Acquisition and Play

Acquisition and Play

1. Key Points

   • Play promotes turn-taking
   • Caregivers can use play to aid expansion
   • Play aids social development
   • links to the Social Interactionist Theory

2. Vygotsky's Theory of Play

   • play aids cognitive and social development
   • children use 'pivots' (props) to support language in play
   • as children progress the are more able to use their imaginations

3. Catherine Garvey and Play

   • Garvey studied pairs of children in play
   • she found that they adopt roles, identities and story lines
   • this theory also fills out Haliday's imaginative play function
   • children practice social conventions and day to day language