TTLV: Vygotsky's views on language and thinking in children through the work "Thinking and Speech"

MASTER'S THESIS INFORMATION

1. Student's full name:Nguyen Bao Trung    

2. Gender: Male

3. Date of birth: May 23, 1985

4. Place of birth: Thai Binh

5. Student recognition decision No. 2415/2015/QD-XHNV-SDH dated October 13, 2015 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in training process: no

7. Thesis topic name:Vygotsky's views on language and thinking in children through the work "Thinking and Speech"

8. Major: Psychology Code: 60.31.04.01

9. Scientific instructor:Assoc.Prof.Dr. Truong Thi Khanh Ha, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.

10. Summary of thesis results:

Identifying Vygotsky's scientific research methodology as being based on the philosophical foundation of Marx's historical dialectical materialism, Vygotsky found a methodological basis for the study of linguistic phenomena in children. Vygotsky identified a very valuable research method: word-meaning analysis. The experiments Vygotsky and his colleagues conducted not only helped support the scientific research process on linguistic phenomena such as thinking and speaking, concept formation in children, but also had practical applications in education and social interaction.

The work also shows many of Vygotsky's limitations, typically his failure to properly understand the ideas of other scientists, such as Piaget, Freud and other linguists and psychologists, leading to many of his conclusions being inaccurate. Vygotsky's thinking and arguments in this work have many contradictions and are unreasonable.

11. Practical application:

The research results of the thesis are a useful reference for studies on Vygotsky's views on thinking and language in particular, as well as on typical scientific research methodology in activity psychology in general.

12. Further research directions:

If we have the conditions and time, we will research the topic to further develop Vygotsky's ideological analysis of linguistic and cognitive phenomena, comparing it with the views of his contemporaries and current achievements in psychological science and interdisciplinary fields.

13. Published works related to the thesis:

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: Nuyen Bao Trung 2. Sex: Male

3. Date of birth: 23^thMay 1985 4. Place of birth: Thai Binh

5. Admission decision number: 2415/2015/QD-XHNV-SĐ date October 13, 2015 issued by Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University

6. Changes in academic process:

7. Official thesis title: Vygotsky's opinions about language and thinking in children in his work “Thinking and Speech”.

8. Major: Psychology Code: 60.31.04.01

9. Supervisors: Asssoc.Prof. Ph.D. Truong Thi Khanh

10. Summary of the thesis's findings:

Determining Vygotsky's methodology of scientific research is based on the philosophical grounds of Marx's dialectical and historical materialism. Vygotsky has found a very useful methodological basis for the studies of linguistic and cognitive phenomena in children. He has also identified a very valuable research method for the study of thinking and speech in children: word-meaning analysis or what he called “unit analysis”. Experiments conducted by Vygotsky and his collaborators not only help to support the scientific study of linguistic phenomena such as thinking and speech, or concept formation processes in children, but they have also many practical applications in education and psychology.

The results from investigation this Vygotsky's important work also shows Vygotsky's limitations, for example, his understanding about the thoughts and archives of other scientists (Piaget, Freud, and other linguists and psychologists) is not quite right. Some of his comments about their thoughts are not correct, even in Vygotsky's thinking and reasoning in this work contain many contradictions.

11. Practical applicability:

Research results of the thesis is a useful reference for the students or researchers interested in Vygotsky's ideas about language and thinking in particular, and about typical methodology of activity theory in psychology in general.

12. Further research directions:

If there are terms and conditions of time, we will research the thesis more deeply with Vygotsky's insights about many other linguistic and cognitive phenomena, in a comparative study with references to the ideas of many other scientists in his time and other contemporary experts in the field of psychology and other disciplines today.

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