COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ADOLESCENTS
Keywords:
communicative competence, social and cognitive development of adolescents, Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, Vygotsky’s ZPD, MKO, imaginary audience, digital communicationAbstract
The ability of adolescents to communicate appropriately in different situations, referred to as Communication competence, is shaped under the influence of various social and cognitive factors. Multiple scholars like J. Piaget, Canale & Swain, Vygotsky and others studied those factors and proposed theories explaining the connection between the phenomena. Piaget’s cognitive development theory puts forward 4 stages of cognitive development of children. Adolescents’ cognitive skills are studied in the formal operational stage, which includes abstract thought and reasoning. Vygotsky’s Zone of proximal development, on the other hand, asserts that social setting and communication play no less essential role in the formation of communicative competence in adolescents. Today, Digital technology also has a considerable share in the formation of both social and cognitive competence as teens acquire new knowledge and skills such as using shortenings, emojis, hiding true feelings and intentions. This research paper discussed the theoretical data on the given topic, and conducted systematic analysis based on the existing studies
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