Özet:

The main objective of this study is to study the impact of 36-72 months old children’s gender, the area in which they live, the number of brothers and sisters and the teacher’s experience time on receiver language skills through the Peabody Picture Word Test. The participants of the study consisted of 191(98 girls, 93 boys) children who showed normal development for 36-72 months in the Elazığ, Hatay, Kocaeli and Konya provinces. In order to determine the demographic information of children, the researcher addressed the question of the child's gender, brother number, mother's educational status, father's educational status, social status, income level, state of continuing pre-school education and teacher's experience time. In this study, the scanning model and cutting methods of quantum research types were used. The data was analyzed using the SPSS program. In the analysis of the data; Normality Test, T-Test and ANOVA were used. Considering the scores they obtained from the Peabody Image Word Test, 36-72 months of children found that the language development, gender, area in which they live, the teacher’s experience time factors were influential (p<0.05), and the brother’s number factor was not influential (p>0.05).

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