Nu contextual and play

Skolnick et al 2015 role-play

• children who were exposed to shared reading a fantastical stories experienced significantly greater games in vocabulary learning compared to students exposed to share reading of stories with more realistic themes

• Children learn things are their personal experience which expand vocabulary

• Fantasy often includes archaic or dialectal linguistic features outside their ordinary scope

Caregiver gender

• previous findings show male caregivers talk less and have fewer conversations with their children than female caregivers

• 2006 research found male caregivers use a limited vocabulary and then lower number of wh questions

Vygotsky socio dramatic play

• he observed that roleplay was a key factor in children’s cognitive development and therefore their linguistic development

• This is because role-playing in different scenarios can expose children and help them practice language. They may not ordinarily use in their everyday lives.

Pellegrini 1985

found the children tended to use more literate feature when engaging in pretend play for example greater sophistication in the use of pronounced noun phrases conjunctions and verbs

role-play and power

• research found that role-playing situations of an equal power children edge 47 used for the discourse marker well much more frequently when playing the powerful role