Children Constructing Dramatic Contexts.

Millward, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ546023

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Children Constructing Dramatic Contexts.

Millward, Peter

Current Issues in Language and Society, v3 n1 p65-81 1996

Explores how a group of children and their teacher use their language knowledge to create a make-believe context. Shows how participants collaborate to construct dramatic experience and use language to describe their relationships, roles, and situations. Data are derived from a drama in which the participants wait for an event to occur. (16 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Creative Dramatics, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Language Processing, Role Perception, Role Playing, Sociolinguistics, Story Telling, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue: Children Talking. Development of Pragmatic Competence.