The use of RPG as a teaching-pedagogical proposal to work on children’s language delay

Abstract

The Role-Playing Game (RPG), translated as “character role-playing game”, aims to interpret characters within a pre-established scenario, stimulating creativity and motivating the cognitive and linguistic development of its players, as it is a game that requires compliance with rules and interaction between participants. This time, we thought about using RPG as a didactic-pedagogical proposal to be used in favor of children's linguistic development and to work on Child Language Development Delay (ADL), since this delay affects linguistic and cognitive development. of children, since ADL is considered a dysfunction directly related to the child's linguistic acquisition and development, encompassing the progressive development considered ideal for each age of the child, evolution of their linguistic domains, cognitive capacity, acquisition of specific phonemes for each age, among other factors. The game was designed for children aged between 4 and 5 years old, aiming to combat children's language delay, encourage children's creativity and imagination, as well as develop aspects linked to their cognition, which directly influence language aspects, aiming to sharpen the process of creating narratives, which are elaborated using the memory and sequencing of facts that are socialized among the players. To carry out this article, theoretical-methodological support was sought in the concepts of Vygotsky (1993); Del Ré (2006); Scarpa (2001); Koch and Cunha-Lima (2007); Pilati (2017); Lucena and Sabini (2005). In order to be able to develop the pedagogical game, according to the children's socio-school needs, aiming to encourage social interaction, the maturation of linguistic elements, through educational games, and providing practical possibilities for professionals in the field to work on the dynamics of teaching-learning in the language acquisition process.