Problemas metodológicos y conceptuales en el estudio de la función autorreguladora del habla

Abstract

From a vygotskian view, we review the development of research studies on the self-regulating function children's egocentric speech. Original reseach methodology and conceptual support are discussed. Also, more recent contributions both with new empirical perspective or conceptual developments, put forth and discussed. Finally, we expose the need to accept the new outlines in the selection of tasks to register spontaneous talking, and to analyze the process of socio-genesis. We conclude by identifying two influential factors (task difficulty and perception of social context) in the production of self-regulatory egocentric speech, and in the functioning of verbal self-regulation differentiating between activator system, derivated from aspects of impulse, and control system, associated with the mediational and semiotic features of speech.