ith Piaget’s thoughts and findings. Isaacs (1930), through his studies and observations of children in a small experimental school, noticed an extremely large amount of socialization taking place between the students of this age bracket. He also noted that the use of egocentric speech was found only in rare instances (Allyn & Bacon). This was supported by the findings of McCarthy (1930), who found that egocentric speech was only noticed in one out of every twenty subjects in his study of children aged between 18 and 54 months.
             Vygotsky also made findings that were in conflict with Piaget. Vygotsky (1934) “founded a theory which held that private speech performed a vital, positive function in a child’s development (Allyn & Bacon). Piaget’s theory of 1926, illustrated a converse association between egocentric speech and social communication. This is represented in Figure 2.
             Piaget’s theory a converse association between egocentric and social speech.
             Vygotsky’s beliefs were somewhat different to that of Piaget. “Vygotsky believed that private speech emerged out of social speech until the private speech peeked” (Allyn & Bacon). This can
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