Dramatic Play is good for your kids

I would suggest you guys to have a dramatic play wioth your kid- to learn to master any languages.

I used to be poor in English command. As i was coming from a rural area and for sure, English is not a trendy thingy. Thru ups and downs, i have something in mind, that which may sound useful to master a language, effeciently.

Try to have a role play with a food and beverage setting. This role play is an integrated communication training, which suits the needs to improve communication skills as well as language and social etiquette skills among students. I identifyfive benefits of having this role play such as improvement of language skills, phonetic property, awareness in discourse, grammar awareness and social skill.

Students will have the opportunity to expand their language skills such as listening (while they are asking for order and feedback), reading( while reading menu and ordering list as well as flyers about the restaurant and menu), writing( while taking order and writing feedback from customers) and speaking(during the conversation with others: staffs and customers. At the end of the day, the students will be able to learn a language and acquire the skills, practically.

Also, students will have introductory of phonetic by learning some simple pronunciation and utter it practically. The students will have chance to understand what it phonetic and phonology all about at their level. The students will explore rare phonetic and phonology property compared to what they learn from home or textbook. As the learning activity is a role play, the students might be able to remember it well as it associates with food and beverage, which are things surround to them in a society.For instance, the students have the opportunities to know and pronounce the meal and written ingredient as well as their friends’ name properly.

This role play enables the students to be sensitive in choosing discourse while talking. The role play exposes the students to normal business setting ( staffs to customer while placing order), staffs to staffs( informal discourse) and understand speech act( turn talking while doing talking or placing order as well as asking information or giving feedback). This role play encourages students to build up a good rapport and promote harmony in conversation too. Written and spoken discourse are introduced to the students, clearly, in this role play with the teachers become their facilitators.

The role play also empowers the students about the usage of grammar in context. Basic sentence structure while speaking( placing order or talking to friends and staffs) as well as writing( while placing order, feedback as well as writing information about the restaurant and menus). The teachers, as a facilitator, will help the students to understand what is part of speech and how to construct simple sentence structure(by assuming that the teacher highlight mistake of sentences and work together with the student to correct the mistakes, practically) at the end of the role play.

The students will have chance to learn social skills such as politeness, communication skills and independent language learner.This role play will introduce the students the act of politeness, especially, while making order and interact with friends. Also, the students will learn how to have turn talking during conversation with others.What’s more, the students will be able to learn language practically and independently, as the teachers will assist and encourage the students to look for themselves what is the meaning of words, how to construct sentence, and how to ask question in order to know something.At the end of the day, the students will be able to use English or any foreign language, properly and confidently.

To Sum up,for me, the language role activity enable the students to experience how to learn a language and master it practically as the teachers become a facilitator. All of the domains of a child's development physical, social-emotional, cognitive, language and literacy are interrelated and interdependent, which are developed in this role play. The more practical a child's experiences with language and literacy the more likely he or she will have excellent result in learning a language