The Relationship between Young Children's Language Abilities, Creativity, Play, and Storytelling

Autor/inn/en	Holmes, Robyn M.; Gardner, Brianna; Kohm, Kristen; Bant, Christine; Ciminello, Anjelica; Moedt, Kelly; Romeo, Lynn
Titel	The Relationship between Young Children's Language Abilities, Creativity, Play, and Storytelling
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 189 (2019) 2, S.244-254 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2017.1314274
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Language Skills; Creativity; Play; Story Telling; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Language Tests; Nursery Schools; Freehand Drawing; Correlation; Test of Early Language Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Kreativität; Spiel; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Language test; Sprachtest; Nursery school; Kindertagesstätte; Kindergarten; Drawing; Zeichnen; Korrelation
Abstract	This study examined the connection between young children's social play, creativity, storytelling, and language abilities. Participants were 56 primarily European American preschool children. First, to assess creativity we asked children to draw several pictures. Children created stories about their pictures during the creative process. Second, children created an original story with access to multiple ethnic family doll sets to use as props. We analysed all storytelling episodes for mean length of utterance and parts of speech. Third, we observed children's social play behaviours over 10-minute intervals recording behaviour at 1-minute intervals. Finally, we administered the Test of Early Language Development 3 to assess children's receptive and expressive language skills. Our findings revealed positive relationships between storytelling abilities and language abilities, relationships between type of play, storytelling, and language abilities, and connections between play and creativity and language and creativity. Our findings provide avenues for future research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01