The development of referential communication: Improving message accuracy by coordinating private speech with peer questioning |
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| Authors: | Conchi San Martín Ignacio Montero M Isabel Navarro Barbara Biglia |
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| Institution: | 1. Universitat de Barcelona, Dpt. Psicologia Bàsica, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 171, Barcelona 08035, Spain;2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Dpto. Psicología Social y Metodología. Calle Ivan Pavlov 6 (Campus Cantoblanco), Madrid 28049, Spain;3. Independent researcher, Spain;4. Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Dpt. Pedagogia. Carretera de Valls s/n, Tarragona 43007, Spain |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we examine the development of referential communicative regulation, incorporating the Vygotskian notion of private speech. From this perspective, private speech may serve a regulatory role when the child speaker is focused on what to say when speaking to others. In a longitudinal study carried out with 10 pairs of children with a mean age of 4.5, 6.5, and 8.5 years, we analyzed the relationship between the capacity of the child in the speaker role to modify messages, increasing their informative quality, the presence of private speech embedded in the messages, and the emergence of prior questions by the child in the listener role aimed at clarifying some aspect of the message. We found that the number of modified messages, the mean frequency of private speech in the messages, and the number of peer's questions all increase with age. Only in the case of the modified messages by the speaker did we find a triple interaction among age, use of private speech, and the presence of peer's questions. At 8.5 years, the presence of peer's questions and subsequent use of private speech appeared together for the majority of the modified messages. This was not the case at the ages 4.5 or 6.5. In line with Vygotsky's theses, private speech would play an important role to allow communicators to reflect on the quality of their communicative utterances, and to modify and improve them accordingly. In this process, the capacity to improve message accuracy by coordinating private speech with peer questioning clearly emerges with age. |
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| Keywords: | Private speech Vygotsky Referential communication |
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