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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Private speech: evidence for second language learning strategies during the ‘silent’ period
Contributor:
Saville-Troike, Muriel
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1988
Published in:
Journal of Child Language, 15 (1988) 3, Seite 567-590
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0305000900012575
ISSN:
1469-7602;
0305-0009
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
ABSTRACTThis study focuses on children who go through a ‘silent’ period early in the course of second language development, during which they largely cease verbal communication with speakers of the second language (English). Video recordings with radio microphones under natural conditions revealed that most of these children engaged in extensive private speech, which they were found to use for a variety of intrapersonal learning strategies, including (1) repetition of others' utterances, (2) recall and practice, (3) creation of new linguistic forms, (4) paradigmatic substitution and syntagmatic expansion, and (5) rehearsal for overt social performance. Quantity and quality of private speech was related not only to the children's level of cognitive development and the difficulty of the learning task (confirming previous research), but also to the children's social orientation and learning style, and to the domain of knowledge (language) that was being acquired.