Piaget‟s Egocentrism and Language Learning: Language Egocentrism (LE) and Language Differentiation (LD)
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Piaget’s theory, which is at the center of cognitive approach and major theoretical foundation in terms of the intelligent development, explains children’s language learning by using four stages of cognitive development. For instance, Piaget maintains that Egocentrism is related to language learning as an inner speech and can affect on differentiation in cognitive development. This paper is to focus on the important educational foundation and information, which can prove how Language Egocentrism (LE) and Language Differentiation (LD) have an influence on native and second language acquisition for young children (two to seven years old), and what characteristics can be included in the subcategories of LE and LD.
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