GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
VYGOTSKY
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Question
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Language is the main means by which adults transmit info to children.
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Language is a powerful tool of intellectual adaptation.
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Language is an accelerator to thinking and understanding.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vygotsky viewed language as an essential tool for communication and that culture and behaviour was understood through language. Vygotsky also highlighted the critical role that language plays in cognitive development. Vygotsky’s theory says that social interactions help children develop their ability to use language.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vygotsky’s account of speech internalization is premised on the existence of three different forms of speech activity: ‘external speech’ (or ‘social speech’), ‘egocentric speech’ (or ‘private speech’) and ‘inner speech’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lev Vygotsky was a seminal Russian psychologist best known for his sociocultural theory. He believed that social interaction plays a critical role in children’s learning-a continuous process that is profoundly influenced by culture.
Detailed explanation-4: -Vygotsky (1978, 1986) believed that language was a psychological tool and that the usage of this tool invariably led to a series of inner or mental transformations such as the development of higher thought and concept development.
Detailed explanation-5: -Vygotsky claimed that we are born with four ‘elementary mental functions’ : Attention, Sensation, Perception, and Memory. It is our social and cultural environment that allows us to use these elementary skills to develop and finally gain ‘higher mental functions. ‘