Language Play In Early Childhood

A lot of researchers consider language play as a main base of children's language development including grammar knowledge and creative communication process with others. Therefore, children are exposed to different patterns of language play whether at home or at school so that they can develop their language skills to great extent. There are a lot of studies in both psycholinguistics and social anthropology so that researchers can understand how children acquire and master their language. Childhood can be defined as the period when the child is creative with his or her own language. Thus, children are often engaged with investigating linguistic creativity. Each child looks for challenges so that he can shape new forms

Moreover, they become fond of imaginary world so they are able to adopt pretence play in different routes. Consequently, pretend play plays an important role in promoting child's knowledge as they have different mentalities. In this way, children have imaginary states so they can understand other minds. Consequently, children managed to promote their language development. On the other hand, anthropologists consider this behavior as a new form of practice as it allows them to perform specific activities and roles within their own society and culture. Moreover, pretend play might be important on its own as children contribute to creating new meanings and pretend pretence meanings. In this way, they are able to adopt pretence at any time and briefly during activities of everyday life. Thus, pretence might be a main part of creative episodes which are collaboratively constructed within fictional performance. Thus, the fictional narrative might be spontaneous and includes a high tone of conversation. Then, the child has to select an appropriate material with chronological sequence of events so the narrative seems to be complete with conventional opening and end. (Gillen 170)