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2003-01-01

Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play

Estimulación del desarrollo de las competencias comunicativas orales de los niños a través del juego

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Teaching English to children, primary school, educational games, second language acquisition, learning ability (en)
Enseñanza de inglés a niños, escuela primaria, juegos educativos, adquisición de una segunda lengua, habilidad de aprendizaje (es)

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When children start to learn a foreign language they already have some communicative competence in their mother tongue. Thus a classroom research project was carried out in order to study the development of children's competence in communicating in other languages. The main theme explored was if it was possible to help kids acquire and develop their competence in the new code through the use of play activities. The concepts related to competences, play and some children's characteristics when learning a second language will be presented in this article. Also, the results of the implementation of play activities in the classroom as well as some pedagogical implications will be analyzed as a means to promote improvement in the foreign language teaching-learning process.

Cuando los niños empiezan el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera ya poseen alguna competencia comunicativa en su lengua materna. Este proyecto de investigación en el aula busca promover esta competencia para comunicarse en otras lenguas. El propósito fundamental de esta investigación fue explorar si era posible ayudar a los estudiantes a adquirir y desarrollar su competencia en este nuevo código, mediante la implementación de actividades lúdicas. En este artículo se presentarán los conceptos de competencias, lúdica y algunas de las características de los niños en el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua. También se presentarán los resultados que surgieron a partir de la implementación de las actividades lúdicas y se mencionarán algunas implicaciones pedagógicas que promueven el mejoramiento del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera.

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Castrillón, O. L. (2003). Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 4(1), 58–64. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230

ACM

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Castrillón, O.L. 2003. Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development. 4, 1 (Jan. 2003), 58–64.

ACS

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Castrillón, O. L. Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play. Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev. 2003, 4, 58-64.

ABNT

CASTRILLÓN, O. L. Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 58–64, 2003. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230. Acesso em: 25 dec. 2025.

Chicago

Castrillón, Olga Lucía. 2003. “Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development 4 (1):58-64. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230.

Harvard

Castrillón, O. L. (2003) “Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play”, Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 4(1), pp. 58–64. Available at: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230 (Accessed: 25 December 2025).

IEEE

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O. L. Castrillón, “Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play”, Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 58–64, Jan. 2003.

MLA

Castrillón, O. L. “Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2003, pp. 58-64, https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230.

Turabian

Castrillón, Olga Lucía. “Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 58–64. Accessed December 25, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230.

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Castrillón OL. Encouraging the Development of Children’s Oral Communicative Competences through Play. Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev. [Internet]. 2003 Jan. 1 [cited 2025 Dec. 25];4(1):58-64. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11230

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