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"Should I Let Them Talk?": Private Speech and Task Performance among Preschool Children with and without Behavior Problems
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Winsler, Adam; Manfra, Louis; Diaz, Rafael M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
Preschool and kindergarten teachers must make decisions everyday about how much to allow their children to talk out loud to themselves during various classroom activities. The present study examines the effects of children's private speech use on task performance for a group of behaviorally at-risk children and a group of control children during a…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Self-Regulatory Functions of Children's Private Speech: A Critical Analysis of Recent Challenges to Vygotsky's Theory.
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Frauenglass, Marni H.; Diaz, Rafael M. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Recent empirical findings have challenged Vygotsky's theory regarding the self-regulatory functions of children's private speech. This study hypothesized that semantic tasks and instructions to talk out loud would maximize private speech production. Results supported Vygotsky's notion that private speech does not disappear with age but "goes…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education, Language Patterns