The children with mental retardation have generally lots of problems in language development. Vocabulary ability is an important developmental stage to learn social language fluently. The purpose of this study was to illustrate the effects on the teac...
The children with mental retardation have generally lots of problems in language development. Vocabulary ability is an important developmental stage to learn social language fluently. The purpose of this study was to illustrate the effects on the teaching with role-play to improve vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation. The detail purposes are as followings;
First, to illustrate the effect on teaching with role-play to improve receptive vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation.
Second, to illustrate the effect on teaching with role-play to improve expressive vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation.
Three children with mental retardation who are aged about four years old with MA were participated for this study. The sixteen programs for teaching with role-play were implemented for eight weeks. Pre-testing, intervention program and the post-testing was utilized. The results of this study were that (a) the teaching with role-play was effective to improve receptive vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation; and (b) the teaching with role-play was effective to improve expressive vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation. Therefore, this study concluded that the teaching with role-play was effective to improve receptive and expressive vocabulary ability for children with mental retardation.