Abstract

MOTA DE CABRERA, Carmen  and  VILLALOBOS, José. The socio-cultural aspect of thought and language: the vygotskyan vision. Educere [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.38, pp.411-418. ISSN 1316-4910.

A basic premise of the vygotskyan theory is that every form of human mental activity of superior order derives from social and cultural contexts, and since these mental processes are adjustable, it is shared by the members of that context. According to Vygotsky ’s socio-cultural theory, knowledge is a deeply social phenomenon and this phenomenon molds the ways a person has available to interpret and think about the world. Language plays an important role in a socially educated mind during this experience because it is our first way of mental contact and communication with others and represents an indispensable tool for thinking. Considering that language represents a very important bridge between the socio-cultural world and the individual ’s mental functioning, Vygotsky qualified language acquisition as the cornerstone of children ’s cognositive development

Keywords : thinking; language; socio-cultural theory; Vygotsky.

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