Vygotsky and the impact of his theory

Vygotsky's theories show the essential role of social interaction in the development of cognition, as he believed strongly that community plays a important role in "making meaning." Vygotsky states cognitive development shoots from social interactions from guided learning in the zone of proximal development(ZPD) as children. Vygotsky emphasizes language in cognitive development. Be believed that thought and language are primarily separate systems always of life, producing verbal thought. Vygotsky believes that adults play an important role of children's cognitive development. The environment in which children grow up will influence how they think and what they think about. Adults convey their culture's tools of intellectual alteration that children internalize. Vygotsky believed that language develops from social interactions. Vygotsky observed language as a man’s greatest tool, a means for communicating with the outside world. To Vygotsky language plays two critical roles in cognitive development. Vygotsky differentiates between three forms of language: social speech external communication used to talk to others; private speech, which is directed to the self and serves an intellectual function; and lastly private speech goes underground, decreasing in audibility as it takes on a self-regulating function and is transformed into a still inner speech. Speech and thought become interdependent: thought becomes verbal speech becomes mimetic. When this happens, children's monologues adopted to become inner speech. The internalization of language is important as it dynamisms cognitive development. Vygotsky was the first psychologist to document private speech. He considered private speech as the transition point between social and inner speech, the moment in development where language and thought connect to form verbal thinking. Therefore, private speech, in Vygotsky's view, was the earliest inner speech. Certainly, private speech is more similar to inner speech than social speech. Private speech is 'typically defined, in contrast to social speech, as speech addressed to the self for the purpose of self-regulation.'