Fungsi Eksekutif dan Bahasa: Tinjauan Meta-analisis

Abstract

School readiness is very crucial for achieving children’s school success. Language, in both the ability to understand and the use of language, is one of important aspect of school readiness. Language itself is strongly influenced by executive function. Although many studies have found that executive function is closely related to language development, some studies still find uncertainty in the relationship between them. The purpose of this research is to study the integrative findings of a number of studies to elicit stronger patterns of relationships from previous research by using meta-analysis methods. There are 28 studies are including in this meta-analysis study, and artifact allow for correction is sampling error (bare bones meta-analysis).The results of this meta-analysis study shows that the correlation of executive function and language is 0.318, with the confidence level is 95%.