Los videojuegos una herramienta digital en el proceso enseñanza - aprendizaje en los niños de preescolar

Abstract

With the advent and the increasing evolution of Information, Communication, and Technology, and the early exposure of youngsters to technology, little children have become the digital generation. With this in mind, video games are nowadays the most promising and essential strategy in the process of english teaching as a second language in early childhood Education. Video-games promotes and enhances the development of many skills such as, cognitive, communicative, reflective, behavioral, negotiation, memory, conflict resolution, creativity, social interactions, cultural and instrumental skills; in a more dynamic, attractive and creative way, more appropriate to their pre-existing digital advanced skills. The use of video games in the first stages of the English learning process is associated, not only, with lower levels of stress and anxiety, but also, with a greater interest in children for learning. Video games optimize higher behavioral, emotional, and cognitive auto-regulation levels. The use of video games as a ludic and pedagogical tool, definitively, promotes a more accurate and meaningful learning process across all areas of the early childhood core curriculum.