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Inner Speech - L2 - Thinking Words in a Second Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Inner Speech - L2 - Thinking Words in a Second Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: Educational Linguistics, 6
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According 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.
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