Question

Role of language in children's intellectual development and learning

Answer 1

Both the culture and the child's experiences are necessary to understand children's cognitive development and social development.

Language is one of the most important psychological tools that can affect a child’s intellectual development. Social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition and intellect and therefore, language becomes an important parameter for communication.

Children tend to use language in three different stages - as an essential factor for communication and social speech; then as egocentric or private speech to control their own thinking; and the last stage is language development where these use verbal thoughts to guide what they are thinking and their actions.

Language is known to help children to think about mental abilities, behaviors and is the foundation for all higher cognitive processes including controlled attention, deliberate memorization, recall categorization, planning problem solving, abstract reasoning and self-reflection.