IMPROVE SOCIAL - EMOTIONAL CAPACITY FOR STUDENTS OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION MAJOR

Social-emotional capacity is considered a fundamental capacity for personal development of each person and each age group. For students of early childhood education, social - emotional capacity not only helps students have many advantages in learning but also creates good conditions to develop their careers in the future. The article presents the current state of social-emotional capacity of 448 first - year students majoring in Preschool education in the provinces of Lang Son, Nghe An, Hue, and Da Nang. The study used the social - emotional capacity questionnaire developed by Zhou and Ee (2012). The results show that the social - emotional capacity of first-year students of early childhood education is quite low and uneven among the components of this capacity. At the same time, the current study proposes three solutions to improve students' social - emotional capacity.