What is it about?
Private speech is an important concept within a Vygotskian sociocultural approach to language learning. However, this article takes a somewhat different perspective in this concept by showing how private speech can also be understood as social speech.
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Why is it important?
The analysis shows in detail how private speech can be identified and gives a fuller picture of what it may be used to accomplish within the talk of a learner of a second language.
Perspectives
I published this article in this journal because I'm hoping that it will be read and responded to by people who take a sociocultural approach to language learning.
Dr Eric Hauser
University of Electro-Communications
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This page is a summary of: Private Speech as Social Action, Language and Sociocultural Theory, July 2015, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/lst.v2i2.26615.
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