CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Vygotsky, private speech is indicative of early cognitive processing and allows us to hear how children think about their own behavior and select courses of action.

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: -In 1923, Piaget published The Language and Thought of the Child. In this book he recorded his observations of children talking to themselves in classrooms and termed the idea of self-talk as “egocentric speech", which was the earliest concept of private speech.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Vygotsky, children use private speech for self-guidance and self-direction. With age, however, private speech becomes transformed into silent inner speech or verbal thought. The origin of private speech is traced to social interaction between the child and more mature members of society.