COGNITION AND METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS AS SINE QUIBUS NON FOR SOLVING VERBAL PROBLEMS

• Authors: Solesa-Grijak Djurdja
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The well-known problem concerning the relation between cognitive and language development (discussed particularly by Piaget and Vygotsky) can be applied to child's ability of solving verbal problems as well. Verbal problems, among other types, include riddles as language expressions and interesting games preferred by young children. This paper presents research of influence of meta-linguistic awareness and cognition on success in solving riddles as verbal problems. The participants were 150 children age four, five and six. Children were given task of conservation as indicator of their cognitive development and tasks for awareness of words as one of meta-linguistic abilities. Results show that the youngest participants are able to solve only riddles with associations. The oldest children manage to solve simple (concrete) metaphors. Research concluded that development of language and development of cognition are parallel.

Keywords

EN

AWARENESS OF WORDS; CHILDREN; COGNITION; META-LINGUISTIC; VERBAL PROBLEMS

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Solesa-Grijak Djurdja

• Djurdja Solesa-Grijak, State University in Novi Pazar, Vuka Karadzica 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA095725