Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-regulation

by Edited by Adam Winsler , Charles Fernyhough , Ignacio Montero

• ISBN13: 9780521866071
• ISBN10: 0521866073
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Seventy-five years after Vygotsky's death, scholarship exploring developmental relations between language and thought continues to be strong. This timely edited volume compiles contributions from international leaders in the field on the roles of language and private speech (self-talk) in the development of self-regulation and executive functioning in children and adults. New theoretical insights, empirical research, and potential clinical and educational applications of scholarship on private speech are presented. Relevant for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of psychology, education, linguistics, and cognitive science, this text will be an essential volume for those interested in the interface between language, cognition, and behavior, and the development of regulatory or cognitive control over behavior.

Table of Contents

Preface Laura Berk

Introduction/Overview Adam Winsler

Overview, Theoretical, and Biological Foundations

Still talking to ourselves after all these years: a review of current research on private speech

Dialogic thinking

The executive functions of language in preschool children

The neuropsychology of convert and overt speech: implications for the study of private speech in children and adults

Language, Communication, Social Cognition and Awareness

Talking and thinking: the role of speech in social understanding

Private speech and theory of mind: evidence for developing functional relations

Development of communicative competence through private and inner speech

Private speech in the framework of referential communication Conchi

Preschool children's awareness and theory of speech

Younger children's knowledge about overt and covert private speech

Symbols and Tools Throughout the Lifespan

Private pointing and private speech: development of executive function

Symbols as tools in the development of executive function

On the persistence of private speech: empirical and theoretical considerations

Private speech beyond childhood. testing the developmental hypothesis

Motivational and Educational Applications

Private speech and motivation: the role of language in a sociocultural account of motivational processes

Creativity and private speech in young children

Early childhood teacher's awareness, beliefs, and practices toward children's private speech

Afterword

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