He believed that language is an important tool for thought and plays a key role in cognitive development. He introduced the term private speech, or self-talk. This refers to when children “think out loud”. After learning language, children engage in self-talk to help guide their activity and develop their thinking. Self-talk continues until children reach school age. Vygotsky sees private speech as a way of children learning to regulate them. Vygotsky believed that language makes thought possible and is thus the basis of consciousness. Without language his view was that human development could not exceed that of primitive sense and perception functions, characteristic of lower forms of mammalian life.
Language was also seen as the tool of culture which enables social interaction, and thus the direction of behavior and attitudes, and indeed the propagation and development of culture itself. The specific and early relationship of language and cognition can be identified through three key stages in the development of speech: social, egocentric and inner speech.
Language was also seen as the tool of culture which enables social interaction, and thus the direction of behavior and attitudes, and indeed the propagation and development of culture itself. The specific and early relationship of language and cognition can be identified through three key stages in the development of speech: social, egocentric and inner speech.
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is very important input about language Vygotsky as a tool for social interaction. complementing your contribution Vygotsky claims that language and thought are two different things but throughout the development of the child these are integrated with each other.