Thoughts and Speech in Adults:Vygotsky believed that inner speech plays and important role in adult thought.
Inner speech is an internal dialogue that is often abbreviated and fragmentary, with the meaning of complex thoughts captured in very few words.
The relationship between thought and inner speech. Inner speech is thought connected by words.
Ex. Looking for a book in a database and you are not familiar. Your cognitive mind asks "How do I get here" and then "Pick it" as you find the book until the database becomes familiar and inner speech no longer needed.
Thoughts and speech in Children:In vygotsky’s theory much of the development of thinking is the development of inner speech.
This process goes through 4 stages
Fist stage - 2yrs thought is nonverbal and speech is nonconceptual and has no relations with thought and speech.
Second stage- thought and speech begin to merge with the development of language at age 2yrs.
Third stage- the role of speech in directing thoughts and behavior begins to emerge as children exhibit egocentric speech or private speech that voices what children are thinking or doing a s as a sign of maturation.
Fourth stage- the development of inner speech, the egocentric speech, that was overt becomes covert and abbreviated becoming inner speech.