They are able to start seeing from different points of view not only their own lives. At the age of 7, though, they demonstrate an ‘intellectual revolution’ when they start thinking in a more logical way.Ĭhildren at 7-8 are at what he called the concrete operational stage of cognitive development, a critical turning point as it marks the beginning of logical or operational thinking, when the child starts working things out ‘in the head’. They have an idea of past, present and future but focused on their present. When children are 7-8, she also mentions they start to self-correct and to be able to convey meaning only though writing itself – when at school, obviously.Īs per Pinter (2011:9) explaining Piaget’s theory, at 6-7 years of age, children are at their pre-operational stage of cognitive development, meaning that they are already able to understand concepts like counting, classifying according to similarity. Writing is gradually taught and improved together with their abilities to remember the words and their spelling. She also describes them regarding their writing ability which at this age is hoped by the use of drawings. Their thinking develops in knowledge and intellectual skills, but not yet able to use meta-language, the ability to use language, to describe language. I have been working on teaching young learners a lot in these past months, mostly due to a new project we are implementing in our school, so I really thought about sharing some of the views I have been studying which definitely impact the teaching of these students.Īccording to McKay (2006:6-14) children are in constant gradual development, continuing to learn through concrete experience, what can be called ‘learn through doing’.
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