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perception of perfectly normal children. The cause of those characteristics is children’s feeling of insecure. Bowen, 2000:
http:www.speech-language-therapy.com devel1.htm
2 Adaptive Behavior
Three years old children are able to imitate the steps of cubes building process, while for three and a half years old children;
they are able to copy the modelform of cubes building. Bowen, 2000: http:www.speech-language-therapy.comdevel1.htm
3 Language Behavior
Three and half years old children have more words and greater command of language than three years old children. In this
period three and a half years old, children do conversation with other children. They not only talk with adults, but also talk with
other children. Children will give better response if the adults give instruction by whispering than normal voice of tone. Even
though they still produce infantile articulation, the sound is quiet clear understandable. Bowen, 2000: http:www.speech-
language-therapy.comdevel1.htm
2. Children’s Cognitive Development
Bee 2001: 194 that playgroup children have understood about appearance and reality. He finds that two and three years old consistently
judge thing by their appearance. For example, a sheet of white paper is
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put under the red light. The two and three years old judge that the color of the paper is red.
Bee 2001: 196 their study about children’s mind. They state that three years old children think that everyone knows and experiences
the world in the same way they do. It shows an egocentrism of thinking of three years old children.
According to Bee 2001: 197, the playgroup children are able to differentiate facial expression whether other people are sad, mad, happy,
loving and angry. The playgroup children can express their own emotions.
Bee 2001: 198 adds that cognitive role in showing expression of emotion is in when and where the children should show their
expression. Moreover, they can show ‘social smile’. The children are smiling though they are not completely happy.
Bee 2001: 198 shows that the playgroup children have been able to classify things based on their groups. They can differentiate kind
of things, if the adults simplify the task. It is important if the tasks involve real things or figures. For the conversation, though the children
understand conversation, most of them are not able to solve conversation tasks consistently until age five or six.
3. Children’s Language Development
As cited by Bee 2001: 201 reports that children in playgroup period continually add words about one word every two hours
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approximately. At the age of two half years, children have vocabulary about 600 words. Then, at the age of five or six, children have
vocabulary about 15,000 words approximately. Three or four years old children pay much attention to words in whole groups such as kinds of
pets or toys. Accordingly, they usually learn about noun first in these ages.
Bee 2001: 203 states that children in playgroup period have been able to produce simple sentences since they have and understand
large vocabulary.
4. Teaching English for Young Learners
