Report ResearchN/A (N/A) Play: The Work of Lev Vygotsky. Available from: <http://www.childdevelopmentmedia.com/articles/play-the-work-of-lev-vygotsky> [Accessed 16 November 2016] "Imaginative play is a crucial component of a child's normal development." "Children have dialogues with themselves when they engage in imaginative play. Role-playing means creating a story and giving a voice to the different characters in the story. When children imitate others, they are developing a vocabulary that allows them to name and navigate the world around them. Less verbal children may talk more during imaginative play than in other settings." "Children at play are making sense of the world through a process of "inner speech" - that is, they are often talking out loud to themselves. As adults, we lose this capacity because it is not socially sanctioned." "If we really listen to children at play, we can hear the way they converse with themselves in order to make sense of the external world. Mimicking adults is often the most obvious way this process can be observed." "Vygotsky was also interested in the role of social interaction on cognitive development and argued that development first takes place socially." "Through child-centered play, children take on different roles and try out different language uses, all of which help them on the journey from being externally regulated to internally regulated in cognition. Through play, children become more competent in their language use and begin to regulate their own thought processes." " If a child is learning to complete a task, such as building a bridge with blocks, and a more competent person provides assistance, then the child is able to move into a new zone of development and problem solving. " What I can base Vygotsky's views on play within child development upon, is that children develop strongly with the involvement of communication and social engagement. The social aspect within a child's youth is very important because it allows interaction with the world.
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