The purpose of this study was to investigate correlation between children's creativity level and 7 strategies of paralinguistic cues, descriptions of action, repetition, semantic ties, calls for attention, directions, and tags used by children who did...
The purpose of this study was to investigate correlation between children's creativity level and 7 strategies of paralinguistic cues, descriptions of action, repetition, semantic ties, calls for attention, directions, and tags used by children who did social pretend play.
The subjects of this study were 54 children from a kindergarten attached to S elementary school located in Suwon city, Kyungi Province. The final subjects were 20 selected children including 10 children who were high on creativity level and 10 children who were low on creativity level among 50 children through creativity test and they were asked to have social pretend play. The findings of this study as below:
First, children who were high on creativity level used descriptions of acting the most as they're doing social pretend play whereas children who were low on creativity level used paralinguistic cues the most. Children who were high on creativity level used directives more often than children who were low on creativity level, while the latter used calls for attention more often than the former. Both of them used tags the least.
Second, boys and girls, all of them used paralinguistic cues the most and tags the least. Accordingly, there's no significant difference by gender.
The above mentioned findings suggested that there's a significant difference according to children's creativity level to use mutual understanding strategy while they were doing social pretend play. However, there's no significant difference by gender.