Let's Pretend Play as Language Learning.

Yawkey, Thomas Daniels

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ERIC Number: EJ207923

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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Let's Pretend Play as Language Learning.

Yawkey, Thomas Daniels

Reading Improvement, v16 n2 p130-33 Sum 1979

Reviews four current approaches to play behavior of young children and concludes that using forms of play such as puppets and body action movements to rehearse story content is effective in aiding aural language comprehension and recall in young children. (FL)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Learning Activities, Learning Motivation, Memory, Pretend Play, Primary Education, Recall (Psychology), Speech Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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