Boys' language skills

“Vallotton and Ayoub found that language skills -- specifically the building of vocabulary -- help children regulate their emotions and behavior and that boys lag behind girls in both language skills and self-regulation” (ScienceDaily staff member)

          I was pleased to see that building language skills would improve boys’ behavior. I never have considered that the way they acted was in relation to language; I more or less thought that it was their genes or how they were raised. From personal experience, it seems that girls are more attentive to their outside surroundings and pick up more on what they hear and see. Boys on the other hand, seem to rather have tunnel vision and are only focused on what they want to see or hear.

 I know schools are pushing more and more for student’s entering Kindergarten to have a higher level of knowledge. This study shows that could in turn help the teachers manage to teach more lessons. If the student’s know more when they come in, then the teachers will have to spend less time working on their behavior skills and more time learning, so we could improve from the 13^th leading education country.

 I’m not exactly sure of the correlation, but perhaps if boys can process more information and understand language better, then they would be able to handle situations by themselves more often. One issue that brings up some discussion in schools is vocabulary tests. A lot of people see it as memorization and recitation, but if they listen to what Vallotton and Ayoub found, then maybe they would be more apt to use them. Showing an impact on more than just knowledge could prove vocabulary tests to be a solution to a number of problems. There is also many other ways to gain vocabulary than by just having a test.
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