Research on the Development of Written Language Functions in Infants and Young Children

Author: Mo Lei / Li Huijian / Li Li
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The study of the formation of individual psychological functions has always been a major topic of significant attention and effort in fields such as education, psychology, and philosophy. Based on summarizing various theories and extensive research on the development of psychological functions in infants and toddlers by predecessors, combined with our over a decade of case studies and nearly eight years of educational experimental research, we have proposed the "Growth Theory" of the development of psychological functions in infants and toddlers. We believe that the formation of individual psychological functions is an ongoing process of internalizing external activities. Infants and toddlers need guidance from adults during the critical period of function formation to interact with carriers in order to develop corresponding functions. Therefore, the formation of psychological functions in infants and toddlers requires three fundamental conditions: the critical period, function carriers, and interaction. Based on the above analysis, we propose the basic approach for studying the development of psychological functions in infants and toddlers: First, study the critical period for function formation, i.e., explore the critical period and propose critical theories; second, study the carrier issues of various functions, propose the optimal carriers for various functions and carrier theories; third, study the ways of individual-carrier interaction during the formation of various functions, and propose learning theories for infants and toddlers. Following this approach, we have conducted a series of studies on the formation of various main functions in infants and toddlers during the process of socialization, preparing to write a series of specialized books. This work is one of them, primarily based on the research findings on the formation of written language functions in infants and toddlers.