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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"pretend play"”.
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Pretend play and its links to children's emotional experience, expression and regulation
… health. Despite a close link theorised between pretend play and emotional development, empirical evidence is limited and restricted to early childhood. This study investigates how pretend play among 7- to 10-year-old Chinese children is linked to their emotional experience, expression and …
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Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children
This thesis will illustrate how pretend play can be used in the home for educational purposes. The major emphasis of the work will be emergent literacy, however, application principles can be applied in all subject areas. Parents who desire to expand their child's literacy skills while exposing the …
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The Effects of Differential Reinforcement on the Variable and Novel Pretend Play Behaviors of Children with Autism
Play is important in the development of every child. A deficit in appropriate play skills is commonly associated with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As such, play skills are often a target of comprehensive intervention programs for young children with ASD. Many different approaches …
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Capturing and Maintaining Deaf Toddler Gaze in Pretend Play: A Comparison of Dyads With Deaf and Hearing Mothers
… behaviors related to joint attention during toy play in eight deaf mother-deaf toddler and eight hearing mother-deaf toddler dyads was conducted. The gaze patterns of the 18- to 28-month-old toddlers and selected aspects of maternal communicative behavior were analyzed to determine the relative …
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Understanding the boundaries of make-believe: An ethnographic case study of pretend play among Korean children in a U.S. community
"This study investigated pretend play among a group of Korean children in an American community, with the aim of understanding the boundaries of make-believe by which the children separate ""reality"" from ""fantasy."" The study focused on four questions: (a) What is the nature of the …
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To share or not to share : a case study of six Chinese immigrant children’s sharing behaviors during social pretend play in a US preschool classroom
… in terms of sharing were encountered in social pretend play, the six Chinese immigrant children sometimes accepted rejections by abandoning the sharing intentions, doing something else, or turning to follow the playmates’ commands, and they shared passively to avoid conflicts. The Chinese …
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Self-regulation and language skills of 4- to 5-year-old children with English as an additional language before and after a guided play intervention as measured by teacher reports and cognitive batteries
There has been increasing interest in pretend play and children’s cognitive development. This study examines the efficacy of a guided pretend play intervention on the self-regulation, language, and pre-literacy skills of 4- to 5-year-olds. The sample consisted of 151 children who were randomized …
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Sociodramatic Play and Child Development
… a concern for the perceived devaluing of social pretend play in both formal early-years educational environments in particular and in wider western society as a whole, this research seeks to identify and categorise some of the potential developmental benefits of this kind of play activity. It …
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The effect of situational context on playful behaviors of young preschool children
… assess the effect of Situational context on the playful behaviors of young preschool children ages 18 to 24 months. Playfulness was defined as a psychological construct involving the disposition of play (Rogers, Meeks, Impara, & Frary, 1987). Playful behaviors were observed and coded from …
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What stories mean to children: Low-income preschoolers' emotional attachments to stories
… watching or listening, and enacting the story in pretend play. Mothers articulated a folk theory that stories serve important emotional and educational functions in young children's lives and described related cultural practices, such as, daily exposure to television/video stories, granting …
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Real-time mother-child physiological coordination: the moderating effect of a mutually responsive orientation
… physiological and behavioral coordination each play an important role in children’s socioemotional development, and these processes are interdependent. However, we have limited knowledge about the temporal pattern of real-time physiological coordination, and empirical evidence on the …
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Pretence and Counterfactual Reasoning: What is the nature of the relationship
… (Mage = 58 mths, SD = 4) completed measures of pretend play, counterfactual reasoning, executive functions (EFs) and receptive language. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to assess whether pretence and CFR measures each loaded on to latent factors. Hierarchical multiple repression …
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The Phenomenology of Role Play: Are Children “Thinking-As-If” or “Behaving-As-If”?
When children role play, they do things such as change their tone of voice or take on the character’s emotions or needs. These behaviours make it appear as though children adopt the mental perspective of the character they are pretending to be, which has led some researchers to argue that children …
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Exploring the Contribution of Videotaped Documentation to Children's Symbolic Play
… documentation contributed to children's symbolic play. The naturally occurring symbolic play of two children, five-years-old, was videotaped in their classroom for four weeks. Edited segments of their symbolic play were then given to the children to revisit and reflect on with the researcher …
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Effects of Academic and Non-academic Instructional Approaches on Preschool ELLs' English Language Development
… during teacher-structured (academic) or free play (non-academic) activities. In addition, the researcher investigated the perceptions of preschool teachers and parents of bilingual preschool children regarding the effects of academic and non-academic instructional approaches on student …