Inner Speech - L2: Thinking Words in a Second LanguageAccording to Vygotsky (1986), The decreasing vocalization of egocentric speech denotes a developing abstraction from sound, the child's new faculty to "think words" instead of pronouncing them. This is the positive meaning of the sinking coefficient of egocentric speech. The downward curve indicates development toward inner speech, (p. 230) The purpose of this volume is to explore the faculty to "think words," not as the ability to mentally evoke words in the native (or first) language (LI) but as the faculty 1 to conjure up in the mind words in a second language (L2). To think words rather than to pronounce them is possible through inner speech, a function that humans develop in the course of childhood as they internalize the speech of the social group among which they grow. This means internalizing and being able to conduct inner speech in a particular linguistic code, the LI. But humans, at a very early or more mature age, may also come into contact and interact verbally with speakers of other languages, in classrooms or natural settings. The possibility thus emerges of internalizing an L2 in such a way that inner speech in the L2 might evolve. In this book, it is argued that, given certain conditions of L2 learning, it is possible for learners to attain inner speech in the L2. This book examines the distinctive nature of L2 inner speech and the processes that engender it and characterize its development. |
Contents
THINKING WORDS IN ONES FIRST LANGUAGE INNER | 27 |
Sokolovs view | 43 |
Overview of the sociocultural approach to inner speech | 49 |
THINKING WORDS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE INNER | 59 |
METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH ON INNER SPEECH | 89 |
WHAT LEARNERS SAY | 119 |
AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF THE ORIGIN NATURE | 153 |
59 | 158 |
74 | 192 |
77 | 198 |
80 | 205 |
SYNTHESIS AND DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER | 212 |
82 | 218 |
APPENDIX | 221 |
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Inner Speech - L2: Thinking Words in a Second Language Maria C.M. de Guerrero No preview available - 2010 |
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