CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

VYGOTSKY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mr. Jones gave his first-grade students some simple sorting and counting problems to work on. He noticed that the children, working independently, readily solved the problems, however, there was some self-talk, or “private speech.” According to Vygotsky, what is likely to happen to children’s self-talk if Mr. Jones gives the children a more challenging task to solve?
A
The amount of private speech should decrease because the children have to concentrate harder.
B
The amount of private speech should remain the same because private speech is a natural part of development.
C
The amount of private speech should increase because it facilitates problem solving through self-communication.
D
The self-talk will stop.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. ‘

Detailed explanation-2: -Vygotsky’s theory is considered to be a social constructivist approach because it emphasizes the social contexts of learning and that knowledge is mutually built and constructed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hence, from the above-mentioned points, it becomes clear that ‘private speech’ is the term used by Lev Vygotsky to describe a child’s act of speaking to herself.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, a child might be shown pennies to represent each sound in a word (e.g., three pennies for the three sounds in “man”). To master this word, the child might be asked to place a penny on the table to show each sound in a word, and finally the child might identify the sounds without the pennies.

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