From the language development stand point, children were able to share ideas, use new words and expand their vocabulary. ... "Dramatic play is central to children's healthy development and learning during the preschool years" (Dodge, Colker, Heroman, 2002, pp.271) In a comprehensive review of numerous studies on socio-dramatic play, researchers found evidence that this type of play contributes to advances in "verbalization, vocabulary, language comprehension, attention span, imagination, concentration, impulse control, curiosity, problem-solving strategies, cooperation, e...

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The information that most stood out to me in James Britton's book, Language and Learning, was what I read in chapter two about language and speech development. Language is an important part of a child's development. They use language not just to communicate but also as a way to make sense of the wor...

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There are times that a peer or teacher will say a vocabulary word that Dylan does not seem to know and he will ignore the speaker or just look at them and smile. I think he does this when he knows you are asking him something or talking about something but he is unfamiliar with the vocabulary you're using so he doesn't know what you're talking about. ...

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INTRODUCTION Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist and early childhood educator, made significant distributions to early childhood education developmental psychology especially in the areas of the developments of children's thought, cognition and language (Ornstein & Levine, 1993) In his studies from...

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