sentence: Language starts as a tool external to the child used for social interaction.
sentences_after: Initially, self-talk is very much a tool of social interaction and this tapers to negligible levels when the child is alone. Because it gets internalized, self-talk is no longer present when the child starts school. Though nowadays children start at kindergarten quite early, and so it should be possible to observe self-talk there.
concept_name: language
headings: Lev Vygotsky 'Thought and Language'
categories: Psychologists Russian scientists