The language play of kindergarten children  

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McCabe, Allyssa ; Ely, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 40 (Jun. 1994), page 19-35.
Fulltext: First Language 1994 14. 019-35.pdf (830.27KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Play has long been hypothesized to serve important social, emotional and cognitive functions. Although the existence of language play has been documented, the types and functions of language play in naturalistic settings have received scant attention. In this study, children's classroom language play and its relationship to measures of literacy and metalinguistic development were examined. Twenty kindergarten children were observed and audiotaped for one hour. Following the observation period, children were administered the Test of Early Reading Ability (TERA), a word definition task and a riddle explication task. Language play was found in more than 23% of children's utterances and was positively correlated with the riddle explication task. Children's ability to explicate riddles correlated positively with their TERA scores. Young children's language play represents an important aspect of their metalinguistic and literacy development.

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