ВЪЗПРОИЗВОДСТВОТО НА НАБЛЮДАВАНИТЕ ДЕЙСТВИЯ ОТ ДЕЦА МЕДИАТОР НА ВРЪЗКАТА МЕЖДУ ДВИГАТЕЛНИТЕ ПОСТИЖЕНИЯ И ОВЛАДЯВАНЕТО НА ЕЗИКА
CHILDREN’S REPRODUCTION OF OBSERVED ACTIONS AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN MOTOR ACHIEVEMENTS AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Summary/Abstract: The transition between crawling to walking sets a stage for changes in different aspects of child development: increased possibilities for exploration, for active social learning, action understanding and intense language acquisition. The current study investigated the role of imitation of demonstrated actions by 10–12-month-old infants as mediator between their motor and language achievement. The participants - 117 infants with mean age (47,8 weeks) have been observed by experts at their home settings. Their behaviour was assessed through different tasks: motor, linguistic as well as those which required reproduction of different actions they observed. The results revealed that imitation of different actions through self-locomotion does significantly but partially mediate the indirect effect of gross motor skills on receptive as well as on expressive language. The imitation of different actions assumed the active social learning of infants, their participation in shared attention with parent, in intention understanding, and in mutual coordination. The involvement of child in joint actions with parent stimulates language acquisition and advances the infants’ means-end understanding toward higher order goals.

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