DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

(BE102)

ENGLISH COMMUNICATION AND LITERACY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

EDUCATION

(HCE3013)

ASSESMENT TYPE:

REPORT WRITING

NAME : SITI NUR AMILA BINTI ISMAIL (PTM160705070)

NORAISHAH BINTI WARISAN (PTM160705052)

SECTION :1

LECTURER NAME : MISS SITI NUR SAADAH SAADUN

SUBMISSION DATE : 1 MARCH 2018

 IMPROVE LANGUAGE WITH PLAY AND FUN LEARNING IN EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

By
Noraishah Warisan
Siti Nur Amila Ismail
Student, Diploma In Early Childhood Education,
College Poly-Tech Mara Kota Bharu, Kelantan

INTRODUCTION

Playing is the key in human life. Humans need a variety of skills to life in society. For example to
create a positive attitude, children need to have eye and hand coordination skills. Additionally,
children should engage in communities and overcome conflicts in life.

…Play is a satisfaction to decrease herders or conflict even does not have a particular purpose. when
the child is allowed to play they can destroy the pressure or conflict.
Freud (1908)

Teaching and learning through play sustains children`s attention span and develops their reading
skills. Play provide more opportunity for children to talk using varied words. Undoubtedly, play has
significant advantages for children that include fostering reading ability and sustaining their interest in
reading and literacy.

DEFINITION OF PLAY

Play is an activity that can provide fun in life. In fact, play also affects every person's emotions.
For example the child can release pressure through the playing process. Therefore, play can provide
fun in the life of a child. That a lots of traditional game that can be performed during the playing
process such as congkak and galah panjang.

…Play is a fundamental feature that helps children improve their development and also acquire this
experience that call assimilation and accomadation. Assimilation is the response by imitating and
interacting with the environment. Accomadation integrating action and physical action.
Jean Piaget (1962)
 Piaget's (1936) theory of cognitive development explains how a child constructs a mental model
of the world. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait, and regarded cognitive
development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the
environment. Jean Piaget (1952; see also Wadsworth, 2004) viewed intellectual growth as a process
of adaptation (adjustment) to the world. This happens through assimilation which is using an existing
schema to deal with a new object or situation. Accommodation happens when the existing schema
(knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.

THE IMPORTANT OF PLAY

Play is crucial for developing children’s communication skills. Play can improve language for
children and can increase literacy. Through play children learn to make and practise new sounds.
They try out new vocabulary, on their own or with friends, and exercise their imagination through
storytelling. Play is learning. Play nurtures development and fulfils a baby’s inborn need to learn. Play
takes many forms, from shaking a rattle to peek-a-boo to hide-and-seek. Play can be done by a child
alone, with another child, in a group or with an adult.

However, play also teaches adults patience and understanding. If you do choose to join in your
child’s play make sure that you do not try to take it over and force incorporation of your ultimate
learning objectives into their play. Structured adult-led activities have their time and place but
remember to allow for time for children to control and decide their own play. In fact, play is fun.
Learning to play well, both by themselves and with others, sets children up to be contented and
sociable.

… Freud regarded play as the means by which the child accomplishes his first great cultural and
psychological achievements; through play he expresses himself.
Freud (1908)

If we wish to understand our child, we need to understand his play. This is true even for an infant
whose play consists of nothing more than smiling at his mother, as she smiles at him. Freud also noted
how much and how well children express their thoughts and feelings through play. These are
sometimes feelings that the child himself would remain ignorant of, or overwhelmed by, if he did not
deal with them by acting them out in play fantasy.
TYPES OF PLAY

Practice play needs children to repeat something to improve their skills as it is through a session of
this type of training game. Practice play needs mentally and physically able to improve mental skills.
Usually this skills will improve in sports activities and games. This game is happening continuously
in human life. Children's games can help improve their motor skills especially the coordination of the
eye and the toe.

This game is called as Dramatic Play. Children will try to play certain characters they love or
transform themselves as a specific object. For example role plays are suitable for children aged
between 2 to 6 years, this game improves imagination and understanding of the environment. It also
helps to improve the social skills and self-confidence of children.

Social games are social interactions of children with peers. When children play with peers it's a
social game activity. Children learn to interact and communicate with each other. In the event of an
accident or a child's quarrel will try to help their friend and with this experience they will learn to
understand each other.

CONCLUSION

To recapitulate, learning through play is a term used in education and psychologyto describe how a
child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and
cognitive skills, emotionally, and gain the self confidence required to engage in new experiences and
environments. Key ways that young children learn include playing, being with people, being active,
exploring and new experiences.
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