
commonly used with the aim of diagnosing children who have language disorders in the early ages, showing weak
and strong sides of their language developments, giving information about development process and researching.
TELD-3, has been identified as Test of Early Language Development-Third Edition: TurkishVersion (TELD-3:T) in
the international literature with the contributions of PRO-ED publishing (Topbas, 2010). TELD has been used twice
as pre-tests and post tests.
2.4. Results
The aim of this study was to identify the effect of dialogic reading upon the receptive and expressive language
developments of the preschool children in a group of 4-5 years. The results of pre-test and posttest about their
receptive language were shown in the Table 1.