Abstract

CASTRO YANEZ, Ginette Gabriela et al. Language skills and school achievement in talented. CES Psicol [online]. 2012, vol.5, n.2, pp.40-55. ISSN 2011-3080.

The study of talent has grown vigorously in recent years. The contrast between linguistic behavior and cognitive performance of socioeconomically deprived students who have participated in the 'Programa Talentos UdeC' and are considered talented aims at determining the correlation between high intellectual potential, language and school performance of these students. Intelligence (Raven) marks in the last four years of high-school and university admission test data were analyzed. Reading comprehension and vocabulary tests were applied to measure students' linguistic performance. On the one hand, the results show that high intelligence levels correlated with high or moderately high performance in the tests applied as well as in mathematics tests. On the other hand, a multiple regression analysis demonstrates the importance of language to explain the results in the university admission tests. Well-developed language skills play a role in all areas of cognitive development and should be as enhanced as mathematics in school.

Keywords : Talent; Ability; Intelligence; Vocabulary; Reading Comprehension; School Performance; Academic Achievement.

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