Differences of kindergarten children's linguistic picture of the world: focus on Hungary, Russia, and Laos.

ABSTRACT: Three-to-five-year-old Laotian kindergarten children, native speakers of the Lao language were investigated in order to map the peculiarities of their picture of the world through their word associations. Results were contrasted to a previous comparative study of Hungarian and Russian kindergarteners of the same age aiming at revealing linguistic and cultural differences and similarities in this age group in the three aforementioned countries. Theories and methods of the Moscow School of Psycholinguistics were utilized for the cross-cultural comparison based on a Vygotskian cultural-historical approach, on Leontiev's speech activity theory, on the concept of verbal consciousness (linguistic picture of the world) and on the association experiment. A pedagogical perspective was incorporated

SUBMITTER: Lenart I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7895709 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature