The purpose of this study was to test the proposition that children of kindergarten age who had planned opportunities for enriched sociodramatic play would demonstrate increased levels of language performance. A 35 day study employing an Applied Behavior Analysis repeated measure multiple baseline design across subjects was undertaken to experimentally determine if there was a functional relationship between enriched sociodramatic play and an increase in levels of language performance. / Treatment conditions were enriched sociodramatic play which included (a) a shared background of information, (b) ample time, space, and realistic props, and (c) play tutoring by an adult; baseline conditions were unstructured free play. Forty-eight 15 minute language samples were collected and analyzed from three subjects matched for age, I.Q., ethnic background, and economic status, Major findings were as follows: (1) Use of words which were specifically related to a theme increased for all subjects during enriched sociodramatic play. (2) Mean length of T-unit increased for all subjects during enriched sociodramatic play. (3) Use of all words increased for two out of three subjects during enriched sociodramatic play. (4) Use of words for concepts of color, shape, number, quantity, space, and time increased for two out of three subjects during enriched sociodramatic play. (5) Two subjects increased performance on measures of specific vocabulary words, mean length of T-unit, all words and concept words during enriched sociodramatic play. (6) One subject increased performance on measures of specific vocabulary words and mean length of T-unit during sociodramatic play; performance on measures of all words and concept words was inconclusive. (7) All subjects frequently used all seven functions of language during samples taken from both unstructured free play and enriched sociodramatic play; mean number of functions increased slightly for one subject and decreased slightly for two subjects during the treatment conditions. / Based on these findings, it was concluded that a functional relationship existed between sociodramatic play and language performance. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0079. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75732 |
| Contributors | LEVY, ANN KELLY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 166 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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