
Enhancing English Vocabularies through Language Play in Children Movies
Author(s) -
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna,
Meita Lukitawati Sujatna
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of learning and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2164-4063
DOI - 10.5296/ijld.v2i5.2280
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , vocabulary , language acquisition , mathematics education , philosophy
Everybody either a child or an adult, likes playing. Playing is a fun activity. For children, watching movies is one of the fun activities. Learning languages can also be a fun activity by using language play. Language play can help the children in enhancing their ability in improving their vocabularies. In children movies, we usually found language play. The language play forms in children movies can be found both phonologically and morphologically forms. This article tries to explore the language play forms through children movies to support the children ability in enhancing their English vocabularies.