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Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China
Spatial language is an important predictor of spatial skills and might be inspired by peer interaction and goal-oriented building behaviors during block play. The present study investigated the frequency, type and level of children’s spatial language during block play and their associations with the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7940534/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33708154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.568638 |
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author | Yang, Xiaoli Pan, Yuejuan |
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description | Spatial language is an important predictor of spatial skills and might be inspired by peer interaction and goal-oriented building behaviors during block play. The present study investigated the frequency, type and level of children’s spatial language during block play and their associations with the level of block play by observing 228 young children in classrooms equipped with unit blocks and allowing free play on a daily basis. The findings showed that during block play, young children used more words about spatial locations, deictic terms, dimensions, and shapes and fewer words about spatial features or properties and spatial orientations or transformations. Spatial locations were used most frequently, and young children tended to use vertical location words to represent the corresponding location. Most young children used gestures in conjunction with spatial deictic terms. Among shape words, tetragon words were frequently used, and the representation of spatial shapes showed alternatives, collective tendencies and gender differences. The use of spatial language during the play process had a significant positive correlation with age, the construction structure, and form of block building. |
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spelling | pubmed-79405342021-03-10 Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China Yang, Xiaoli Pan, Yuejuan Front Psychol Psychology Spatial language is an important predictor of spatial skills and might be inspired by peer interaction and goal-oriented building behaviors during block play. The present study investigated the frequency, type and level of children’s spatial language during block play and their associations with the level of block play by observing 228 young children in classrooms equipped with unit blocks and allowing free play on a daily basis. The findings showed that during block play, young children used more words about spatial locations, deictic terms, dimensions, and shapes and fewer words about spatial features or properties and spatial orientations or transformations. Spatial locations were used most frequently, and young children tended to use vertical location words to represent the corresponding location. Most young children used gestures in conjunction with spatial deictic terms. Among shape words, tetragon words were frequently used, and the representation of spatial shapes showed alternatives, collective tendencies and gender differences. The use of spatial language during the play process had a significant positive correlation with age, the construction structure, and form of block building. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7940534/ /pubmed/33708154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.568638 Text en Copyright © 2021 Yang and Pan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Yang, Xiaoli Pan, Yuejuan Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title | Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title_full | Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title_fullStr | Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title_short | Spatial Language of Young Children During Block Play in Kindergartens in Urban China |
title_sort | spatial language of young children during block play in kindergartens in urban china |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7940534/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33708154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.568638 |
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