ECH113 assignment 3
“Let’s pretend!”: How dramatic play fosters children’s language and communication skills
Introduction
Dramatic play is an important part of early chidhood develoment, it can be defined as a type of game that let children accept and assign roles, and then take action of these roles(Dunn et al,2012). Dramatic play helps children understand the world around them. It not only teaches children about the roles they choose to play, but also provides the development opportunities in a variety of areas. American children drama scholar Catherine further emphasize creative dramatic play is through drama to develop children's critical thinking and creative expression, which focus on children in the play when facing all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, problems of strain capacity. Children try various solutions in the dramatic play, which can encourage their thinking in the "acting" people, people and society, and nature of the various relations, so as to enrich the children's various kinds of experience. Catherine thinks that the education of creative drama purpose is not the creation of the drama, but rather through drama to develop children's critical thinking and creative expression, foster children’s language and communication skills. It is important to remember that because dramatic play is all about allowing children to use their imagination to complete role play and depicting the life experiences, therefore the possibilities are literally endless. This is a time when they break through the wall of the reality, pretending to be someone or something different from themselves, actions to go with the role which they prefer to play and dramatic situations. This type of games let the child development of abstract thinking, literacy and social studies.
The proper environment
The proper environmeent is to set stage for children’s dramatic play, considerating what is useful to foster their language and communication skills. Because of the important relationship
Introduction
Dramatic play is an important part of early chidhood develoment, it can be defined as a type of game that let children accept and assign roles, and then take action of these roles(Dunn et al,2012). Dramatic play helps children understand the world around them. It not only teaches children about the roles they choose to play, but also provides the development opportunities in a variety of areas. American children drama scholar Catherine further emphasize creative dramatic play is through drama to develop children's critical thinking and creative expression, which focus on children in the play when facing all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, problems of strain capacity. Children try various solutions in the dramatic play, which can encourage their thinking in the "acting" people, people and society, and nature of the various relations, so as to enrich the children's various kinds of experience. Catherine thinks that the education of creative drama purpose is not the creation of the drama, but rather through drama to develop children's critical thinking and creative expression, foster children’s language and communication skills. It is important to remember that because dramatic play is all about allowing children to use their imagination to complete role play and depicting the life experiences, therefore the possibilities are literally endless. This is a time when they break through the wall of the reality, pretending to be someone or something different from themselves, actions to go with the role which they prefer to play and dramatic situations. This type of games let the child development of abstract thinking, literacy and social studies.
The proper environment
The proper environmeent is to set stage for children’s dramatic play, considerating what is useful to foster their language and communication skills. Because of the important relationship