Browsing by Author "Kovalainen, Anu"

The aim of the study. Child learns, grows and develops in a playfull interaction with adults and other children. The aim of this study was to describe what interaction and play is like and how cognitive and language skill`s appears in interaction between toddlers. Lately study of play has been increased and importance of play in child`s development and learning has been noticed. The meaning of this study is to connect description of toddlers play and interaction to cognitive and language skill`s perspective. Research questions of this study are; 1) What is play and interaction like between toddlers in daycare before age four? 2) How cognitive and language skill`s appear in play and interaction between toddlers? Methods. The material of this study was video and BSID III -material, from Helsinki university Lasso -Taaperot project. The material was collected from children who took part of this project in capital city area, years 2013-2015. In this study there is material from 12 chidren. Analysing the video material there was found 38 different interaction situations wich was groupted in different playgategories. After that BSID III -material reults, which measures cognitive and language skill`s, were compared to qualities of playgategories. The main results. Allmost every time interaction between toddlers appeared in play, but also in situations were child was lookin others to play, or when child was constructing dialogue with others. Cognitive and language skill´s appeared very different, in different playgategories. The main result show that forexample children who play alone have different cognitive and language skill`s, but still they can`t construct play with others. It means that when educator observe childrens play, it is important to think over the reason why children play alone.