Many parents noticed that their children always "talk to themselves" when doing things themselves.
For example, "I'm going to get my little duck."
"Strange, how could this happen?"
"What should I do? It doesn't matter, let me set it up."
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Many parents are curious about why their children talk to themselves when they are alone. Is there any problem? Actually, it is not. is a normal manifestation in the development of children's language, and is called the internal speech transition stage.
Internal speech refers to the individual's self-question and self-answer and silent speech activities when thinking. It is a high-level form of speech, with two characteristics: concealment and simplicity.
Internal speech is generated based on external speech, is closely related to abstract logical thinking , and has the function of conscious analysis, synthesis and self-regulation. Children's internal speech is gradually produced on the basis of the development of external speech to a certain stage.
Young children have not yet produced internal speech.
generally believes that around 6 years old is the period of internal speech formation, but at this time, the internal speech level of children is still very low, and they are often accompanied by self-talk - a transitional form in the transformation from external speech to internal speech. Self-talking has both the function of communicating external language and the function of self-regulating internal language.
research shows that the proportion of game speech and problem speech changes with the age of children. Children aged 3 to 5 have more game speech, and the proportion of problem speech in children aged 5 to 7 has gradually increased.
As children grow older and their cognitive level improves, the self-regulation function of self-talking is gradually replaced by internal speech.
Therefore, from an ontogenetic perspective, internal speech is the result of external speech internalization.
