Practices of Innovative Exploration in Language Teaching: Questioning the “Stage Theory of Children’s Cognitive Development”

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Abstract

As early as 1952, the famous Swiss educational psychologist Jean Piaget had proposed the important perspective that “children’s cognitive development” is divided into stages, which children must go through in order without skipping any of them.

Keywords

Logical Thinking Concrete Object Representative System Formal Operation Hypothetical Reasoning 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Beijing Normal UniversityBeijingChina

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