Contributions Of The Counting Jingles To Children In Plays From Teachers' Perspectives

The counting jingle used in child play activities is the important part of children's play as it is the first ice-breaking activity to start the communication, interaction and increase the motivation among the children. The study was conducted to analyze the contributions of some existing counting jingles compiled in the plays uttered by the children in different parts of Turkey on the basis of preschool teachers' views. The research had two stages: In the first step, more than 100 counting jingles belonging to different districts in Turkey were compiled by 120 preschool teachers by interview (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).